Breadcrumbs for small website

  • Resolved dav74

    (@dav74)


    3 years, 2 months ago

    Hi – similar question for a small 4 page website. Do we really need to use breadcrumbs on such a website? This is no shop with page hierarchy. Your thoughts on that would be appreciated.

    If breadcrumbs are not needed do I simply turn off this feature in your plugin? Or do we keep it enabled as it provides breadcrumbs within the search results but not physically viewable on the website? Thanks!

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  • Plugin Author Sybre Waaijer

    (@cybr)

    3 years, 2 months ago

    Hello!

    You should do what makes most sense for the user. If HTML breadcrumbs aren’t a helpful tool on the website because there are no relationships between the pages, but they all have the homepage as their parent page, you may as well omit those breadcrumbs.

    But that was about the visual breadcrumbs. Still, you can disable the hidden breadcrumbs from TSF when your website structure is as simple as the URL structure. That means that every URL path directly relates to the page beneath it.

    For example, example.com/category/blog/ that contains blog post example.com/blog-post/ won’t portray a clear path. Whereas example.com/blog/ clearly is the parent of example.com/blog/blog-post/. WordPress does the former by default, and it is when TSF’s breadcrumbs can be helpful for search engines to make sense out of your website’s structure.

    With both types of breadcrumbs disabled, search engines will automatically determine the path based on the URL. This may not always be favorable, especially because WordPress’s URL structure doesn’t display the link-relationship well.

    • This reply was modified 3 years, 2 months ago by Sybre Waaijer. Reason: Added conclusion
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