Google removed the Favicon user agent and said you must allow Googlebot and Googlebot-Image for Google to index your site's favicon. Google has updated its favicon search developer documentation to ...

In one of the most complex and innovative hacking campaigns detected to date, a hacker group created a fake icons hosting website in order to disguise malicious code meant to steal payment card data ...

The document now says, "The favicon file must be crawlable by Googlebot-Image and the home page by Googlebot; they cannot be blocked for crawling." Previously it said, "Both the favicon file and the ...

Read more about our approach → The Direct Message methodology. Favicons occupy just 16 × 16 pixels, yet they anchor brand recognition in a sea of blue links. When that icon disappears—replaced by ...

Ever been to a Web site and wondered “How’d they get that little graphic next to the URL, and how can I do that for my site?” That graphic is called a favicon (short for favorite icon). If you’re ...

Last week, Google began rolling out some mobile search redesigns — namely, a new black label for ads and favicons for organic search results. The company said that during testing, the favicons made it ...

OK, a trivial thing but I used to be able to do a search and pull up the favicons from temp files. I would then copy these to a permanent folder and apply this location for the icon setting in my ...

I am really trying hard to understand the process webmasters and SEOs can take when it comes to first learning that their favicon was removed from Google's mobile search results page because it ...