How important is breadcrumb navigation? Are they easier to use on a big website? Pretty new to this and been reading up on website creation and there are lots of sites like this http://website.1and1.com/edit-site-navigation-quickly that talk about them. Do they take up a lot of space?
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Breadcrumbs
- Thread starter ChloeP
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Breadcrumbs can be useful for many ideas:
- If the site structure is both wide and tall in terms of page hierarchy
- If there is complex search criteria that you want to allow the user to back out of easily (ala Newegg)
How much space it takes up is up to you.
- If the site structure is both wide and tall in terms of page hierarchy
- If there is complex search criteria that you want to allow the user to back out of easily (ala Newegg)
How much space it takes up is up to you.
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There are a couple types of breadcrumbs: you have hierarchical breadcrumbs and historical breadcrumbs. The former is useful in cases where site structure is generally hierarchical (MSDN is one such example); the latter more useful in cases where the site structure is generally flat (Wikipedia is one such example).
Neither need to consume much space, and both are potentially useful.
Neither need to consume much space, and both are potentially useful.
Actually you are kind of backwards in that statement.
Google is now using breadcrumb navigation in some search results under the title to help users know what the content is categorized as on the site they would be visiting.
Using breadcrumbs never hurts as long as you implement it within your design "smart"
I for one as a user LOVE bread crumbs!!
Is what I meant is in the past google used it quite a bit in their search rankings, it seems to have lessened based on what I have seen on my sites.
Yes, they do use it in some neat ways, but that does not necessarily mean rankings
In any event, it wont hurt, can only help.
Yes, they do use it in some neat ways, but that does not necessarily mean rankings
In any event, it wont hurt, can only help.