What is Breadcrumb?
 

Can anyone tell me, What is Breadcrumb? How effective is it for SEO?

Breadcrumb is mainly used in the large website or Ecommerce websites to track the path of the user from the first page to the page where they are currently in. Breadcrumbs is mainly used for navigation to fulfill the user's experience.

Breadcrumbs are links that allow a user to track their path from the page they are currently viewing to the home page of your website. They appear close to the top of your page and reflect the structure of your site.

breadcrumb
ˈbrɛdkrʌm/
noun
noun: breadcrumb; plural noun: breadcrumbs; noun: bread-crumb; plural noun: bread-crumbs; noun: breadcrumb trail; plural noun: breadcrumb trails

1.
a small fragment of bread.
2.
a series of connected pieces of information or evidence.
"federal agents stood by in the hope that the trail of breadcrumbs would lead to a Mexican drug cartel"
a hierarchical series of hyperlinks displayed at the top of a web p

Breadcrumbs typically appear horizontally across the top of a Web page, often below title bars or headers. They provide links back to each previous page the user navigated through to get to the current page or—in hierarchical site structures—the parent pages of the current one.

Breadcrumbs allow a user to retrace their steps from your home page to the page that they’re currently viewing. They can reflect the structure of your website, a logical path or attributes of the current page.

a list of what breadcrumbs can do to improve your SEO:

- They can point keywords to certain pages while helping search engines to see how one page relates to another on your website. When used in a hierarchy, this improves SEO done to both your category pages and your innermost pages.
- They reinforce and improve your website’s internal linking structure. Pairing breadcrumbs with contextual linking to other related pages will result in larger gains when off-site SEO is applied.

Breadcrumbs or breadcrumbs trail is a graphical control element used as a navigational aid in user interfaces. It allows users to keep track of their locations within programs, documents, or websites. The term comes from the trail of bread crumbs left by Hansel and Gretel in the fairy tale of the same name.

A “breadcrumb” (or “breadcrumb trail”) is a type of secondary navigation scheme that reveals the user’s location in a website or Web application.

A series of connected pieces of information or evidence.

Breadcrumbs are links that allow a user to track their path from the page they are currently viewing to the home page of your website. They appear close to the top of your page and reflect the structure of your site.

A series of connected pieces of information or evidence.

Breadcrumbs are links that allow a user to track their path from the page they are currently viewing to the home page of your website. They appear close to the top of your page and reflect the structure of your site.