My site icon is not showing up in google search results

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    theanxietymaster101 · Member ·

    Hello, when I google for my website, in the google search results I don’t see the favicon of my site, but rather a default one. However when I click the link and I browse my site, it does appear next to the site’s title.

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  • staff-totoro · Staff ·

    Hi there,

    If you’ve already updated your site icon and it’s still not appearing on Google, it might be due to Google’s cache still showing the older WordPress logo. To solve this problem, we recommend that you ask Google to recrawl your webpage.

    This process lets Google know about the new changes, and it should update its search index to highlight your new favicon. You can do that by setting up a Google Search Console account as guided here:

    WP
    Verify Your Site With Google Search Console
    in WordPress.com Support
    5 min read
    Verify your website with Google to measure your site’s search traffic and performance, fix issues, and make your site shine in Google’s search results. This guide will show you how to verify your site ownership to use Google Search Console. Site Verification Services While most site verification tools will ask you to add a HTML tag or meta tag to your site’s header, we’ve simplified the pr

    Also without creating a search console account, you can usually attract Google to update your site by blogging actively, and if you were to do nothing your favicon should show up in search results on it’s own in time. I hope this helps. Please let us know if there’s anything else you need assistance with.

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