Adding or Displaying Site Actions Gear Icon Using Custom SharePoint Master Page

I am using a custom Master Page within my SharePoint Site in SharePoint 2013 Site. In the top right corner the Gear Icon is not displaying. But when I hover on it the place holder work and when I click on it the menu is displaying correctly.
Now I want it to display that gear icon using my custom master page.
So how can I do that? Could someone help me to solve this?
Thanks and regards, Chiranthaka

Hi,
From your description, my understanding is that you customize a master page in SharePoint 2013, and you want to display the gear icon.
I wonder if just this site cannot display the icon or each site cannot display the icon in your farm? To resolve your issue, you could check these points in your environment:
Compare current site code to other site in file seattle.master. you could find code by these steps: search code with keywords [id="siteactiontd"] in seattle.master -> compare code between tags [<SharePoint:SiteActions></SharePoint:SiteActions>].
Then check if the URL of the gear icon is correct or not as the screenshot below.
Please check if there are some CSS code may hide your gear icon in you custom Master Page.
If each site cannot display the icon, you could check if the file spcommon.png(path:..\ 15\TEMPLATE\IMAGES) is missing or not.
In addition, you could debug your code with pressing F12 to open developer tool in IE.
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03/04/2015 17:12:07.89         w3wp.exe (0x066C)
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<SharePoint:EncodedLiteral ID="EncodedLiteral3" runat="server" text="<%$Resources:wss,skipRibbonCommandsLink%>" EncodeMethod="HtmlEncode"/></a>
</div>
<div class="s4-notdlg noindex">
<a id="A2" href="javascript:;" onclick="document.getElementById('mainContent').focus();" class="ms-accessible ms-acc-button" runat="server">
<SharePoint:EncodedLiteral ID="EncodedLiteral4" runat="server" text="<%$Resources:wss,mainContentLink%>" EncodeMethod="HtmlEncode"/></a>
</div>
<div id="TurnOffAnimation" style="display:none;" class="s4-notdlg noindex">
<a id="linkTurnOffAnimation" href="#" class="ms-accessible ms-acc-button" onclick="ToggleAnimationStatus();return false;">
<SharePoint:EncodedLiteral ID="EncodedLiteral5" runat="server" text="<%$Resources:wss,master_disableanimation%>" EncodeMethod="HtmlEncode"/></a>
</div>
<div id="TurnOnAnimation" style="display:none;" class="s4-notdlg noindex">
<a id="linkTurnOnAnimation" href="#" class="ms-accessible ms-acc-button" onclick="ToggleAnimationStatus();return false;">
<SharePoint:EncodedLiteral ID="EncodedLiteral6" runat="server" text="<%$Resources:wss,master_enableanimation%>" EncodeMethod="HtmlEncode"/></a>
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<a id="HiddenAnchor" href="javascript:;" style="display:none;"></a>
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<div id="suiteBarLeft">
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<div class="ms-tableCell ms-verticalAlignMiddle">
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<SharePoint:AjaxDelta runat="server" id="DeltaSuiteLinks" BlockElement="true" CssClass="ms-core-deltaSuiteLinks">
<div id="suiteLinksBox">
<SharePoint:DelegateControl id="ID_SuiteLinksDelegate" ControlId="SuiteLinksDelegate" runat="server" />
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</div>
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<div id="suiteBarRight">
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<div id="welcomeMenuBox">
<wssuc:Welcome id="IdWelcome" runat="server" EnableViewState="false" />
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Are the above tags required in Master page? what is the use of it? I have more tags and will add after knowing the use of it in future threads.
Thanks

Hi,
According to your description, my understanding is that you want to know about the each tags useful in master page.
In SharePoint 2013 master page, there are some common tags like body tag, head tag and meta tag and some style CSS div tags. For the useful of these tags, I suggest you can refer the articles below:
Understanding HTML master pages in SharePoint 2013
In your custom master page, it will have some custom css tags depend on the display style but it is no required for master pages, if you want to know about what tags is required in master page, you can compare the custom master page with the OOTB master
page.
More information:
Create a minimal master page in SharePoint 2013
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I have a publishing site, in which i have a custom Master page.
However when doing the search in the site, the search results does not show the custom Master page.
Is it possible to set the custom created Master page for the search results page? How to achieve this?
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Hi Venkat,
The search page for a publishing site is a file available in the layouts folder (I believe it is the osssearchresults.aspx if you see the address bar). It is used by all web applications and site collections in your farm. So ideally you should not change
it. I mean you can change it to point to your master page but it is bad practice ..
I would instead do the following
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2. Custom search results is not difficult because all search results pages are made of a set of Out of the box search results web parts. If you add the same webparts to your page as the default search results page, you have effectively created a copy of
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3. go to site settings --> search settings and change the search results page to your newly created page
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Partha
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