Website Favicon No Longer Appears in Google, Tried Everything

  • Hello,

    For many months now, my website favicon stopped appearing in Google listings. I researched and tried everything to correct the issue. Google has the wrong favicon appearing.

    I uploaded Favicon512x512_2.ico to…
    WordPress >> Appearance >> Theme Options >> General Settings >> Favicon

    I uploaded the same favicon.ico 512×512 to my website’s root directory.

    Clearing my web browsers cache does nothing. I tried different web browsers and incognito.

    After researching this issue, I was told the html should appear as… 

    <link rel="icon" href="/path-to-favicon/favicon.ico" type-"image/x-icon">

    When I looked at the page source of my Home page, I found…

    <link rel="icon" href="/favicon.ico

    Could my favicon issue be related to an incorrect favicon html?

    If so, how do I correct it.

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  • The URL /favicon.ico is OK and loading. But the size is not what Google likes, see https://developers.google.com/search/docs/appearance/favicon-in-search?hl=en

    “Your favicon must be a multiple of 48px square, for example: 48x48px, 96x96px, 144x144px and so on”

    Thread Starter pbsbluejay

    (@pbsbluejay)

    Thanks, but I was told the size has to be in multiples of 16×16 which are all the sizes you gave me and this would include 512×512 (16 x 32). I tried some of those sizes months ago and still my favicon didn’t appear. I was told to try 512×512. After waiting for weeks, still my favicon doesn’t appear in Google.

    I think the issue exist someplace else.

    I cannot check Bing because my site is deindexed right now.

    Thread Starter pbsbluejay

    (@pbsbluejay)

    After watching a YouTube video, I went into my theme’s Header.php file to edit.

    I found, <link rel=”icon” href=”/favicon.ico”>

    And replaced it with…

    <link rel="icon"  type="image/x-icon">

    Then I went into GSC to request indexing. I’ll see if Google recognizes and uses my favicon instead, hopefully in a few days.

    My correct favicon has always appeared in my website pages/posts tabs.

    BTW, I was informed, “A favicon size of 512×512 pixels is used for WordPress and is recommended for displaying well on phones and desktops”

    • This reply was modified 1 month, 2 weeks ago by pbsbluejay.
    • This reply was modified 1 month, 2 weeks ago by pbsbluejay.

    Looked at your site and I see a favicon that looks like a TV set with an orange/white ball surrounded with a blue area with three white dots below it on a black background. I did a search for your site on Google and see that it has White hand on a red background.

    Looking at the media images that Firefox shows in the Page Info dialog, it does show an image that looks like the one Google is using:

    https://internettvdotcom.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/11/Touch-Icon-for-iOS-and-Android.png

    Looks like this line of code is referencing it:


    <link rel="apple-touch-icon-precomposed"  />

    Perhaps Google is using this image instead. Might try changing that one to the image you want as well.

    All I can think of.

    Mark H.

    Thread Starter pbsbluejay

    (@pbsbluejay)

    Yes, the correct favicon is https://internettvdotcom.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/10/favicon.png

    Google gave me the other favicon (orange with white image) almost a year ago when this change occurred. I had the wrong favicon size in the beginning. Tried correcting my favicon to multiples of 16×16 but didn’t work no matter what size I tried.

    My favicon512x512 code is currently in the header…

    <link rel="icon"  type="image/x-icon" />

    I also uploaded the favicon.ico to the root of my site months ago. Didn’t do a thing for me. Then I did one more thing as I explained above when replacing the code in my theme’s header.

    When looking at the page source, I do see… 

    <link rel="apple-touch-icon-precomposed"  />

    But the code above or any part of it is no where to be found when going to…

    WP-Content >> Themes >>My Theme Name >> header.php

    I even tried searching for… apple.

    The instructions I read says…

    1. Check your theme’s <head> section in header.php for the <link rel="apple-touch-icon-precomposed> tag.
    2. Remove or modify this line if it’s interfering, especially if you don’t need the Apple touch icon.

    Easy-Peasy, right? But that code isn’t there to replace. Looks like Google made sure I can’t replace it and don’t want to give me my favicon no matter what I try to do.

    I contacted Google support community about the favicon issue sometime ago, and got nowhere. I was told to wait on Google to crawl my site again and it’s been weeks now.

    This issue may also be related to my site being penalize with 90% of page rankings disappearing from Google listings. I’ll get back to Google with an update on what I did recently to try to correct the favicon issue that failed.

    Thread Starter pbsbluejay

    (@pbsbluejay)

    I think I have the Favicon issue resolved.

    Someone else helped me think further into this issue. I found where https://internettvdotcom.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/11/Touch-Icon-for-iOS-and-Android.png was coming from. I went to my ‘Theme Options’ section that has the Favicon image there as well.

    Also, there’s a Touch icon image which is the same image appearing in the Google listings instead of my Favicon.

    I uploaded/replaced both the Favicon image and Touch icon image with Favicon.png 192×192. I uploaded that image in my Site Identity section as well.

    I also uploaded my Favicon.ico 192×192 in the root directory of my site.

    For months, I thought Google was responsible for the orange with white image inside appearing on Google that replaced my Favicon. But that image was in my Theme Options >> General Settings the whole time.

    My Favicon image wasn’t right so Google defaulted to my ‘Touch icon image’.

    I think the Favicon issue will be resolved now. Just waiting for Google to crawl my site.

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