I am really impressed with Google’s speed of indexing new articles and blog posts.

Today I experienced the power of Google blog posts indexing and I was amazed to see my new article in Google search results within a matter of minutes.

Now there are lots of other companies like Twitter, Facebook etc. that are moving to real time post indexing.
So it looks like Google has upped their game in real time article and blog post indexing also.

Very impressive indeed!

I won’t be surprised to see that this post I’m currently writing will be indexed and live within minutes.

This is just one example of how much I appreciate the work the Google engineers are doing.
Simplicity, combined with speed and power.

Now you might ask what has fast or real time indexing got to do with making a website?

It has got a lot to do with your website. For starters you want visitors to your get to your unique website content quick and free (organic search engine listed) within a short space of time and also beat your competitors.

Google has really impressed me today.

So keep on creating your website and blogging.

Today I have added a favicon icon to the www.how-2-make-a-website.com blog. A favicon is a good way to brand your site and to help people to locate your website between their other bookmarks.

What is a Favicon?

A favicon which is short for favorites icon is also known as a

• website icon
• url icon
• shortcut icon
• bookmark icon
• location bar icon

The size of a favicon is a 16×16 pixel square icon

Have a look at the following image and see the favicon marked with the yellow circle:

Website Favicon

A favicon can be very useful to find a site when you have lots of bookmarks. It also looks good.

Have a look at this screenshot of my bookmarks. This is a long list of bookmarks, but I cut screenshot short.

WordPress Bookmarks

How to add a Favicon to your WordPress blog

1. You will need a image for your favicon. You can use your logo, words etc. If you don’t have your own image then you can use royalty free images by searching for it in a search engine
2. Go to http://tools.dynamicdrive.com/favicon/ to create you 16 x 16 favicon.
3. Choose your image and click on the create icon button
   
   

   How To MAke A WordPress Favicon

4. Upload via FTP the created favicon from the location that you saved it to the root of your website hosting server. You can use cPAnel, Filezilla etc. to upload the 16 x 16 favicon to your web server. I’m going to use Filezilla. Have a look at the screenshot.
   
   

   Upload Favicon With Filezilla

5. Now you need link that point from your blog to the uploaded icon on the web server
6. Log into the admin side of your WordPress Blog and go to Appearance section.
7. Select Editor
8. Select Header.php
9. Add the following code to the header section of your blog.
   
10. Check screen shot
    
    

    Edit WordPress header file

11. Save you header.php file
12. Now the last step is to refresh your web browser and the favicon will appear. Sometimes it takes a while to show.


WordPress Favicon