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Breadcrumb Trails
One aspect of a site that can provide user friendly navigation and assist with the on page SEO work is a breadcrumb trail.
Breadcrumb Trails:
So named after the Brothers Grimms fairy tale Hansel and Gretel, where the children left a trail of breadcrumbs so they could find their way out of the dark forest.
However most breadcrumb trails used on websites are not an exact replica of a visitors journey through the site. Although this is easily accomplished, it would be simply duplicating the function of the browser "back" button. So they are mostly used to show the path to the current page.
This feature is of use from many view points;
- Usability: It gives the visitor a quick reference to where they are in the site hierarchy.
- Search Engines Results: The visitor may have arrived on the page following a link from a search engine and has not seen any previous relevant pages.
- Search Engine Optimisation: It adds another set of routes for the SE crawlers to follow and the anchor text used will add some relevancy to the target page.
