Did you know that a single picture of you on your blog helps define the personality of your blog? When I go around surfing other blogs, especially on Blogger.com, and I see their pictures on their profile pages, the pictures of the authors help me understand their interests and personality. If you don’t have at least one picture of yourself on your blog then find one and place it on your about page, it’ll help you in the long run.

Don’t worry about looks; blog readers come to your site to read your content, not look at your pictures. Well, I can’t say that for all readers but let’s just say the majority of your readers come to read your content.

Get a good picture. You don’t have to be as hot as Jane May or cute like Kumiko or “a damn fine person” like John Chow, but a decent picture of you is good enough to put life to your blog. Don’t worry about how you look like, just get a good picture of yourself and it’ll be enough to attract loyal readers to your content.

Bring life to your site. A blog that doesn’t have a picture of the author is not quite lively as with a blog that does have the author’s picture. If you author a blog, a picture of you can take you a long way toward creating strong ties with your readers.

Help make strong relationships with readers. A picture of you can help define who you are to your readers. As mentioned above, a picture of you helps define the personality of your blog towards your readers, based on their perception.

Sunny aka Desi Baba

The picture on the left is a picture of me taken when I got bored while studying at 4 AM in the morning. I’m not saying you should place a Hollywood star-wannabe style picture like I did on my about page. I only did it because I like that picture, but on the right side of this blog you can see that I placed a natural looking picture of myself with no shades or high-end clothes or high-end lighting. I’m sure by looking at the picture you can come up with a good enough info about my personality. If I was a regular reader and I came across this picture I would say the guy has brown hair, wears shades, and likes black. Ok, enough with the common sense stuff, but I would say he likes to pose in his pics, he wears dark colors, and he worries about his looks. You may have a different perception but that’s just what I would think if I was someone else.

A good example would be Jeremy Schoemaker, otherwise known as ShoeMoney. He has pictures of himself and picture of the events he went to all over his site. He has a good established site, but his site is made very lively not only by his podcasts but also due to his pictures.

Anyways, try adding a picture of yourself to your blog and tell me how it goes.


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