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ASK AN AMBASSADOR: Chasing The Feature Fairy
I was going to write a post on the Mystery of Getting Featured here on ActiveRain, but this article says pretty much most of what I was going to share. Nice job!
ASK AN AMBASSADOR: Chasing The Feature Fairy
We're in real estate.  By nature, that means most of us are competitive.  That we've got some ego (which we put aside for our clients' sake).  That we like to get recognized (because really, what good is a plaque on the wall or some glass trophy but to tell us "we done good"??).
But as bloggers in the Rain, it's EASY to get caught up in the chase for a Feature. 
But frankly it's long odds.  Let's do the math:
Typical day there's 18 slots on the Home page and they don't always cycle through in a day, so maybe there won't even be 18 new featured posts that day.
Next, assume 1500 to 2000 posts a day get written on an average day in the Rain.
18 divided by 2000 means 1 out of every 111 posts gets featured.
And that's just if everything was done at random and there weren't any criteria involved, but if you watch the Feature ... more

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