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Mar
26

Make Your Blog Eye Catching With Favicon

Favicon is an icon for your blog. You can see icon on your browser address bar line. With this icon, your blog sound like pro. More benefit using this favicon is when your reader has lot of feeds, your blog will stand out from the crowd.

 

Having favicon on your blog is easy, you just need to create image file gif/jpg/png and save it as icon file (.ico) then upload it on your root server. Root server usually on public_html or htdocs directory. Once you have uploaded it, go to your Wordpress admin, and choose theme editor. Find a file with name header.php and add this code bellow between <head> </head> tags.

 

<link rel=”shortcut icon” href=”www.tipscollections.com/favicon.ico”>

<link rel=”icon” href=”www.tipscollections.com/favicon.ico”>

 

www.site.com or site.com

Blog can be accessed on two different ways with www.yourblog.com or yourblog.com. Both ways are good but you need to choose one of them as preferred domain which make search engine easy to recognize your blog. To set preferred domain for your blog, you need to register at www.google.com/webmaster/ and add your blog URL. After you add your blog URL, you need to set up which domain you prefer to be preferred domain on Google webmaster.

 

One you setup your preferred domain on Google webmaster, now you need to add 301 redirect on your blog. This is important coz you need to redirect your URL to preferred domain URL. To redirect your blog you need to add this code bellow on your .htaccess file

 

RewriteEngine On

RewriteCond %{HTTP_HOST} !^(.*)\.yourblogname\.com$ [NC]

RewriteRule ^(.*)$ http://www.yourblogname.com/$1 [R=301,L]

 

 

Use Permalinks to Improve Your SEO

Wordpress has default setting how to show your blog URL. Permalinks is one of function that allows you to setup your URL link style. If your permalinks setting still on default value, your post URL will be like this.

 

http://www.yourblogname.com/?p=number

 

Permalinks setting need to be…




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