Gem highlights a bane of bloggers worldwide 😱
See also: https://thestoryreadingapeblog.com/2015/02/10/authors-bloggers-readers-visitors-and-followers-please-update-your-gravatars-2/ for more ways to make, or update, YOUR Gravatar
After all – IT’S FREE, as well as useful so others can follow YOUR blog back 👍😃
As a new blogger I get very excited when people like my posts, however, I’ve noticed one mistake a lot of people seem to make. Even some bloggers much more experienced than myself.
They don’t have a full Gravatar profile.
Let’s start at the beginning.
You write a post on your blog and publish it and lo and behold, someone likes it. If you’re like me, you want to know who that person is.
Now if you’re on the app and get a notification, brilliant. You can click on the name of the person who liked it and go straight to their profile. But if you’re on your website you might decide to click on their avatar (The little box next to the ‘like’ button.)
This will take you to Gravatar.
So what is Gravatar?
Gravatar is a globally recognised avatar. If you are a WordPresser you automatically get a…
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Thank you for the reblog ☺️
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Welcome Gem – Great post 😀
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My description is meant to be funny and weird at the same time. Ain’t gonna change it. 🙂
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At least yours takes people back to your blog Joelle – many Gravatars don’t go anywhere! 😃
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That sucks.
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No it doesn’t Joelle – it’s free marketing so you can demonstrate your writing skills as well as your books 😃
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What sucks is that other people didn’t know to put in their links, either. I can’t imagine how I managed to do it right.
I’m having trouble trying to figure out Amazon Associates. Some people are naturally good at that kind of stuff. The rest of us just want to write and win the lottery so that we can pay someone to do this kind of stuff. 🙂
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