The challenge of the rankings is that something posted at the beginning of the month usually ranks higher than later in the month… It has had more days to impact the rankings.  I thought that this always worked well in the CaptionThis entries’ favor.

So it is interesting to note that The Protester did so well with only half the month to go and a holiday half a month to boot! Our Christmas greeting Tidings of Great Joy did well, too; and it is kind of fun that a personal posting ranked #6.

As has become Top Posts tradition, we are posting a Wordle word cloud… (Click to enlarge it.) Checking to see if the words we are using in heavy rotation – God, ministry, Christmas, youth -  are matching the message we want to communicate.

And, here’s the year if 2011 in review… 

You can see the influence of the CaptionThis contest in traffic… Nearly 1/3 of the top 20 posts were captionthis and December’s rated pretty high in the monthly…  Yet, we are not going to be repeating the every first Saturday function of it in the New Year.

Further, you can note that traffic played a part on our top ten listing as well.

Peace out, 2011!