{"id":18354,"date":"2011-12-30T08:30:00","date_gmt":"2011-12-30T16:30:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/seattlebubble.com\/blog\/?p=18354"},"modified":"2011-12-30T09:42:29","modified_gmt":"2011-12-30T17:42:29","slug":"top-10-most-viewed-posts-of-2011","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/seattlebubble.com\/blog\/2011\/12\/30\/top-10-most-viewed-posts-of-2011\/","title":{"rendered":"Top 10 Most-Viewed Posts of 2011"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Next up in the &#8220;Top 10 of 2011&#8221; series: the most-viewed individual posts.  Note of course that this only counts how many times people clicked through to each post&#8217;s individual link, excluding all the views they may have received on the front page.<\/p>\n<ol>\n<li value=\"10\">2,851 pageviews, 02\/14: <a href=\"http:\/\/seattlebubble.com\/blog\/2011\/02\/14\/new-york-times-seattle-sellers-simply-surrendering\/\" title=\"New York Times: Seattle Sellers Simply Surrendering\">New York Times: Seattle Sellers Simply Surrendering<\/a><\/li>\n<li value=\"9\">3,255 pageviews, 03\/23: <a href=\"http:\/\/seattlebubble.com\/blog\/2011\/03\/23\/reo-buyers-beware-of-multiple-offer-sudden-death\/\" title=\"REO Buyers: Beware of Multiple Offer Sudden Death\">REO Buyers: Beware of Multiple Offer Sudden Death<\/a><\/li>\n<li value=\"8\">3,390 pageviews, 05\/31: <a href=\"http:\/\/seattlebubble.com\/blog\/2011\/05\/31\/case-shiller-seattle-gets-a-teeny-tiny-spring-bounce\/\" title=\"Case-Shiller: Seattle Gets a Teeny Tiny Spring Bounce\">Case-Shiller: Seattle Gets a Teeny Tiny Spring Bounce<\/a><\/li>\n<li value=\"7\">3,676 pageviews, 04\/29: <a href=\"http:\/\/seattlebubble.com\/blog\/2011\/04\/29\/claim-seattle-real-estate-market-suddenly-heating-up\/\" title=\"Claim: Seattle Real Estate Market Suddenly Heating Up\">Claim: Seattle Real Estate Market Suddenly Heating Up<\/a><\/li>\n<li value=\"6\">3,683 pageviews, 03\/22: <a href=\"http:\/\/seattlebubble.com\/blog\/2011\/03\/22\/how-are-high-condo-hoa-fees-justified\/\" title=\"How Are High Condo HOA Fees Justified?\">How Are High Condo HOA Fees Justified?<\/a><\/li>\n<li value=\"5\">3,736 pageviews, 03\/16: <a href=\"http:\/\/seattlebubble.com\/blog\/2011\/03\/16\/are-seattle-area-rents-poised-to-shoot-up-again\/\" title=\"Are Seattle-Area Rents Poised to Shoot Up Again?\">Are Seattle-Area Rents Poised to Shoot Up Again?<\/a><\/li>\n<li value=\"4\">3,859 pageviews, 12\/21: <a href=\"http:\/\/seattlebubble.com\/blog\/2011\/12\/21\/real-actual-listing-photos-behold-the-hyperclouds\/\" title=\"Real Actual Listing Photos: BEHOLD THE HYPERCLOUDS\">Real Actual Listing Photos: BEHOLD THE HYPERCLOUDS<\/a><\/li>\n<li value=\"3\">4,924 pageviews, 03\/29: <a href=\"http:\/\/seattlebubble.com\/blog\/2011\/03\/29\/case-shiller-seattle-home-prices-nearly-30-off-peak\/\" title=\"Case-Shiller: Seattle Home Prices Nearly 30% Off Peak\">Case-Shiller: Seattle Home Prices Nearly 30% Off Peak<\/a><\/li>\n<li value=\"2\">5,366 pageviews, 05\/27: <a href=\"http:\/\/seattlebubble.com\/blog\/2011\/05\/27\/guess-what\/\" title=\"Guess What\">Guess What<\/a><\/li>\n<li value=\"1\">5,763 pageviews, 08\/28: <a href=\"http:\/\/seattlebubble.com\/blog\/2011\/08\/28\/the-return-of-the-pink-pony\/\" title=\"The Return of the Pink Pony!\">The Return of the Pink Pony!<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<p>No doubt we have <a href=\"http:\/\/www.wired.com\/underwire\/2011\/06\/bronies-my-little-ponys\/\" title=\"Wired: My Little Pony Corrals Unlikely Fanboys Known as 'Bronies'\">the Bronies<\/a> to <a href=\"http:\/\/mlponies.com\/forums\/viewtopic.php?f=2&#038;t=179&#038;p=62776#p62776\" title=\"MLPonies Forum\">thank<\/a> for #1.<\/p>\n<p>Not represented in this list is 2011&#8217;s far and away most popular content, the video I shot of a <a href=\"http:\/\/seattlebubble.com\/blog\/2011\/02\/27\/real-actual-home-improvement\/\" title=\"Real Actual Home Improvement\">Real Actual Home Improvement<\/a>.  My video made the rounds across a bunch of sites (<a href=\"http:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/DIY\/comments\/fz53m\/if_you_dont_know_what_youre_doing_when_it_comes\/\" title=\"Reddit DIY\">Reddit<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/gawker.com\/5782529\/is-this-the-worlds-worst-home-wiring-job-ever\" title=\"Gawker\">Gawker<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/whitetrashrepairs.com\/white-trash\/awesome-electrical-improvement-video\/\" title=\"White Trash Repairs\">White Trash Repairs<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/sportsillustrated.cnn.com\/2011\/extramustard\/hotclicks\/03\/10\/paz-vega-virgina-blows-10-point-lead-with-42-seconds-left\/\" title=\"Sports Illustrated\">Sports Illustrated<\/a>, and a bunch more), racking up over a million views between YouTube &#038; Break.com.*  Whoa.<\/p>\n<div style=\"width:600px; margin:0 auto;\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"YouTube video player\" width=\"600\" height=\"368\" src=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/XKZUFu97vus\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/div>\n<p>*<span style=\"font-size:85%\">[Some jerk ripped my video off YouTube, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.break.com\/cue-the-cuervo\/worst-automatic-garage-door-opener-installation-ever-2020629\">uploaded it to Break.com<\/a>, &#038; took credit for it as their own.  Thankfully the Break.com staff were friendly and responsive, and promptly transferred it to an account I created.]<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Next up in the &#8220;Top 10 of 2011&#8221; series: the most-viewed individual posts. Note of course that this only counts how many times people clicked through to each post&#8217;s individual link, excluding all the views they may have received on the front page. 2,851 pageviews, 02\/14: New York Times: Seattle Sellers Simply Surrendering 3,255 pageviews,&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[206],"tags":[826,661,827],"coauthors":[],"class_list":["post-18354","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-features","tag-826","tag-top-10","tag-views"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v26.2 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>Top 10 Most-Viewed Posts of 2011 \u2022 Seattle Bubble<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/seattlebubble.com\/blog\/2011\/12\/30\/top-10-most-viewed-posts-of-2011\/\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:card\" content=\"summary_large_image\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:title\" content=\"Top 10 Most-Viewed Posts of 2011 \u2022 Seattle Bubble\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:description\" content=\"Next up in the &#8220;Top 10 of 2011&#8221; series: the most-viewed individual posts. 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