Comments on: 12 Effective Guidelines For Breadcrumb Usability and SEO

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By: mohanj

mohanj — Thu, 29 Nov 2012 12:09:00 +0000

I am also planning to use breadcrumb for my blog.Above points cleared my doubts.Thanks for the informative post.

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[...] to show users which section they are currently viewing. Yet again, breadcrumbs have their own, specific usability guidelines, and it is recommended that they are adhered [...]

By: Gino Lardon

Gino Lardon — Mon, 30 Jan 2012 18:21:51 +0000

Hi Justin, Brenda

Tnx for the fine article.

In a complex web application we are currently designing, we slightly refined these common guidelines for this project:

03. Show hierarchy and not history -> For some screens that can be opened from different locations and cannot be reached via the hierarchy, we do show the history since it is important to know from which location the user is coming.

08. Simple link for each level -> The links are not clickable on pages with forms in edit mode to avoid the users are leaving the form without explicitly submitting or canceling the form.

10. Not be cluttered -> To improve accessibility, the ‘You are here’ label is available in the HTML but hidden via CSS-positioning.

Feedback welcome!
Gino Lardon

By: Dinesh@VB6 Programs

Dinesh@VB6 Programs — Thu, 05 Jan 2012 11:56:31 +0000

Hello, Using breadcrumbs can lead to lose ranking in Google ?

Without using it we have benefits like when user searches for a query then Google also matches keywords in URL as well i.e. important URL structure that may get disabled due to use of breadcrumbs.. Please reply… Thanks in advance..

By: Justin

Justin — Wed, 28 Dec 2011 08:51:24 +0000

Hi Ani,

That is true and I totally agree with your point. Thanks for mentioning it.

Cheers,

Justin

By: Justin

Justin — Wed, 28 Dec 2011 08:48:37 +0000

Hi Brenda,

The principles explained here are the same. Remember that breadcrumbs are navigation aids. Where I work we do develop web-based applications and we use the same principles.

Moreover with the way web-based applications look like, they are resembling web sites more than ever. It’s an issue of familiarity more than anything else so web application users will already know how to use breadcrumbs since they are also web users.

Cheers,

Justin

By: Ani Lopez

Ani Lopez — Tue, 27 Dec 2011 18:32:02 +0000

Besides all the nice advice you added to this post for the SEO part of it, what makes Search Engines, Google mostly, show breadcrumbs in SERPs is having URLs properly organized in folders or directories.

Following your example, something like:
mylibraries.com/music/led-zeppelin/phisical-graffiti.html
better than
mylibraries.com/music-led-zeppelin-phisical-graffiti.html

By: Brenda

Brenda — Thu, 22 Dec 2011 07:54:39 +0000

Do you have any guidelines for using breadcrumbs in web applications as opposed to content rich e-commerce or informational sites? Same or different principles here?

Thanks,

Brenda