Marketing Land’s Most-Shared Stories on Google+ in 2013: Google+, Google Reader and Google Glass

Happy New Year Marketing Land fans! We kick off 2014 with our last look back at 2013, the most-shared Marketing Land stories on Google+.

What was the hottest topic our readers “+1’d” this past year?  Just as our Facebook fans prefer to share stories about Facebook, our readers on Google+ like news and stories about Google, especially Google+. It was an important year for the platform, becoming the second largest social network in the world early in 2013.

Here they are – the top 20 shared Marketing Land stories on Google+.

1. Study: Google+ Will Overtake Facebook’s Social Sharing By 2016 (1256)

2. Google To Close Google Reader On July 1 (987)

3. The #Hashtag Bowl, Game Over: Twitter Mentioned In 50% Of Super Bowl Commercials, Facebook Only 8%, Google+ Shut Out (859)

4. Gigya: Only 2 Percent Of Social Sharing Happens On Google+ (773)

5. Report: Facebook Still The King Of Social Logins, But Google+ Is Nipping At Their Heels (737)

6. Got Glass? Google Sending Out Gmail-Like Invites For Google Glass (679)

7. Google+ Rolls Out A New Page Manager Dashboard (651)

8. 12 Google Reader Alternatives (590)

9. Google’s Broken Promises & Who’s Running The Search Engine? (492)

10. The Internship: A Fun Movie, But Also A Beautiful Google Commercial (472)

11. Google+ Drives A Fraction Of The Referral Traffic That Facebook, Pinterest & Twitter Do [Report] (458)

12. No, Eric Schmidt’s Face Isn’t All Over Google+ In Protest Over Shared Endorsement Ads (458)

13. Google: “Game Changing” Features Will Boost Google+ Adoption (447)

14. Report: Google+ Now 2nd-Biggest Social Network Worldwide (443)

15. Mindset that Makes Online Marketing Work (429)

16. EdgeRank Is Dead: Facebook’s News Feed Algorithm Now Has Close To 100K Weight Factors (423)

17. Google Launches Notes Service, Google Keep – Lookout Apple, Evernote? (383)

18. On Google+, Traditional Media Catching Up To Online News Sites (363)

19.+1ed Posts Now Popping Up In The Google+ Stream (351)

20. Google’s Share Of Social Logins Gaining On Facebook (But Not On Mobile) (334)

For all of our most socially-shared stories of 2013 on Marketing Land and our sister site, Search Engine Land, we used Social Crawlytics, a free tool that analyzes each URL of a site to show how it’s been shared across top social sites.

To our readers everywhere, a very happy and prosperous 2014!

About The Author

Monica Wright

Monica Wright serves as Vice President of Audience Engagement for Marketing Land and Search Engine Land. With over 15 years of experience in online publishing, content marketing and audience development for media companies, she is focused on content consumption and measuring user engagement on both sites across multiple platforms including desktop, mobile, social and email. In addition, she serves as a program coordinator for the SMX conference series, produced by parent company Third Door Media, publisher of Marketing Land and Search Engine Land. You can find Monica on Twitter @monicawright, LinkedIn and Google+.