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Tip of the Week: Personalize your Profile

A Disqus account is already very handy as a persistent profile across all the sites you comment on. Did you know it’s also a powerful tool you can use to personalize your identity, promote your site, and customize your experience across every Disqus site?

Construct your profile

When you leave an interesting comment, people are going to want to find out more about you. Why not tell them a little more? Start by going to your Edit Profile window, accessible on the Disqus dropdown.

• Make a name for yourself. In the Profile tab, Full Name is the name displayed next to your comments. If you didn’t get the username you wanted, this is where you can put it. While you’re at it add a short bio of yourself and your location in the world, which will be visible in the header of your comments and in your public profile.

• Give yourself a face! Using a default avatar is boring, but if you go over to the Avatar tab you can upload an image of yourself. You too can be Internet-famous.

• Connect your other online profiles. Such as Facebook, Twitter, and Google in the Services tab. Or don’t connect them — what circles you want to expose others to is up to you.

Promote your blog or site

A simple, yet often overlooked, option is to add your website into your profile. This means that whenever you leave a comment, your name will link to your website. Leaving interesting comments on other communities will drive traffic to your site. Because people are visiting due to your comment and profile, you can be confident that this is quality traffic by people who want to know more about your message.

Customize your Disqus experience

In the Account tab, you’ll find the username, email and password options. You’ll also see that you can choose your timezone and timestamp format to be either relative or absolute. This will format the timestamps on every Disqus site you visit, so you’ll never wonder when a comment was actually made.

Don’t have a Disqus profile yet? You can easily sign up for one here. If you’ve made any comments on Disqus previously, you can merge them into your shiny new account using our guide.