Well, it looks like the hyped launch of Butterfly Marketing 2 is almost over with. Did you get your copy? From what I have heard, Mike is leaving the site up with the promotional price until sometime today…NO, I won’t have an affiliate link for it!

What I do have today is something that I stumbled across the other day and I think it’s pretty cool.

Take a look at the address bar in your browser. See that image to the left of the url? That’s a ‘mini’ version of the picture in the header banner and when you bookmark this site, that picture will be to the left of the text in the bookmark.

Go ahead, try it now. After you add my site to your favorites, when you go back to the list, you should see the mini image of me next to the text of the site.

Pretty cool huh?

If it doesn’t show up in Internet Explorer, try it in FireFox, I know it works there.

I know your next question is ‘how do I do that?’

Well, really it’s fairly easy if you aren’t afraid of digging in to the coding on you site.

First of all, you will need get the ‘favicon’ image that you will upload to your webhost. As I said earlier, I found this site while cruising around looking for a couple of other things:

Dagon Design

What you will do is click the browse button and find the image you want to turn in to your favicon icon and then follow the rest of the instructions.

Once you have downloaded it, you will need to upload the image to your host using your favorite ftp client (I use FileZilla). Upload it to the root of your website.

Now, depending on whether you have a ‘regular’ website (in other words, you have designed, or someone else has, the html coding) or a wordpress site, is how you will proceed next.

If you have a regular site, all you need to do is open the ‘index.html’ file in your editor and in between the <head> and </head> section of the coding, you will insert this code:

<link rel=”icon” href=”http://www.yourwebsitename.com.com/favicon.ico” type=”image/x-icon”>
<link rel=”shortcut icon” href=”http://www.yourwebsitename/favicon.ico” type=”image/x-icon”>

You may or may not have to put the entire URL there, but just for ‘safety sake’ I include it.

If you are using a wordpress theme for your site, you will need to do something a bit different. Depending on what version of wordpress you are using (I am on version 2.7.1) will be how you will make the changes.

First of all, go into your admin panel and select Appearance and then Editor. On the right hand side, select ‘header.php’ and you will be brought to the editor window.

You will want to find the code that looks similar to this:

<link rel=”shortcut icon” href=”<?php bloginfo(‘template_url’); ?>/favicon.ico” type=”image/x-icon” />

Once you have found it, then you can proceed to edit the code to get the favicon to appear in the address bar. Just like this:

favicon editor

Once you have that done, click on ‘update file’ at the bottom of the window and open another browser window and check the site. If you have done everything correctly, you should see the favicon in the address bar.

Congratulations! You have just edited code!

Next post I am going to have some information on a ‘new’ way to do redirects. You absolutely must be doing it this way if you are doing ANY affiliate marketing at all!

Til then, don’t forget to sign up for my Internet Marketing Insights newsletter for more ‘inside’ information on Internet Marketing along with the ‘Relationship Marketing’ series.

Here’s to YOUR Successes,

Ron