Right place.  Right time.  Right topic.  Right writing.  And a drunk feature fairy adds randomness to the process.

Nah you don't want to sleep with any of those guys. Trust me! LOL

Seriously, dead chicken, cigar, rum, cauldron, full moon all contribute to a successful featured post.

Okay okay. There's no metric.

Write stuff of value.
That way, whether it's featured or not, people will enjoy it.

I do not recall an Anonymous person being featured.

Write something the community values.

How to get "featured" is a perennial question asked by lots of non-blue-men people.

The special sauce has never been well determined.  I have written posts that I've spent hours on, that I think are freakin' brilliant with graphs, charts, clipart and deserve a feature, and they are ignored and find their way to basement storage quickly.  

And then I've had casual 1-paragraph posts that I've written as I run out the door, as a lark, and suddenly my AR account blows-up with comments and a featured star.  Go figure.

I think Bill Spear's conjecture about Drunk Feature Faeries is about as close as any.

You have to write interesting content that happens to get in front of the feature fairies at the right moment. There is no way to guarantee a featured post, but if you continuously write information that will help other real estate professionals, that highlights something new or something old in a unique way, or that is otherwise of interest, you might get one.

You might want to start by writing for some of the contests.

And of course, you can't post anonymously to be considered. Well, actually, I don't know if that's true. What I can say, is I've never seen an anonymous writer get featured.

that's an easy question to answer.... show your face and state your name.... 

Liz and Bill Spear have your answer.

As far as I can tell, for the most part, you have the best chance of getting Featured if you write something that is of benefit to the general membership. Something that is educational and may help the members work more effectively and increase their business... or improve life in some way.  Writing about listings or your area isn't going to do it. 

I started the Second Chance Saturday series to let members nominate blogposts that maybe should have been Featured, but weren't.  If you want your blog or someone else's Featured, let me know.  I don't Feature political posts of any kind or listings or general information about a specific area. Otherwise I'm pretty liberal.  

"Sometimes you deserve a second chance, not because you weren't fabulous the first time but because the timing and circumstances weren't quite right.  You just got overlooked."  -Carol Williams

Ni idea, but I do get them sometimes. However sometimes you miss and a simlar post gets featured. Just be consistent in your posting and try to post things which are useful for everyone on AR, or educational, or part of a contest.

Valuable content and not be anonymous 

Good answers are here. I hope you find the best one. 

Great question and asnwers. Good luck. 

Keep it relevant to the times and answer questions that people are wondering about.

In a sellers market, write about how buyers can win multiple offers.

In a buyers market, write how sellers can make their home stand out and sell faster.

Those are just two examples. Whatever the hot topic of the day is, be the one with the solution.

Keep the writing style easy to read. We're not going for the Pulitzer Prize. 

300 to 400 words suffice, sometimes 500.

Good Lucky,  I only have 25 in 5 years.

Have only seen the Ambassadors get featured mostly lately.

post consistent good content and participate in the community to increase chances... although not anonymously

It is like voting. Should be done early and often.

First, don't be anonymous.

Liz and Bill Spear nailed this one!

Content and being an active part of this community.

Hope & Pray that by accident some one Features your post:))) or just interact with the community on a regular basis and write great content... for every one hundred great content post you write... if you are lucky one might get Featured:)) Endre

Always a pleasant surprise when one shows up, I long ago stopped trying to get one and just accept what comes.

Just write a good post that generates more discussion I guess.

Many good responses.

      Post regularly.   Post relevant information.   Make sure your posts are in a clean format (easy to read, good font size/font colors and layout), with photos or images.

    You will get featured, in time.

It has to be content that AR's staff finds feature worthy.  My features were mostly about AR itself.

Is there a doctor in the house?

One, you can't be anonymous, secondly have something interesting to say and third you need a little luck!

Try not being Anonymous

I can assure you that it would never happen with an Anonymous post. 

The moderators picked one of my posts on a local event which included a linked youtube video I had embedded into the blog. Not sure if that had anything to do with being chosen, but it might!

Good quality content that makes the membership better at their jobs, better people and better bloggers.  Beyond that, I'm clueless. 

The proverbial quest... Quality and usefulness rule; good grammar and spelling highly appreciated too.

I love what Bill Liz and Bill Spear said...A

BLiz have a great  answer.

Write a quality blog and have enough eyes see it, or the right eyes see it.  

But mostly the drunken feature fairy.  

Not be an anonymous blue head!

Good material and luck

I am not sure I have had a featured post in a few groups but not on the whole site. I do assume that being more VISIBLE would help 

Not be anonymous? But why even worry about it. What does it get you except 100 points? Glory is not everlasting!