It’s easy doesn’t mean that everyone get it right. Different websites/scripts/browsers/rss readers look for different places for favicon.

For example, most rss readers look for favicon in the root folder of the blog. While other softwares/browsers look for favicon in either meta tag of header or the root folder for the favicon. If you don’t have favicon in all the places where those browsers/scripts look for then for those browsers your blog seems like having no favicon at all.

You can find more details about it here:
http://www.maxblogpress.com/plugins/mfi/

I suggest even the experienced user to use MaxBlogPress Favcion to ensure that you have put favicon correctly and in all the places softwares/browsers look for. Sometimes experienced user too get it wrong.

Want proof?

I recently did a research on top 100 blogs on make money online niche and found this result:

* 22 Blogs don’t have favicon at all.
* 23 Blogs don’t have favicon in their header (JohnChow.com also is in the same list)
* 17 Blogs don’t have favcion in their root folder.
* 38 Blogs have got the favicon right.

Also, this quote from the MaxBlogPress site is a ruthless lie:
Let’s face it- There’s no way you can add favicon in your wordpress admin interface. Even if you have the privilege of editing the theme, you CAN’T add favicon directly from there. It’s next to IMPOSSIBLE.

Nubloo,

Here I was talking about the wordpress admin interface not the actual blog. You can of course add the meta tag in the theme for the blog but wordpress admin interface uses different header.

The only way you can add meta data in header is by editing the core wordpress files which is almost undoable for a normal non-techie blogger.

I created this plugin for the non-techie bloggers who find it hard to even add simple line of codes in their themes. Beside that, this plugin also add favicon in the rss feed itself so that the supported rss reader will brand your posts.