Trouble with favicon

  • xitsurf

    (@xitsurf)


    1 month ago

    Hello
    I am having trouble getting my Favicon showing up next to my website on google searches.
    it works fine when you open up the page – appears fine on open tab at top of screen.
    Tried many things but will not shown on google searches.
    hope this makes sense.
    This has been bugging me for about a year now so decided would ask the experts here.
    This is the latest guide i used..

    https://kinsta.com/knowledgebase/wordpress-favicon/
    I tried method one– did not work
    I have tried method 2 about a month ago- still not working.
    Hopefully someone can help…i am at the stage of paying for help if i have too
    regards Damien

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  • 4thhubbard

    (@4thhubbard)

    If I understand, your favicon appears correctly on your website but not in Google search results as the site icon?

    I looked at the Kinsta solutions but first wanted to just address some troubleshooting you may be able to do: Ensure that your favicon is correctly set up via Appearance > Customize > Site Identity. This sets the favicon as both the site icon and the app icon. Then Check the Proper Size and Format aligned with the requirements and clear the cache.

    • Make sure the <link rel="icon" href="path_to_favicon" /> is present in the <head> section of your site’s HTML. Worth checking that it’s configured correctly.
    • Ensure that your robots.txt file isn’t blocking the favicon from being crawled. The file should not have a directive that disallows access to the favicon URL.

    threadi

    (@threadi)

    The problem arises because several favicons are included in the output of your theme. One is what you see in the browser and the other is this one: https://jaysails.com.au/wp-content/themes/porto/images/logo/apple-touch-icon.png

    This is also what is currently visible in the Google search results.

    The solution would be to make these icons uniform. So you would have to use the same graphic for the Apple Touch icons.

    The support of your commercial theme Porto can tell you how to do this. You can find it here: https://themeforest.net/item/porto-responsive-wordpress-ecommerce-theme/9207399/support – questions about commercial themes cannot be answered here in the forum.

    Thread Starter xitsurf

    (@xitsurf)

    Thanks for the answers,
    Hello Mary , yes correct on site but not on google searches .
    I know that i had it set up in the site identity correctly with correct format.. but i decided that having it set up in two places might not be a good idea so just used the second method in the https://kinsta.com/knowledgebase/wordpress-favicon/ guide. I thought i read about just doing it one way??
    I will check the header section and the robots .text file .

    Problem is i am not very good at all with this stuff and it will all take me hours ,for something you guys can do in 20 minutes!!!

    Thankyou Threadi also for the suggestion about uniform Favicons- i will have to get my head around trying to figure that as well..
    hopefully one of these will help.


    I will try to look into all methods suggested …

    regards

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