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Google using Breadcrumbs in the Serps?

I came across an interesting result whilst using Google this week. The result listed breadcrumb data before the meta description in the results. I was lucky enough to see it on two related searches and obtained screenshots shown below:
breadcrumbs-serps1

The 2nd result:

breadcrumbs2

Unfortunately I haven’t been able to see it since when performing searches but after a little further research it turns out I haven’t been the only person to see strange things in the serps regarding breadcrumbs. Rob Hammond also came across some strange results which utilised breadcrumbs in the url structure of the search results. Screenshot below:

motability

As for the seo implications of this, it’s too early to tell as its obviously just a test but it does show that google can read and understand breadcrumbs. Has anybody else seen anything like this in the serps?

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3 Comments For This Post

  1. MikeNo Gravatar Says:

    Hey Leo, saw your comment on my post on breadcrumbs in Google SERPS.
    Interesting that they are playing around with where they are placing the breadcrumbs. I like it when they were placing it after the root domain basically cleaning up the dynamic url’s. I guess only time will tell with click through rates and utilization where they place them or keep displaying them at all.

  2. FrugalocalNo Gravatar Says:

    I read about this Breadcrumb activity somewhere. Apparently Google is returning specifically related pages within a website rather than just the homepage, which is great. More specific results the better.

  3. raphaelNo Gravatar Says:

    I believe will only crowd even more the results page, making it harder to find what are you looking for, easily and fast. Isn’t that the whole point for a search engine? Very often, simpler is better!

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