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Favicon not showing in google serps
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Hi,
I have a website where the favicon is not showing in the google mobile serps. It's appearing the default icon instead (world icon).
This is the tag I have place in the head section of the website:
<link rel="shortcut icon" href="/favicon.ico" />The size of the favicon is 48x48 and it's appearing correctly in the browser tag.
I've checked that the google robot can crawl it and in the server logs I can see requests from the "Google Favicon" user-agent.
Has anyone had this same problem? Any advice?
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@kcswebs No, it has been added several weeks ago and still not appearing
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@dmalasp Has the icon just been added recently? Updates won't be instant remember and could take a few days.
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