ok thank you.
Its been just over a week. It is a google search that goes away from the site.
goto www.epictorrents.com you will see what i mean when you do a search. thank you for you reply, ill check it out.
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Blogger Favicon
I have a blog, epictorrents.com
and i have made my own favicon. and its work brilliantly on the home page,and tabs.
However, when i run a search on the site, the favicon returns to the blogger icon. i dont want this to happen.
anyideas how i can improve the situation regarding the Favicon.
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The factual icon when you download your page is different:
<link href='http://www.blogger.c
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-- Abel --
What it means is that I do not have a definite answer for you at the moment, but that I do recognize that there's old code in your page that loads the old blog icon (see above). To avoid confusion and possible erroneous behavior, it is best to remove the old code, basically all code that retrieves data or images from blogger.com.
you can check the generated output (view source) and then check your template. Perhaps you have to delve a bit deeper (do a search) for where your favicon is. There are millions of blog softwares, I don't know how yours works exactly, I can only point you to where you should look. The line to look for to be removed is in my post above.
Just checked again with an uncached request to your site. See screenshot, it is still there.
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original favicon still there
If you look closely when you do a search on your page (esp. when you use FireBug, which is a necessity with problems like this and Web Developer Toolbar, which I set to "Disable Cache"), you'll notice that first your favicon is loaded and secondly it is replaced with the old favicon. It seems contrived, but there's an obfuscated script that does this and it starts something like 834_WidgetManager._SetSyst
I don't know where you got your templates from, but they've made it pretty impossible to remove the default favicons. In this case it seems that some widget is playing with you...
So, to summarize: the problem is with a widget. The problem is not with google, though it may be that there's a google-widget you are using. How to solve this for the widget I don't know, you should ask the widget creators... (report a bug or mail them).
-- Abel --
ok, i have a feeling it to to do with the search engine.
the search engine is run from google. and that the result are done by an iframe. is there a way to attach a piece of code that say please refer to the header for icon when placing information within the iframe??
i believe this is my problem.
on a side note. i found the tracking url from <script src='http://track4.myblogl
> i believe this is my problem.
Earlier I was under that impression too, but actually it isn't the case here. You can see so when you use Firefox and rightclick the IFrame and select This Frame > Show Only This Frame. You will see that the Google icon is then shown. In other words: not the blogger.com icon, but the google.com icon would be shown if this were indeed the problem.
Please check my last post and try to disable all widgets and then enable them one by one. It may be that the google widget is the problem. If so, check the widget code and search in it for the favicon.ico.
In lieu of that: your page still contains the wrong IE icon as said in my second comment.
-- Abel --
You're getting closer but for non-FF browsers not so close at all...:
1. The IE icon still shows on Internet Explorer, both on the homepage and the search page (see my earlier comment on how to fix that)
2. Safari and Chrome still show the B-icon of the Blogger software...
3. Opera shows the ET icon, then, when searching, shortly switches to the B-icon and then switches back to the ET-icon.
To remedy all these you'll really have to search all your templates for the icon link tags. I'm a bit surprised the Blogger doesn't have a central place to do so. But even if, like we noticed earlier, the plugins/widgets are introducing the B-icon again.
On IE you also have a JavaScript error.
Your point on making your page validate against some HTML validator (not sure you meant that, but I think you did) is a good thing. But in that you're not yet there either. A good thing to check is the DOCTYPE error on top of this list of 289 errors, but it's a good thing to solve the others too (many errors are the result of earlier errors, the list is not as long as it seems): http://validator.w3.org/ch
When valid, you'll notice that your site will have less quirky behavior and will be more easily maintainable. And perhaps your 300px border will disappear, as well as the odd-placed "TOP" ;-)
-- Abel --
hmm try is now
i have even changed the file to and type to suit. now its favicon.ico - google chrome still shows it.... and firefox doesnt... and Ie... shows nothing....
i am going to carry on googling this issue. because someone suggest that PNG was the problem.
I really have no other code in the html that has icon. here is my code to prove it. and i dont know how to edit widget codes.
> because someone suggest that PNG was the problem.
that is correct. You need an ICO for Microsoft and a PNG for all others. I just noticed that on my own site (I use WordPress), it works for all browsers except IE. So I had a good comparable case. For one reason or another, only when I changed the code such that it used a FULL URL in the <link> it worked all of a sudden, just after a Ctrl-F5 (and I always thought that icons where not often refreshed).
You can see how I did it here: http://www.undermyhat.org/
While I tested, I noticed that changing the location did not help (not even if you place it on a place where it previously wasn't but your link pointed to it). What helped for refreshing was changing the page, forcing a refresh because the page was outdated. And then, only by changing the <link> it appeared that it started looking for it again (even though you changed it to point to the same location but with a different syntax).
Anyway, long story short: to have IE find your icon, it needs to be there, the <link> needs to be there and the page needs to be renewed on the server (even if you empty the cache).
-- Abel --
A nice, almost complete reference and how-to for ICO favicons: http://www.yourhtmlsource.
that works on chrome now... and ff.
and show nothing on Ie.... getting closer. to solving it. you coding definately helped, because the original code poasting was wrong. i will have to post on my blog the correct way to do this.
can you see its changed on chrome now?
Now, i also tried it as a Jpg... which worked on chrome and ff.... why should the jpg over rule the png and the ico???
Why do I still see the following line in your code? That's likely the one that makes the B-icon appear before the ET-icon comes on Opera/Safari/Chrome.
Not sure, but it may also interfere with your IE icon. Make sure to have only two <link> statements referring to an icon in the end. The offending line:
<link href='http://www.blogger.c
Oh, and you still have a syntax error on IE, which may be yet another cause for you page (the icon) not rendering properly. I doubt it interferes, but you'll have to get rid of that at some time anyway.
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error in IE
ok let me go through these points - ill reply later or tomorrow afternoon on them,
Referencing back to an earlier point you about about the numerious errors in code on my page....i look thought that, and what is so weird is that i would suggest 180 to 200 of the problems arose from pure the google hyperlink url.... i dont know what you make of that, but there is very little i believe i can do about those collective issues.
anyway, thanks for all your help - ill reply back later as i have just said.
Since I've been the only one giving feedback in this thread, I suggest that http:#24775020 and http:#24776882 be marked as answer. The first is the most significant, detailing how to get the favicon working and the asker replies that it helped, apart from IE. In the second part, I showed him/her some errors with his/her current site that need to be addressed to get the favicon to work on IE too.
What is that with these auto-links. They hardly ever work right from the beginning. Again: http:#24775020 and http:#24776882
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by: abelPosted on 2009-06-29 at 15:28:25ID: 24740853
You mean that the search results page shows the older blogger icon? Is the search results page located on your site or does that use Google search? In either case, it is probably a cache issue. If it is located on your site, it should go away after you empty the local cache of your browser, if you use google search (or any search that moves away from your page) it is likely to show a cached older version of your page. Give Google (or the search engine) a while (can take up to a couple of weeks) to show you rnew icon.