Hi Bill - It took me a bit too before I really took the time to check it all out and really see how it all works. 

Hi John - Thank you so much for bookmarking this for future reference.

Scott - Way cool isn't it?  I have a hard time too sometimes keeping up with all of the wonderful tools we have at our disposal here in Active Rain.

Terry - Me too.....I say those in know can put it all together and I'll just follow along and enjoy the benefits too!

Sandy - I've still got a little catching up to do too on a few items too.   It really is easy to navigate through the different channels and I wish I hadn't waited so long to check it out.

Jeremy - I couldn't believe how cool all this was either until I took and time to check it out! 

Sharon - I second that!! Sometimes though there are just not enough hours in a day to keep up with it all but that doesn't stop me from trying.

Yvette - AR positively ROCKS in my book and I'm amazed at how it continues to improve by bringing such great features and tools to the community.

Diane - The depth to AR through the addition of the Active Rain Channels goes very deep and what I wrote in my post was just from skimming the surface.

Bill - I love to know when a change is being made and how it all works too.  I saw the original post Brad wrote when he introduced this too, bookmarked it and neglected to go back to review it all til yesterday.  You can bet I won't be doing that again! :-)

Pam - I really enjoyed sharing this as it gave me an opportunity to see how wonderful this feature is and how much it benefits all of us.

Corinne - You're very welcome.  Would love to know what you found after you checked out on how you are doing.

Kevin - I love Localism and how it lets us really engage with those looking at our particular areas through the posts we write about our communities. I never get any comments on my Localism posts and that's okay with me.  The important thing is that people will find you as a result of them and contact you as the local expert.

Connie - Don't tell Brad...we'll keep it our little secret! :-)

Carole - I was occasionally using the channels too and was a bit reluctant because I really didn't understand how it all worked.  I have a much clearer picture now and will be directing a lot more of my energy into them. Thanks for the congratulations on the feature.  I love those little gold stars! :-)

Darla - I'm still learning too and welcome every tip I can get! :-)

Sonja - I'm so glad that you are going to give the channels a try.  You're gonna love them once you start using them.

George - I know there have been some growing pains and it's sometimes difficult to keep up with the pace at which AR has experienced and hope that the bumps in the road will pave the way to a more robust community.

Debe - Thank you so much for the congratulations and for the support and inspiration you give me.  Hope you find that you're cooking on the Charlotte NC channel. :-)

Joan - That's what I love about Active Rain...they keep providing us with more ways to fill up our glasses with google juice and if the Active Rain channels are the path to get us there, I'm all in for that! :-)

Neal - Thank you!  I know we can't always find the time to figure out how something works and happy that I was able to give you a peek into how cool the Active Rain Channels are!

Virgina - As you can tell from my post I stumbled around with this too and I'm so happy I finally took the time to really take a deeper look into what it truly was all about.

Brad and Angela - I've lost count of the many benefits that AR has to offer us and it just keeps getting better and better!

Marti - You know I would never let a well thought out and illustrated post get by you! :-)  I hope it will provide the members who read it a little better insight into the Active Rain Channels.

Christine - The channels were a bit of a mytery to me too.  Glad the explanation helped you to better understand them.

Paul - Thank you for your kind words.  I thoroughly enjoyed putting this all together about how the Active Rain Channels worked.

Eileen - I'm so happy to hear you now have a better sense of how it all works.  I've still got to do a bit of further channeling to some of my posts too.

Jon - It definitely helps a lot when you put links to your website in your blog by using targeted keywords and then linking them to your website.

Lee and Pamela - WOW.... that is great news to hear about your wonderful results.  Keep up the great posts for your area, channel them correctly and best wishes for your continued success on Google for Hunter's Meadow Raleigh NC.

Troy - You're welcome. I wasn't sure either when it was first introduced which is why I was so hesitant to use them but not any more!

Esko - Thank you!  From a lot of the comments so far it looks like there were a number of us who were in the dark about how these channels worked but I see the light now!.

Elizabeth - You always light up my day!  I'm soooooooooo excited about how cool this is for everyone here too and can't wait to finish channeling the posts I missed.  GBU!

Terri - It was my pleasure.....I hope your find your tour of the channels an enjoyable one.

Tamara - I'm so glad the post helped and even happier to hear about your success in improving your Google rankings!  You go girl! :-)

Elizabeth - Believe me there is so much here still left to learn even for me.  Just take it one step at a time and you won't find it so overwhelming.  I'll be waiting to hear about your succeses here in the "Rain".

Lynn - Hope you had a chance today to see how the channels worked and make good use of all they have to offer. :-)

Gail - Thanks so much for visiting both posts and hope to catch up with you again too!

Hi Gail - I'm so happy to hear that you got it all done yesterday!  Way to go....I'm on my way to add you as an associate too and look forward to reading your blog.