Using a Favicon on Your Blog
Published Friday, October 31, 2008 by bloggerblognet22596.
One of the most important facets of professional blogging and blogging for profit is keeping your blog in order. Professional bloggers will tell you this includes making sure that your blog design is immaculate as a quality blog design helps build stamp a mark of authority in your blog niche.
Trivial as it may seem to some, a lot of people fail to use a favicon to improve the design of their blog. A favicon (also know as a website/blog shortcut icon) is an icon associated with a blog or website. Browsers that support favicons display them in their URL.
A favicon (file extension .ico) appears as follows in your blog html:
People add a favicon to their blog in order to improve its overall memorability. When I visit a new website and I like it, I add it to my bookmarks. Days later when I browse through my bookmarks it is a lot easier to find a bookmark if it was marked with a cool favicon as a favicon makes a bookmark stand out. You can create a favicon for free at favicon.cc.
To add a favicon to your blog you can edit your blog theme's header.php file or if you are not proficient with coding you can install DigitalRamble's Fav Icon Manager plugin.
In general though, you should use a favicon on your blog, website or forum to help build your overall brand and help make your resource more memorable. I certainly make sure all my forums, blogs and website sport a favicon.
John Motson runs a domain name forum and domain name blog and has authored the popular domain name book Domaining Manifesto.
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