Favicon still not showing on google

  • Can someone help me to resolve the issue I have where my favicon isn’t showing for mobile on Google, I’m still seeing the wordpress symbol next to the entry on Google. I’ve tried everything resizing crawling as well as adding the favicon to my cpanel and entering the code lines below within the theme header

    
<link rel="icon" href="https://yourwebsiteurl.com/favicon.ico" type="image/x-icon" />
<link rel="shortcut icon" href="https://yourwebsiteurl.com/favicon.ico" type="image/x-icon" />

    Its still not working, please help its driving me mad and before anyone suggest I’ve followed the google recommendations, this site was built on the wordpress elementor plugin. There must be a fix please can someone assist.

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  • Anonymous User 14808221

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    If the issue is narrowed to only one browser kind on mobile the first thing I would try is to clear cache of the mentioned browser.

    Mobiles do cache differently than desktops and often it is not enough reloading the page, instead you have to clear cache, which can even mean that you need to do that in the Settings of your phone rather than in the browser itself.

    Another thing I noted is that you added the type attribute, however that is not required/suggested as far I know, see https://developers.google.com/search/docs/advanced/appearance/favicon-in-search > attributes
    Only rel and href are mentioned.
    I know that some blogs show the type as well, but I never add it since google plain simple does not mention it at all, neither in the icon, nor in the shortcut.

    Finally, another thing that can influence the Icon in search results is the size of the favicon provided, but since you mentioned to have followed the guidelines I assume that is no the cause – other wise make sure to not provide 16*16 favicon.

    These steps have always worked fine for me, perhaps it helps you too..

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