How important Breadcrumb Navigation in wordpress?

Discussion in 'Search Engine Optimization' started by wordpecker, Nov 30, 2011.

  1. #1
    Hi Experts,
    Please let me know the importance of breadcrumb navigation hierarchy. I have not used this technique but hard that it is a good practice to use this. What you think?
    Thanks and regards,
    John
     
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  2. tadams

    tadams Peon

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    #2
    It is good practise, but you only really see the effect if you have a large, difficult to navigate website. For really simple sites, it's effect is negligible.
     
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  3. dcristo

    dcristo Illustrious Member

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    #3
    It is a good SEO practice but honestly rarely needed on wordpress sites with a small number of pages.
     
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    #4
    Navigation is very important and absolutely must be there in a web page, because it is one of the conditions issued by google. And this may help you


    place the above title which is located in the single.php (before doing so, it helps you backup contents of the single.php)
    good luck
     
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  5. dcristo

    dcristo Illustrious Member

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    Thats true, however breadcrumbs are not part of the main navigation and often necessary for smaller sites because the main navigation will direct you to every page on the site (or within 2 clicks).
     
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    Sometimes the lack of navigation is one reason in particular banned google
     
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    You are missing the point, breadcrumbs are NOT the main navigation links.
     
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    If you have at least 2 level deep urls (e.g. Home > level1 > leve2 ..) then breadcrumbs can be really helpful in making the navigation easy for users as well as SEs.
     
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    Where to place that code? I do not find anything like that in single.php file
    Please let me know.
    Thank you.
     
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    wordpecker Well-Known Member

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    Yah! It is working now. Do I need the same for archive, I mean category or tags it is not necessary I think? What you suggest?
     
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