How to Add Favicon to Blogger (blogspot)

By default a blogspot blog contains Blogger logo as its Favicon. Using your own favicon helps you to build a brand for your blog. This post explains how to add a favicon to your blogspot blogs.

Steps:

First you need to design/create/generate a favicon or get the 'readymade' favicons from the web(preferably 16x16 size).
(list of such websites are given at the end of this post)
Go to Blogger Dashboard - select Layout - click Edit HTML
Then Search(Ctrl+F) for the code given below in the header section
Add the code given below right after the above line:
Finally Save your template. You should see the favicon in your blog now!