Gravatar

After looking through my blog comments, I noticed how many people didn’t have Gravatars.

What is a Gravatar?

Gravatars are Globally Recognized Avatars created by Tom Werner. Your Gravatar is an image that follows you from site to site appearing beside your name when you do things like comment or post on a blog. They help identify your posts on blogs and web forums, and is recognized by your email address every time you leave a comment.

Leaving behind an avatar image on every blog comment is a relationship builder. It will also create awareness with the blog owner and other readers that come to that blog post. Most people can connect more with an image of a face or a logo than the default image place holder. It is much harder for people to connect with a default image because it lacks personalization.

If you are really active in leaving blog comments in niche communities you will get notice a lot by others in that community. If people see your comments everywhere it is like “Wow this gal or guy is everywhere!”

So how does Gravatar work?

You upload your image to the Gravatar website where it is stored on their computers. The Gravatar is attached to an email address that you specify during setup. Anytime you leave a comment on a blog and enter your email address you specified during the setup process, your Gravatar image appears next to your blog comment.

I’ve revamped my blog to include Gravatars to appear next to your comment(s) on my blog entry pages so sign up and start customizing your Gravatar!

Visit Gravatar.com to customize your globally recognized avatar.

Interested in having Gravatars appear on your blog? Check out WordPress Codex to learn more.