There are so many blogs being created daily on the internet Blogging .CMS platforms like Blogger and WordPress have made it really easy for anyone to start a blog. While some are hosted on separate domain names, others prefer to use the free service (like example.wordpress.com). Every individual or company tries to cater to a niche and blogs about it. But the internet is such a platform that even a niche becomes a marketplace, full of people talking about the same stuff; and the niche no longer niche.

So how do you distinguish yourself from others  blog and share similar interests?

Use favicons!

Favorite icon (favicon) is an excellent free branding tool for webmasters and blog owners. It helps you to create brand awareness by displaying a little icon in the title bar of your blog.

Also, favicons attract more traffic to your blog by standing out against others who don’t sport a favicon themselves. Increased traffic means more readers, more subscribers and this gives you an opportunity to have more repeat readers. No matter, what subject or topic you blog about, you must use a favicon be recognized for your work.

Some other benefits of sporting a favicon are:

Tabbed browsing becomes easy:
When multiple sites are open in a browser, it becomes difficult to switch between the relevant sites. But with a favicon, you add another level of usability to your blog which helps the visitors to find your blog quickly before other blogs.

Site bookmarks are easy to find.
Usually we either bookmark our favorite sites in the browser or social bookmarking sites. Having a favicon for your blog helps in differentiating and browsing through the complete list of your bookmarks.

Maximum visibility in RSS readers.
While we all subscribe to various blogs to stay in touch with the latest updates, sometimes it makes our RSS reader look crowded. With a favicon, it becomes easy for the reader to read updates from your blog before others. And if you have an interesting story to tell, chances are that the reader will land up on your blog.

As you would have realized by now, favicons are essential to be recognized on the internet. Sporting a cool and relevant favicon will not only get more visitors to your blog, but will make those visitors look for it whenever and wherever they can. And that will indicate that you are someone special and standout from the rest of the bloggers.