Hello, My favicon icon shows on safari tabs and I have uploaded all files I think. Google suggests that the file should be at the root folder, or that I should add some code to the header
Can someone take a look to see if I have gone wrong - I added the website to google search console and it says it has crawled the site. I have also uploaded a robots/sitemap file etc.
I’m not an expert on Search results + Fav icons, so I asked Chat GPT, here’s what it came back with:
1. Google doesn’t guarantee favicons in SERPs.
Even if everything is set up perfectly, Google may just not show it. Their systems choose when to display a favicon.2. Google caches favicons heavily.
It can take days or even weeks for Google to refresh. If the favicon was added recently, Google may still be using an old cached state.3. Google expects a very specific setup.
If any of these are off, the favicon won’t appear:
- A valid
<link rel="icon" href="/favicon.ico">or PNG must be referenced.- The file must be reachable at
https://www.domain.com/favicon.ico.- File must be 48×48px minimum, square, supported format (ICO, PNG, SVG).
- No redirects or blocked resources.
4. Your favicon markup matters.
If the theme or CMS injects overly fancy favicon links, Google often ignores them. It wants the simplest, cleanest<link rel="icon">in the<head>.
After doing a little more digging, people say Google strongly expects and favours a .ico file in the root (not something Elements does currently).
So, I’d suggest creating a favicon.ico of your logo and uploading it to the root of your webserver, then add the following line of code to the template of your project.
<link rel="icon" href="/favicon.ico" type="image/x-icon">
Ask google to re-index your site (you can do this via Google Search Console), and give it a few days to see if it then appears.
I don’t know if this will work, but it’s what I’d do (and am going to do as I noticed the Realmac logo is also missing in search results).
Fingers crossed.
Edit: I just used this online tool to convert a png into a .ico file…
Thanks Dan - I have tried that and report back if it works…
I found I have the same issue. I have two sites, one used the other as a template. The favicon settings are exactly the same in both. Oddly, only one shows the favicon in Google search, or DuckDuckGo for that matter. No idea why but I had the non working site open so threw that bit of code in and republished. Went to get it re-indexed and this is what the Google Console was showing me this with a working favicon -
So who knows where it is picking it up from?
