Favicon not showing in search results even with Googles Guidelines

Question

I followed the guidelines on Favicon at https://support.google.com/webmasters/answer/9290858?hl=en.

However it has been some time and mt favicon has not been indexed There are some threads on here but none showed any difinitive resolution.

I had my favicon as an .ico but i changed it to a .png recently. I also have it set as 48x48 as per googles guidelines.

Any help is apprieciated.

Website is http://veganthingsworld.com

<link rel="shortcut icon" type="image/icon" href="Images/favicon.png">

Thanks in advance.

Answer 1

On site

Hints to look at:

• Use the Google Favicon Snatcher to check your favicon as seen by Google. Yours seems okay: https://www.google.com/s2/favicons?domain=veganthingsworld.com
• Check your Google Search Console: Google displays your favicon in its interface, and the Search Console seems to be quicker than the search engine.

Off site

Of course, this feature completely depends on Google. It takes at least a few days or even weeks for Google to show your favicon in its results pages. The delay seems to depend on the popularity of your site.

The fact that Google crawled your site does not mean that your favicon will be displayed in the next few hours/days. If you are analyzing your HTTP logs, look for Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux x86_64) AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, comme Gecko) Chrome/49.0.2623.75 Safari/537.36 Google Favicon (the user agent is different from the regular search engine user agent).