Topic: Breadcrumb navigation

Breadcrumb Trails Come To AdWords

Display URLs on AdWords search ads are getting another element — breadcrumb trails, a set of links next to the URL that lets users navigate directly to relevant sections of a site. An example of a breadcrumb trail would be “Apparel > Women’s Clothing > Tops > Sweaters.” As with organic breadcrumbs, the breadcrumbs displayed […]

Google Adds Breadcrumb Support To Rich Snippets & Improves Testing Tool

The Google Webmaster Central blog announced improvements to their rich snippets feature. The improvements include a way to tell Google how you want your breadcrumb URLs to appear and an improved rich snippet testing tool. The breadcrumbs you have seen before, we have pictures here. Sometimes you don’t like how Google shows breadcrumbs in the […]

Google Showing Breadcrumb Navigation In Search Results

Confirming our previous reports, Google has announced and explained why and when it’s showing breadcrumb navigation in its search results. Google says it may show these site heirarchies “for a small percentage of search results” when it improves the search snippet with more context about the link being pointed to. What’s pretty cool is that […]

Google Testing Navigational Search Elements

I have noticed two blogs picking up on what appears to be some sort of navigational data being added to the Google search results snippet. The Red Cardinal blog posted screen shots, as did Rob Hammond at his blog. Google has confirmed this is indeed an experiment they are running, a “site navigation experiment,” they […]