Breadcrumbs are a hierarchical website navigation links that are usually generated through code that show a user where they are at on your site using a hierarchical navigation system relative to the homepage. You have seen them before on websites, they look like the following: Home > Category > Sub category > Webpage.
Google recently started showing breadcrumbs in some of their search engine results pages (SERPS). If your site is one of the fortunate ones to have breadcrumb search results shown on Google you are lucky. Why lucky, well not only do you get the link from the original search result but underneath that you also get the additional breadcrumb result to your additional website pages.
Matt Cutts from Google has stated that in order for your website to have breadcrumb results in Google’s search engine results pages your website needs to use breadcrumbs. Breadcrumbs are still new to Google search and the rules for their uses have not been fully defined by Google. In the video below Matt discusses the use of delimiters when it comes to using breadcrumbs.
If your website doesn't currently use breadcrumbs and you have a fair amount of web pages on your site then you may want to consider adding breadcrumbs.
Posted by Web Design on Tuesday, February 2, 2010 at 09:16 Comments
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Comments by Wikipedia from United States on Tuesday, February 2, 2010 at 14:34
From Wikipedia: Breadcrumbs typically appear horizontally across the top of a web page, usually below title bars or headers. They provide links back to each previous page the user navigated through to get to the current page or—in hierarchical site structures—the parent pages of the current one. Breadcrumbs provide a trail for the user to follow back to the starting or entry point. A greater-than sign (>) often serves as hierarchy separator, although designers may use other glyphs (such as »), as well as various graphical treatments. Typical breadcrumbs look like this: Home page > Section page > Subsection page
Comments by Cheryl Stern from United States on Tuesday, February 2, 2010 at 12:21
The implementation of breadcrumbs helps me understand where I'm at on someones website. I find them very helpful.
