Google Testing Favicons in Search Results
If you don’t have a favicon Google could be giving you one great big reason to get one. They recently started testing using favicons in the search results. This was first mentioned on January 25 on Search Engine Roundtable. It was later confirmed on the Google Groups Help.
When I tried it I could not get it to work, so I cannot confirm or deny that this is true. Below is the screenshot that was available from Search Engine Roundtable to give you an idea of what to look out for.
I read about this over at Search Engine Land.
If you are lucky enough to see take a screenshot and leave a comment with a link to the image so we can all take a look.
If this does not motivate you to get a favicon, I don’t know what will.
Blogger Favicon Showdown
I wanted to do something fun this week and let you decide which popular blogger has the best favicon.
Shoemoney
Shoemoney’s favicon is a scaled down version of his logo and it shows up really well considering the small size of the favicon. It certainly helps to brand his blog.
Problogger
Problogger’s favicon changed when he got the blog design redone last year. The new logo and favicon complement each other and help with the his branding. You can easily see the P and the Ubuntu style circle and dots on your address bar or tabs when you are on the Problogger site making it easy to find in the tabs when you are looking for it.
John Chow
John Chow’s favicon is a picture of half of his face. Considering the small size and how little space there is the favicon does appear to resemble him. I would guess there was a little Photoshop work done to make his favicon appear that clear but they did a good job. I am a little surprised it does not match his blog more, but in many ways his face is his logo.
Daily Blog Tips
Daniel Scocco runs Daily Blog Tips a popular blogging tips blog. The Daily Blog Tips favicon clearly draws its inspiration from their blog name taking out the DBT. Considering the small space it works not to bad, although it does appear to be a little blurry to me.
Now it is your turn. Vote in our poll and help determine which popular blogger has the best favicon!
How to Add Your Favicon to Blogger Update
Google/Blogger broke the instructions in the previous post about how to add your own favicon to a blogspot blog by adding some HTML that referenced the Blogger.com favicon instead. Fortunately the fix for this is relatively simple. Here is what has happened.
Blogger.com has added their own HTML to the templates near the top referencing their favicon. It looks like this if you look at the source code.
<link href='http://www.blogger.com/favicon.ico’ rel=’icon’ type=’image/vnd.microsoft.icon’/>
The instructions on How to Add Your Favicon to Blogger in step three says to add your own HTML code referencing your favicon right below the <head> tag. The web browser however will use the last reference so the Blogger.com favicon code was coming later on. The fix for this is to place your favicon code just before the closing <head> tag that looks like this: </head>.
Your code referencing your custom favicon then overrides the Google/Blogger.com code for the favicon and your custom favicon will return.
I tested this on the Free Favicon Blogspot blog and the favicon has returned. Give it a try on your Blogspot blog and let me know if it works.
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