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Ask An Ambassador: Features Or Phone Calls?
 
I lied the other day.
I didn't mean to, but I misrepresented what I thought was a fact.
As this community is prone to do periodically, someone asked "How do you get a featured post?".
But I said I'd never gotten a consumer phone call due to a Featured post (and I've received a LOT of featured posts during my current 8.5 year run of posting daily).
I actually have.  Below are my most viewed Featured posts and the ones with the arrows next to them?  Those have all caused me to receive home buyer calls, and in some cases even led to a closing.
 
 
Now here's the caveats:
The calls had NOTHING to do with the post being featured.  It was content the consumer sought and found, sometimes years after the post was published.  NONE of those calls happened while a post was on ActiveRain's front page. As far as I can tell, there's ZERO extra SEO for being on the front page. Those posts that caused calls AND were Featured?  They wouldn't meet what appears to be today's selection criteria.  Note those posts are from 2012 and 2013.  Localism posts no longer make the cut and haven't for years, but once upon a time ... more

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