Feature guides. Debug with search operators. Web Stories. Early Adopters Program. Optimize your page experience. Choose a configuration. Search APIs. Define a favicon to show in search results If your site has a favicon , it can be included in Google Search results for your site.
Implementation Here's how to make your site eligible for a favicon in search results: Create a favicon that follows the guidelines.
Google looks for and updates your favicon whenever it crawls your home page. If you make changes to your favicon and want to inform Google about the changes, you can request indexing of your site's homepage. Guidelines You must follow these guidelines to be eligible for a favicon next to your search results. Both the favicon file and the home page must be crawlable by Google that is, they cannot be blocked to Google.
To help people quickly identify your site when they scan through search results, make sure your favicon is visually representative of your website's brand. Here is an example:. You need to clear the cache in your browser or use a different browser.
Browsers like Chrome and Safari do not display favicons if they are local they have not been uploaded to a server. Chrome, for example, is only able to show the favicon if it is located in the downloads folder.
It is important to place the link to add your favicon in the right location. It needs to be placed in the header section of your webpage and not anywhere else. While if placed in the body it may work on some browsers, other browsers like Chrome will not load it. Sometimes, the reason your favicon does not show is as a result of not changing the filename. Here are the reasons why your favicon may not be showing up in Chrome:. We mentioned that Google has specific guidelines that need to be followed when adding favicons to your site.
If your icon size is 16 x16, it will not show. WordPress recommends x and Squarespace x These CMSs are able to resize the favicon to fit different scenarios. A bigger size is needed for bookmarks, for example, while a smaller size may be needed for mobile. This article explores the various favicon sizes , where they are best suited, and even the deprecated sizes. Just because the favicon file is in your root directory, it does not mean that it will automatically upload when your website loads.
Make sure that you have these links in your header:. SEO Specialist. Public Speaker. Inbound Marketer. He's Active on his Podcast on Spotify and his personal blog. What is a Favicon? How to Create a Favicon and Add It to Your Site Creating a favicon is one of the simplest things you can do — especially if you already have a logo for your website.
To simplify it in 2 steps: Upload the favicon. This approach also worked for me on Windows, where I had removed the favicon from my app, but chrome was still showing it. The old unwanted favicon is gone.
Well, overhead is overhead, but yes, not too big. Delete the favicon. Upload new one to your webroot. If that sequence doesn't work, then something else is going on. This worked for me, but sadly we can't ask every visitor to do this. Anonymous 4 4 gold badges 15 15 silver badges 34 34 bronze badges. Mitchel Sellers Mitchel Sellers Mwiza 5, 2 2 gold badges 36 36 silver badges 33 33 bronze badges.
This doesn't force reload of favicons. Works for ubuntu For Internet Explorer, there is another solution: Open internet explorer. Click "view files" button. Find your old favicon. Restart browser internet explorer. Nathan Hughes Senica Gonzalez Senica Gonzalez 7, 14 14 gold badges 61 61 silver badges bronze badges.
Why not refresh it eveyr time a page loads? It's a 2k image, which is peanuts. It should never be out of date. The whole caching idea is just silly in the grand scheme of things. Good tips there all around. Caching is a valuable tool for making sure your site runs as fast as is practical. Caching is also useful for making your browser feel as fast as possible. Simon, caching is silly?!? I hope for your clients sakes that you've learned the importance of better web development since What's "silly" is NOT caching and making unnecessary requests to your server for what amounts to be a static file that rarely, if ever, changes.
Try Opening In a New Tab I tried many of the things above resetting cache, refreshing, using the link tag, etc , I even checked my. But this is what finally worked for me in both Chrome MrUpsidown MrUpsidown When you request the favicon from Google, you can take a look at the response headers.
Dean J Dean J It also only works pre-emptively, which beats the purpose of the question. Chrome's favicon support is buggy - disregard this answer I wrote this answer under the impression that this is what it took to refresh favicons in Google Chrome.
Original answer You don't have to clear your cache, restart your browser, or rewrite your HTML - you just need to change the icon's URL, once , so that the browser will forget the previously-cached icon. Stuart P. Bentley Stuart P. Bentley 9, 7 7 gold badges 51 51 silver badges 78 78 bronze badges. Rather than appending? Chrome Version: Pascal Pascal 1, 17 17 silver badges 20 20 bronze badges.
John Conde k 97 97 gold badges silver badges bronze badges. It is back there for installation and really lookes promising you'll find the AddOn within the bookmarks menu but it also didn't reload the icon on my firefox 34 on linux without restart — rubo If you are using PHP..
Shakeel Ahmed Shakeel Ahmed 1, 14 14 silver badges 21 21 bronze badges. That is the problem "It will refresh your favicon on each page load". How about caching? The favicon should be cached. If you want to cache your new favicon.. This is not a good way of solving this problem. Using time will force it to reload the icon every single time. You want the last modified time of the favicon. Do you have any idea why? Really "like a charm". And the simpliest way.
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