In case you missed them, the first five posts in the series can be found at:

Go for the Gold!

Go for the Gold! Part 2 of a series

Go for the Gold! Part 3 of a series

Go for the Gold! Part 4 of a series

Go for the Gold! Part 5 of a series

This post focuses on points from Blog Posts.

How?  How can you accumulate points from Blog Posts?

You earn a base of 200 points for each post (50 words minimum) you make to your Active Rain blog - up to 5 in any one day and up to 10 in a week - which runs Sunday to Saturday.  

This base of 200 points is affected by readers who rate your post using the 1-5 radio button, as well as perhaps an algorithm known to the Rain Gods that makes adjustments for views, clicks, etc.

Writing a post that attracts enough attention to become featured with the coveted  will be more widely read, generally generate more comments, and can easily rocket in points from the initial 200  to 400, 500 or more. 

Writing a post that attracts the wrong kind of attention from the moderators and/or the Rain gods can be "awarded" the even more coveted  which is a sign that your base 200 points have been reset to zero!

Of my total 238,345 points, 78,269 (about 33%) come from 304 blog posts.  That's an average of 257 points per post. 

Stay tuned for future posts in this series.....