Most every major site on the net has one. YouTube, Facebook, Blogger. All these sites have these.
But what is a Favicon?
It means "favorite icon". These are small images.
Next time you're on your favorite website, look up at the tab that is open for the page your on. You will see a little icon. Right now you're on blogger, if you look up at the tab open for this page you should see a image/icon that looks sort of like this:
This is the favicon for blogger.
Is it important to have a Favicon for your WordPress websites?
What is the advantages of having a Favicon in WordPress? Having one will give your site more credibility to both your visitors and to Google. Many professional website builders say having one will help improve the overall SEO of your website.
Also if someone book marks your site, having a favicon in place will really make your site stand out. A picture is worth a 1000 words right? And this is one of the many factors that will give you my clicks, say if your site is bookmarker on digg, redditt, or Google+.
Since you can get one for free and it's very easy to upload these small icons onto your WordPress site. And there really is no excuse not to have one. Well, the only excuse not to upload one of these icons for your site is only because you are too lazy to do this.
One more cool thing about the Thesis Theme is it has a favicon uploader built into it so you will not need to install an extra wp-plugin.
But if you are using a free wp theme or even a paid theme (many paid themes do not have the built in ability to upload these icons) here is the best wp plugin for uploading a favicon. This is free at WordPress.org
But now that you have the plugin to upload your WordPress favicon where do you find one. One great site I use to find these icons is icon finder.
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