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Breadcrumbs or breadcrumb trail is a navigation aid used in user interfaces. It allows users to keep track of their locations within programs or documents.

Breadcrumbs or breadcrumb trail is a navigation aid used in user interfaces. It allows users to keep track of their locations within programs or documents.

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Should the first breadcrumb not be the home page?

This question has been asked a few times but I came across something that I feel changes the answer. Whenever I use breadcrumbs on my site, I always include a link to the home page. Since I usually use an icon, I do something like this:
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Recommended approach for implementing breadcrumbs

I want to implement breadcrumbs on a website, now I'm struggling on how to best implement them. Users can search for products but can also navigate to a product category to find a product. On a product page the user can click on a product category…
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For Google Rich Snippets, should the last item in a breadcrumb be a link?

A website has the following breadcrumb trail when on the "Labrador" page: Services > Squirrel Chasing > Labrador As you may notice, the current page is not linked to. (There is an internal reason with a difficult solution.) The last item in…
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Breadcrumb using Schema.org rich snippets

I am having problems implementing the breadcrumb rich snippets from schema.org. When I construct my breadcrumb using the documentation and run via Google Rich Snippet testing tool, the breadcrumb is identified but not shown in the preview.…
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Schema.org or Data-Vocabulary.org for breadcrumbs?

Google and other SEs support Schema.org for marking up structured data, but it turns out that for breadcrumbs Google recommends using Data-Vocabulary.org instead. Which should we use for having breadcrumbs appear in search results? I noticed that…
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H1 in bread crumb bad for SEO?

The design of my website looks good, but trying to put a main big heading at the top doesn't look as nice. But I know how important a H1 tag is for SEO , after all it is the main heading describing the page the visitor is on. That being said, I…
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Star rating not showing in rich snippets

We've recently been doing a lot of work on our site's SEO (www.betterthanreviews.com). We recently did a push to update the rich snippets breadcrumb, meta description, and star rating. After giving Google some time to index the site, it has updated…
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Should I add category page number to breadcrumbs on product page

I am currently working on a website which has paginated content. It is a list of products. There are many categories, but for simplicity, let's assume that I have just one category with many pages. I have implemented pagination in such a way that…
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Can one spread rich snippet breadcrumbs markup all over a page?

From here, we have an example of a rich snippet breadcrumb implementation: ...
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How long it takes to get the breadcrumbs to show up in Google SERP?

I have a site that runs since 4 months now with category and products. I put breadcrumbs on my page but I still don't see them in the SERP. I use the Google breadcrumbs help page to create them.
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Breadcrumbs in H1 - How does it affect Google?

Is it good for Google? Like this:

Home >> Services >> Toilet cleaning >> Showcase

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Can I change the name of my site as shown in the mobile search results on Google?

I'm working on a wp site that is displaying the incorrect name of the brand for Google search results. This only happens on a phone/mobile. Each search result is in a card with a little breadcrumb result at the top. The title displays normally, but…
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h1 including breadcrumb links

Is there any precedent or testing of using a breadcrumb list of separate links (and current page text) within an h1 and search engine algorithms? I'm using nested navigation on a travel site. So imagine a breadcrumb might be: Great…
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Structured Data Breadcrumb errors: title and url is missing

I just ran a test and I received two errors on all my product pages in the breadcrumb (2) section of Googl Structured Data Tool test. It says Breadcrumb 2 has missing title and url. When i click on the error it takes me to the following piece of…
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Does a site's URL structure need to match its breadcrumb structure?

I'm working on a site where currently almost all pages have URLs like: http://example.com/page regardless of the underlying directory structure of the site. For example in that page the breadcrumb is homepage->category1->subcategory1->page I'm…
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