I see a lot of bloggers who comment on blog posts who don’t have their picture show up next to their post. If that is the case for you and you would like to see your picture up I have good news, it is very easy and I am here to show you how to do it! It’s called a gravatar which means Globally Recognized Avatar. You can set yours up quickly enough to come back here and post and show it off!
Let’s get started shall we?
- First you choose a picture that you want to show up by your posts. You will want to put a little bit of thought into this as this picture will show up by all of your comments. Do you want a professional photo? Do you want a silly photo? Do you want a photo of you with your dog or kids? You may want to take some pictures of yourself if you don’t have one that you want to represent you by all of your comments. Or perhaps you will want to alter a photo in some way, make it black and white or add text.
- You may not want a photograph at all, if you are feeling camera shy you still have options to have something else as your gravatar. You can pick out a regular avatar to use or you can use a photo of your favorite pet or a sunset. If you have a badge for your blog then that definitely works! Have fun, be creative.
- Once you have your image picked out head over to gravatar.com. Once you are there it only takes a very short time to set up a free account. Then you upload the image and fill out the details (your website, email address) and you are set!
- Head back here and post your comment to try out your new gravatar!
That’s it! You probably didn’t expect it to be that easy did you?
Happy commenting!
Thank you! I was wondering how to do that, and it was on my list of things to figure out via searching the web. Now I can cross that off my to-do list! Thanks again
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Hi Stacy,
This is such an important post when it comes to people who are building a network marketing internet business and branding themselves! Your photo is really your logo and should be the thing that everyone thinks of when they think of your business.
I recommend that everyone follows your instructions and brands themselves with a photo.
You laid it out so simply! Great job,
Heather
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Hey Stacy
i am still shocked at the amount of people who are not using this easy implementable tool to increase their brand.
Thanks for pointing people in the right direction.
Chat soon
Dwayne
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Thanks. Can’t wait to see if this works… come visit when you can…
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I like it when people have an easily recognizable icon next to their comments. It makes me feel like I start “knowing” the people I’m hanging out with in the blogs.
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Hey Stacy
Gravatar is such a great free tool I do not know why anyone would not use it.
I am very unlikely to follow a comment back to someone’s blog if they do not have a picture.
If they do not take themselves seriously why should I.
Thanks Stacy, hopefully everyone who reads your post will now take the few minutes and setup up their gravatar.
Peter
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May I suggest 5px or 10px padding to the right of your image?
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trying to see if it worked! Thanks for the info:)
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Stacy Reply:
October 28th, 2010 at 10:34 am
I can see it! Great job!
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Thanks, Stacy for ALL of the tips that you give to us!
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Stacy Reply:
June 6th, 2011 at 8:43 am
I’m glad you’ve found it helpful!
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Great for me that I found your Blog… I just started with my own Blog, can I reference to this post? I want to write something on similiar topic!
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Just tried it. Hope it works.
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Alicia Reply:
April 6th, 2012 at 5:44 pm
Oh no! It didn’t work…I’ll try again.
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Alicia Reply:
April 6th, 2012 at 5:45 pm
Heeey! It worked! Thanks so much!
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Stacy Reply:
April 11th, 2012 at 4:02 pm
Looks great!
Very nice picture!
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