Top 25 Youth Ministry Blogs of 2012
Welcome to the fourth annual ranking of the top blogs in youth ministry. (see the 2011 list)How is the list created?The list is based on a composite score of 66% publicly available statistics, such as Alexa and Google Page Rank, and 33% an influence rank voted based on a vote by the previous year’s top bloggers. The first step is to research the publicly available statistics for the 150+ blogs on the index. Next, I rank the statistical strength of each blog. Then, I ask those currently on the list to rate each of the Top 50 blogs for influence. Finally, the human ranking is added in with the statistical rankings to create the composite ranking published here.What are the criteria for consideration?It has to be a blog that’s about youth ministry and it has to be active. If you think you have a blog that I should consider for the 2013 list, please leave a comment. I’m currently indexing approximately 150 youth ministry related blogs so there's a good chance I've already got you on the list.How hard is it to get ranked?As you can see in the rankings, while the majority of the blogs in the Top 25 are long-term time investments, there are seven who were not ranked in 2011. My hope in publishing this list is to encourage the genre of blogs focused specifically on ministering to adolescents around the world.Questions?Each year I get a wide variety of feedback about the blog rankings and I love it all. Feel free to leave a comment to this post or contact me via the website.I'm on the list, now what? I asked Cartier if they'd donate diamond pendants to commemorate the 2012 list, I'm still waiting to hear back. In the meantime I've made this fancy graphic that would look great on your blog.