We’ve written posts on the BurstBlog about avatars a few times. We cannot stress enough how much it helps for you to have an image uploaded alongside your blog. It helps our editors more easily identify you, which can lead to better promotion of your blog to publisher sites. More importantly, avatars help publishers identify you when they proactively search through BlogBurst for blogs to add to their sites. They will more than likely pick the blog with the easily identifiable image. Here is an example of what the publishers or editors see when they do a blog search on BlogBurst. The orange square images represent blogs with no avatars that by default receive the BlogBurst member avatar:
Also, once up on the publisher site, a blog with an avatar will drive click thrus back to the blog because it makes the attribution more compelling to the user/reader.
Best way to provide a good avatar is to upload a square image in .jpg or .gif format - not a rectangular or oblong image - square is best. Our system automatically resizes images, so you should be fine in the size department. And, remember, if your first avatar didn’t take or you want to add a new one, you can always go back and do so. This goes for your profile and any other information you have previously added to our system. We’re flexible!
An example of a bad avatar:
Here is an example of a good/square avatar
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