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What is a Gravatar? Your Gravatar (Globally Recognized Avatar) is an image that follows you from site to site, appearing beside your name when you comment or post on a blog other than your own. It could be your photo or an image that represents your business.

On Gravatar, users can register an account based on their email address, and upload an avatar/photo/logo to be associated with the account. Gravatar plugins are available for popular blogging software; when the user posts a comment on such a blog that requires an e-mail address, the blogging software checks whether that e-mail address has an associated avatar at Gravatar. If so, the Gravatar is shown along with the comment. A Gravatar avatar can be up to 512 pixels wide is always square and is displayed at 80 by 80 pixels by default.

Wordpress is wonderful blog site that supports Gravatars. Google also loves wordpress websites. More about Wordpress sites to be posted later.

The nice thing about the Gravatar is that it gives you control over the image that is used. Otherwise, your comment will be accompanied by a generic symbol or gray silhouette. Your Gravatar shows a little bit more of who you are, and can even encourage people to click through to your site. Readers are more apt to connect to a face rather than a name. This is a step in helping to build a relationship and gets them once step forward to trusting you.

 If leaving a comment on a blog that does not have the “Show Avatar” setting selected, your Gravatar won’t show up. No worries, the use of Gravatars is catching, so it’s only a matter of time and every blog will have it.

Go to www.gravatar.com to add some character to the comments you leave on other blogs.

Rick Strubel, Millionaire in Training, MMMChallenge.com

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