Pages That Display Tweet Buttons See 7x More Social Mentions

By Greg Finn

Published: September 1, 2011 at 11:00 am

In a recent report released by BrightEdge, an enterprise SEO company, stats were released showing correlation between social buttons and social shares. Data showed that pages that displayed the Tweet button saw 7 times more social media mentions than pages that didn’t feature the button. This data was pulled from the “top 10,000 sites on the web.”
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The report also showed that in August 53.6% of the largest 10,000 sites have social widgets or buttons on the front page, up from 52.8% in July. The Facebook buttons and widgets led the way in popularity with 50% usage, while Twitter buttons were featured on 42.5% of these sites and Google +1 on just 8.5%.
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For more information, see the full BrightEdge report.

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Greg Finn

Greg Finn is the Director of Marketing for Cypress North, a company that provides digital marketing and web development. He is a co-host of Marketing O'Clock and has been in the digital marketing industry for nearly 20 years. You can also find Greg on Twitter (@gregfinn) or LinkedIn.