We all love them and occasionally, just like little Oblio, we may even have a point or two. Now of course as people start to comment on those posts you can gain a few additional points (four points per comment). If you start writing stuff that people want to comment on, you can get to the point where you can max out the number of points that you can get for a post---usually around 325 points. If you do that consistently with all ten of your posts for the week that adds up to 3250 points per week----or 169,000 points per year. This is better than getting one feature a week (425 points) and all of the rest of your posts only getting 225 points each. Of course you don't get all the glory of a feature but it is easier to get 2 or 3 325's than it is to get one 425. The irony is that the more comments you get---the more likely you are to get featured so it is kind of a Catch 22. It takes 25 comments to get your post up to 325 points. I will be the first to admit that this is no easy feat. It takes months of consistently dishing out stuff that people want to comment on----so this approach may not be for everyone. But as long as you are going to post something---why not put in that little extra effort that will get you at least some comments. Maybe set a goal of getting 5 comments per post (even that would be an extra 200 points a week)---then move up to 10 comments per post. Before you know it you too may be able to max out the magic 325----and find yourself featured more often. They will feed each other---and you will start to get more total points for your efforts---and thus get more featured posts. The other spin off from this is that Google will take note as well---so it is good for your SEO. Remember content is king. So get the points? 
There are LOTS of ways to make points on activerain, but today let’s just talk about the typical 225 points you can get for simply posting a post that has more than 50 words. Everyone can do this and if you do it the allowed 10 times per week it would get you 2250 points per week---that’s 117,000 points per year.
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