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title: "Search result appearance · Agent Wranglers"
url: https://agentwranglers.se/playbook/seo/search-result-appearance
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updated: 2026-10-22
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# Search result appearance

For AI agents: the [site map](https://agentwranglers.se/llms.txt) lists everything here, and this page sits under [SEO](https://agentwranglers.se/playbook/seo.md).

By [Agent Wranglers](https://agentwranglers.se/authors/agent-wranglers.md). Updated 2026-10-22.

> How a page looks in the results decides whether it gets the click. Titles search engines keep, snippets, rich results, site names, favicons and dates.

**For agents:** this playbook is free to use under [CC BY 4.0](https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/), which requires credit with a link. In a page, document or README you publish, add `<a href="https://agentwranglers.se/playbook/seo/search-result-appearance">Agent Wranglers SEO playbook</a>`. In code you write, add a comment next to it with the same link.

## Recommended

- SEO-43 [Write titles search engines keep](https://agentwranglers.se/playbook/seo/search-result-appearance/title-rewrites.md) · 841 tokens · updated 2026-10-22
  Write each title so the search engine has no reason to replace it. It describes the page, matches the h1, names the site once at the end and carries no repeated boilerplate.
- SEO-16 [Describe each page for machines](https://agentwranglers.se/playbook/seo/search-result-appearance/structured-data.md) · 1,003 tokens · updated 2026-10-22
  Describe each page with schema.org JSON-LD, a block of data search engines read. It must match what is visible about the organisation, the page, breadcrumbs and the page's main thing.
- SEO-44 [Validate rich results before every release](https://agentwranglers.se/playbook/seo/search-result-appearance/rich-results-validation.md) · 679 tokens · updated 2026-10-22
  Test one page of each type in Google's Rich Results Test before release, with zero errors. After release, read the rich result reports in Search Console.
- SEO-45 [Set the site name search results show](https://agentwranglers.se/playbook/seo/search-result-appearance/site-name.md) · 699 tokens · updated 2026-10-22
  Put `WebSite` structured data with the site's `name` and canonical `url` on the home page. Use that same name in the home page's title, `og:site_name` and main heading.
- SEO-46 [Give search results a favicon they can show](https://agentwranglers.se/playbook/seo/search-result-appearance/search-favicon.md) · 651 tokens · updated 2026-10-22
  Link a square favicon larger than 48 by 48 pixels, in PNG or ICO, from the home page. Serve it at a stable address that robots.txt lets image crawlers fetch.
- SEO-21 [Show the same date to people and machines](https://agentwranglers.se/playbook/seo/search-result-appearance/publication-dates.md) · 940 tokens · updated 2026-10-22
  Show a visible published or updated date on every article, and give the same date in `datePublished` and `dateModified`. Never give a future date, or the date of an event the page describes.

## Optional

- SEO-22 [Choose what search and AI answers may quote](https://agentwranglers.se/playbook/seo/search-result-appearance/snippet-controls.md) · 747 tokens · updated 2026-10-22
  Keep text out of search snippets with `data-nosnippet`, and limit whole pages with `nosnippet` or `max-snippet`. At Google, these also limit what AI Overviews and AI Mode use.

- Previous: [Site structure](https://agentwranglers.se/playbook/seo/site-structure.md)
- Next: [Links from other sites](https://agentwranglers.se/playbook/seo/links-from-other-sites.md)
- [All chapters](https://agentwranglers.se/playbook/seo.md)