Google and Breadcrumbs

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Posted in » Google, Usability - by Ades on January 18th, 2010

Implement breadcrumbs navigation in your website and Google will reflect it on its Search Results, instead of the URL path that it normally shows (see below).

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And the links in the breadcrumbs actually point to different sections of the website, just like the navigation on actual website. That’s cool.

I didn’t know they did that. Looks very user friendly to me. So, if you can, try implementing breadcrumbs in your online projects.

Breadcrumbs and Usability: www.useit.com/alertbox/breadcrumbs.html

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25 Responses to “Google and Breadcrumbs”

  1. By The Guru on Jan 18, 2010

    I did use Yoast Breadcrumbs for my blog, but it didn’t reflect in the Google Search result yet. I wonder how long will it takes to see the result.

  2. By Laptop Briefcases on Jan 19, 2010

    I agree that breadcrumbs in search results would help usability. I just wonder how Google detects breadcrumbs and which sites they display them for. It doesn’t seem to be showing up for any of my sites that have breadcrumbs.

  3. By used tires on Jan 19, 2010

    Oh now thats pretty cool, I’ve never noticed that before in the search results, I think this may finally give me the incentive to apply the navigation style to my wordpress theme on my personal blog :D

    Till then,

    Jean

  4. By Website Marketplace on Jan 19, 2010

    This is a clever idea, it seems like a no-brainer. I’ve tried getting my URL’s in this structure but I haven’t seen any results yet.

  5. By Scrap Gold Price on Jan 20, 2010

    ohh this is really cool.I can use :)

  6. By vektör on Jan 20, 2010

    I just wonder how Google detects breadcrumbs and which sites they display them for. It doesn’t seem to be showing up for any of my sites that have breadcrumbs.

  7. By Ruben | OurBlogLog on Jan 20, 2010

    I did use Yoast Breadcrumbs for my blog, but it didn’t reflect in the Google Search result yet.

  8. By Laptop Briefcases on Jan 21, 2010

    Does anyone know if Google has released documentation related to this? I’d like to set this up for my sites that have breadcrumb navigation. It helps with usability and might even improve click through rates.

  9. By drive enclosure on Jan 21, 2010

    Nice stuff that G keeps rolling out. Sometimes it’s the little tweaks like this that really help user experience.

  10. By iphone on Jan 21, 2010

    That is very snazzy! Is it selective though, like sitelinks? Mine don’t show up

  11. By living room furniture on Jan 21, 2010

    this is cool..I never heard of this before. this is worth checking out.

  12. By Rent textbooks on Jan 22, 2010

    This is great for wordpress sites with SEO categoies like yours, I mean to show Tutorials in the search results is Sweet.

  13. By Latief@AnotherBlogger on Jan 22, 2010

    I heard about this around the net this day, its really help our blog SEO they said. Is it true?

  14. By vitamins on Jan 26, 2010

    Looks pretty user-friendly to me. I just noticed this last week.

  15. By Marketing Man on Jan 28, 2010

    This is great news! Google sure isn’t resting on their laurels, and are continiously striving to make the search experience a more relevant, easy and intuitive one for users.

  16. By Tampa Real Estate on Jan 28, 2010

    I first time heard about breadcrumbs. First i’ll install on my blog and check it out.

  17. By tunepal on Feb 3, 2010

    erk..this is good..

  18. By La Digue on Feb 3, 2010

    Hey that’s absolutely nice. Google is doing a great job. Any website and its interior pages will be visible in searches. That’s classy.

  19. By Writer Jobs on Feb 3, 2010

    Thanks for letting us know how to implement breadcrumbs in our sites.

    This is pretty useful when searchers to find the site navigation easily.

  20. By Web Design Tutorials on Feb 6, 2010

    Very Good observation.

    What kind of breadcrumb navigation does GOOGLE like and appreciate?(ex. css)

    What kind of navigation doesnt it like? (ex. JavaScript, jquery,etc)

  21. By mimar on Feb 7, 2010

    First i’ll install on my blog and check it out.

  22. By executive training on Feb 11, 2010

    Nice. Google is doing another upgrade to make search process even more easy.

  23. By Marksteve on Feb 15, 2010

    What a dazzling and mind boggling, This is looking very innovative and prolific. I am really very excited to get some experience from breadcrumb navigation.

  24. By Leadership skills on Feb 16, 2010

    I am seeing this for many pages on both of our sites. It is interesting, I didn’t like it at first, but I think I’m coming around to it now when I spend more time with it. The design is better then standard link, as it gives the customer more links to click as well.

  25. By Marksteve on Feb 19, 2010

    Breadcrumbs is new for me and i heard first time, let me check it out first of all, but i hope it will be dazzling and prolific because of the google.


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