The breadcrumb trail is of immense value for usability and SEO value, so it is amazing how so many neglect to see the,. For your site, the breadcrumb trails is best served as: Hope Page » Section Name Category name Page name - Page description The symbol used to separate each element is a buillemet (»), which indicated the direction of travel (down through the levels of your site) and is rendered as » in HTML Note that each of the breadcrumb elements is linked to the relevant page in the navigation, so the section name links, for example, takes you to the section page. Example Geografixx Business Printing - Business Printing - Business cards - Luxury Business Cards - Design and Order Luxury Business Cards Online It may not surprise you to learn that this is absolutely perfect as a breadcrumb trail. You just simply reproduce the trail above at the top of the page, using 9 point Verdana, color gray and replacing the dash with a guillemet. Each of the elements is appropriately linked. Find more SEO tips at http://www.geografixx.com/articles
Question: SEO-wise, does each of the links in the breadcrumb trail count as an "internal link" in, for example, Google Webmaster Tools? P.S. Green rep added for a nice post from a new member.
I learned something new. Since breadcrumb helps in SEO i am adding to my two sites who are crawling to death
I'm assuming a bread crumb trail can be used getting a link to lead a bot to a page that needs to get indexed.
Breadcrumb link may count as an internal link. Many CMS has this feature built-in - display breadcrumbs for child pages. This facility available in Joomla CMS.
I think we often don't notice the importance of breadcrumbs in the site. Aside from the common navigation schemes. Breadcrumbs can help in the usability of the site to go back to where you started or a page on the site you want to view again without going to the home page.
For wordpress user, there are a lot of breadcrumb plugin that you can try by yourself, my preferable is this one: http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/breadcrumb-trail/ http://mtekk.weblogs.us/code/breadcrumb-navxt/
I agree with the points. Also, Google just introduces hierarchy links in its search results (see http://googleblog.blogspot.com/2009/11/new-site-hierarchies-display-in-search.html), so if you are using breadcrumbs in your website, Google can also show internal links with your website search result.
im confused ... pls can some1 explain a bit more about these "breadcrumb links" ?? and is it only for cms based websites??
No fbwebmaster it can be used for all websites. By the way the first post is leached from www.seo-expert-services.co.uk and is based on a printing company in the UK. The original author is David Viney who is a leading SEO expert. minus rep to original poster.