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Stop leaving out the valuable breadcrumb trail

I am seeing more and more sites that are coming online everyday leaving out the all so valuable breadcrumb trails. This is a must when you are performing SEO and leaving this out could effect your rankings quite seriously.

Basically a breadcrumb is a navigational link abit like a site map but should be implemented as a trail to where that page is located in a site – for example if I went onto a site to buy bicycles and I went to page 4 I would expect to see a breadcrumb trail as follows – Bicycles Home > Bicyle Types > 3 wheel Bikes> Yamaha.

As you notice it all links back to the homepage thus giving the homepage the authority status so I recommend chucking in a targetted main keyword there.

Breadcrumbs are a very important factor to all SEO efforts these days and should not be left out. The reason I am blogging about this is because I see so many so called SEO Gurus not implementing this nor using the benefit of anchor texts correctly on there site. For example using “Read More”, why not ellaborate on this? why not show the users and the search engines what you want them to read more about targetting your main keywords “Read more information on bicycles and motorbikes”, quick and prompt your telling them what information there will be if they click that link.

Please all fellow SEOs dont forget onpage optimization is still vital in obtaining good quality rankings

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This entry was posted on Saturday, April 12th, 2008 at 12:39 pm and is filed under SEO Knowledge. You can follow any responses to this entry through the RSS 2.0 feed. You can leave a response, or trackback from your own site.

17 Responses to “Stop leaving out the valuable breadcrumb trail”

  1. Stempel says:
    November 3, 2008 at 11:12 pm

    Thank you for this important ponint, breadcrumbs are also important for every visitor on the website, it’s an important way of navigation, of course also for the search engines!

  2. Essex Web Designer says:
    December 1, 2008 at 5:38 pm

    There’s nothing really to add, this is a great article. I know about the breadcrumb trail and try to implement it in all of new websites I develop. Pretty difficult to enchance the old ones though.
    The main point here is navigation. Not so sure about search engines though.

  3. Anuradha Khanna says:
    December 16, 2008 at 11:02 am

    Thanks for the valuable information. I’ll keep your site handy for future reference.

  4. Lafayette LA Lawyer says:
    December 17, 2008 at 6:53 pm

    I need to add this to my navigation. Something that I overlooked during the first design….thanks for the reminder.

  5. Adding breadcrumb trails in wordpress says:
    January 8, 2009 at 10:21 am

    Part of the problem in wordpress is making the breadcrumb work – there’s no simple way to do it. I’ve ended up hacking the core files. There are some plugins which are simpler for the end user. But all in all, it’s not an easy thing to pull off – and made worse if you add posts to more than one category etc. It’s important to think through your categories and set hard and fast rules about what goes where if you’re going to use a breadcrumb trail.

  6. Rathan says:
    February 1, 2009 at 11:22 pm

    Please all fellow SEOs dont forget onpage optimization is >still vital in obtaining good quality rankings

    100% agree

    PS Nice seo site.
    Thanks

  7. Gary Winnick says:
    February 28, 2009 at 10:34 am

    Good and helpful post. Thanks

  8. Guest says:
    April 6, 2009 at 3:16 pm

    Is there a Wordpress plugin, which automatically creates a breadcrumb for all the pages on your blog.

    Nice info.

  9. estetik says:
    April 13, 2009 at 1:39 pm

    Great post. Thanks a lot.

  10. fuadi says:
    April 23, 2009 at 5:29 pm

    i’ll try to my blog. Thanks for share.. :)

  11. Leonard Casci says:
    May 29, 2009 at 5:28 am

    Great Post! :) thanks for share..

  12. Max Keith Gates says:
    June 4, 2009 at 10:55 am

    I didn’t knew the value of breadcrumb links. Thanks for the artice I will start placing them on my website right away. Before that I wanted to know how many breadcrumb links should be placed on a page?

  13. Jess says:
    July 16, 2009 at 4:13 pm

    I am sure that this is pretty important to talk between people who works in SEO, thanks for the info i goint to talk with my collegues about this and the long tail!

  14. Scottsdale Chiropractor says:
    July 19, 2009 at 1:10 am

    I will have to implement these into my current design. Is there a plugin that will do that for WordPress that actually works? I have been having issues with some that crash the theme when activated.

  15. lynnscott says:
    September 14, 2009 at 11:01 am

    Good post you have given a diffrent overview on how important breadcrumbs are…I try to make it simply..Thanks

  16. Naoko says:
    September 16, 2009 at 7:11 am

    Thank you for the great information, I currently switched to wordpress and still have alot to learn. I will read your other tips on SEO..

  17. Alex says:
    December 9, 2009 at 1:05 am

    Hmm…this is something I never thought of… Yes, what you say is definitely meaningful and is very good for SEO…just wondering why I didn’t think of it earlier… anyway, I will be looking into and implementing this sooner rather than later…kudos :)

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