Facebook still dominant in social plug-in

An analysis of the front pages of Internet's 10,000 largest sites showed that Facebook still enjoys a dominant position on the adoption of social sharing plug-ins and links to social sites, according to a study released Friday. Facebook is still the preferred social media platform for larger companies with more than 47 percent of sites linking to the network, according to the inaugural version of SocialShare Site Analysis, which was released on Friday and conducted by BrightEdge, an enterprise search engine optimization platform. Twitter follows Facebook on homepage links to social sites with 42 percent of sites measured. And almost 17 percent of the 10,000 largest sites have links to YouTube on their front pages. As for social plug-ins, Facebook is still the dominant tool with almost 20 percent of these large sites include plug-in tools offered by Facebook, including Facebook like button, like box, Facebook connect and Facebook recommendations. Surprisingly, Google+1 is more widely used than Twitter's share button with an integration rate of 4.5 percent which tops the combined numbers of the Twitter share (2.1 percent) and Twitter instant follow (1.3 percent). The SocialShare Site Analysis will be a monthly report that tracks the presence and penetration of social sharing tools on the world's 10,000 largest sites, BrightEdge said.