Display website icons in Google search to enhance website image
📅January 17, 2020
👤Lee
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🔄Last Updated: January 28, 2020
If you frequently use Google search, you should have noticed that Google's latest search page now prioritizes displaying site icons and URLs. So, how can you make your website also have an icon in Google search results? Just like the effect shown in the image below.To display the site logo icon in Google search results is very simple. Most foreign trade independent website users build their sites with WordPress. We can directly use WordPress's built-in theme customization function to achieve this. Specific method: Log in to the WordPress Admin Dashboard, select Theme Customization, then find the Site Icon settings, and upload an image.If you are not using WordPress, how can you display it? You can manually add a favicon to the webpage code. Implementation method one: Use FTP to upload a favicon.ico file to your website's root directory. Most browsers will automatically read this file. Implementation method two: Add the following content to the webpage header code.Replace wikipedia.ico here with your own .ico icon address. In addition to displaying the site icon, Google's recent search results redesign seems to have made a website's domain name more important again. So, choosing a memorableDomaincan also improve the website's brand image.Additional update:I just checked a client's website and found that even after setting the icon in WordPress, it was not displayed. It's unclear if this is because it's a new site. It is recommended to also manually upload a favicon.ico to the website's root directory. Update 2: On January 28th, it was discovered that Google seems to have removed the site icon feature from the results again.
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To display the site logo icon in Google search results is very simple. Most foreign trade independent website users build their sites with WordPress. We can directly use WordPress's built-in theme customization function to achieve this. Specific method: Log in to the WordPress Admin Dashboard, select Theme Customization, then find the Site Icon settings, and upload an image.
If you are not using WordPress, how can you display it? You can manually add a favicon to the webpage code. Implementation method one: Use FTP to upload a favicon.ico file to your website's root directory. Most browsers will automatically read this file. Implementation method two: Add the following content to the webpage header code.Replace wikipedia.ico here with your own .ico icon address. In addition to displaying the site icon, Google's recent search results redesign seems to have made a website's domain name more important again. So, choosing a memorableDomaincan also improve the website's brand image.Additional update:I just checked a client's website and found that even after setting the icon in WordPress, it was not displayed. It's unclear if this is because it's a new site. It is recommended to also manually upload a favicon.ico to the website's root directory. Update 2: On January 28th, it was discovered that Google seems to have removed the site icon feature from the results again.
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