{"id":16277,"date":"2026-08-20T11:46:11","date_gmt":"2026-08-20T11:46:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/craighordlow.com\/index.php\/2026\/08\/20\/spike-in-complaints-on-favicons-disappearing-from-google-search\/"},"modified":"2026-08-20T11:46:11","modified_gmt":"2026-08-20T11:46:11","slug":"spike-in-complaints-on-favicons-disappearing-from-google-search","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/craighordlow.com\/index.php\/2026\/08\/20\/spike-in-complaints-on-favicons-disappearing-from-google-search\/","title":{"rendered":"Spike In Complaints On Favicons Disappearing From Google Search"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>In the past couple of days, I have seen a spike in the number of complaints around favicons disappearing from the Google Search result snippets.  The complaints started a couple of days before Google&#8217;s August 2026 spam update, so I doubt they are related to that, but they have indeed spiked.  It makes me think that Google changed something on its end, versus all these site owners making a technical change.<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In the past couple of days, I have seen a spike in the number of complaints around favicons disappearing from the Google Search result snippets. The complaints started a couple of days before Google&#8217;s August 2026 spam update, so I doubt they are related to that, but they have indeed spiked. It makes me think that Google changed something on its end, versus all these site owners making a technical change.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"h5ap_radio_sources":[],"cybocfi_hide_featured_image":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[61],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-16277","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-se-roundtable"],"featured_image_src":null,"featured_image_src_square":null,"author_info":{"display_name":false,"author_link":"https:\/\/craighordlow.com\/author\/craig\/"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/craighordlow.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16277","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/craighordlow.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/craighordlow.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/craighordlow.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/craighordlow.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=16277"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/craighordlow.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16277\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/craighordlow.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=16277"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/craighordlow.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=16277"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/craighordlow.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=16277"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}