Title: SEO breadcrumbs? Last modified: August 31, 2016 --- # SEO breadcrumbs? * [woober](https://wordpress.org/support/users/woober/) * (@woober) * [10 years, 4 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/seo-breadcrumbs/) * The product website.com/shop/productName is located in different categories, but always has the same url, no matter what category i come from. * **1. ** Will this create doublicate content/products? * **2. ** Even tho the url is the same, no matter what category you come from, but if the breadcrumbs is telling where/which category they came from, will that be a good thing.. will google care? * [https://wordpress.org/plugins/woocommerce/](https://wordpress.org/plugins/woocommerce/) Viewing 7 replies - 1 through 7 (of 7 total) * Plugin Contributor [Mike Jolley](https://wordpress.org/support/users/mikejolley/) * (@mikejolley) * [10 years, 4 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/seo-breadcrumbs/#post-7022127) * it doesn’t change dynamically or follow the user’s path – that would be extra processing, uncachable, and of little benefit. It shows the structure of the product within the site (with one parent category). * No dupe content, and I don’t think google cares. * Thread Starter [woober](https://wordpress.org/support/users/woober/) * (@woober) * [10 years, 4 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/seo-breadcrumbs/#post-7022175) * Thanks for the reply. * Thats what im thinking of changing, so please let me know, if this is a bad idea: Changing the path, so it shows what category they came from. This has a huge benefit. Which is im able to show where the user came from. So the following happens: – Menu & widget_product_categories has one active categeory(instead of all the categories its within or just the one which is highest in the that products category-tree.. parent. That category usually isnt the category they came from) – Breadcrumbs contains the category they came from. same issue as above * The active/current class in the menu etc. is really bad, since they dont get the real location of where they are at the website * Since the product-url will be /product/productName, but only has these changes: – Different breadcrumbs – .current class to widget_product_categories Will that make it unable to cache? if yes, can i make make it not cache the area i dont need it to? * Plugin Contributor [Mike Jolley](https://wordpress.org/support/users/mikejolley/) * (@mikejolley) * [10 years, 4 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/seo-breadcrumbs/#post-7022181) * I think its a bad idea. * > The active/current class in the menu etc. is really bad, since they dont get > the real location of where they are at the website * You can think of it in two ways: * 1. The location on the site is fixed – product is “within” one main product 2. The location on the site varies based on how the customer gets there * I personally think 2 is more confusing if the ‘position on site’ changes. We do it #1 way. * #2 cannot be cached because you cannot account for how users navigate around. * Thread Starter [woober](https://wordpress.org/support/users/woober/) * (@woober) * [10 years, 4 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/seo-breadcrumbs/#post-7022194) * Thanks for taking the time to explain me this. * What would you suggest i do in this example: Unisex t-shirt is located in: – Men – Women They open the product from Women category. They will now see: – Breadcrumbs: Men (should be women and now the customer is *confused..) – Both Men & Women is .current or atleast the wrong one is .current (i could remove this. which is a shame. breadcrumbs is the worst) * *confused = could probably make a better example. Point is they can get confused. They didnt come from another category. * What does all the big sites do, when the product is within multiple categories * [Found this link: wp_get_referer()](http://www.cryoutcreations.eu/forums/t/wrong-breadcrumbs-displayed). Havent tryed it. Like to know what you think, before i do anything. New to all this 🙂 [Notice this](http://www.perfectseourl.com) * Plugin Contributor [Mike Jolley](https://wordpress.org/support/users/mikejolley/) * (@mikejolley) * [10 years, 4 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/seo-breadcrumbs/#post-7022234) * Having category in the URLs is optional btw, see settings > permalinks. * Thread Starter [woober](https://wordpress.org/support/users/woober/) * (@woober) * [10 years, 4 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/seo-breadcrumbs/#post-7022239) * That result in the same problem: They open the product from Women category and it shows them, they are in the Men category. * Suggestion to reply prev. question? 🙂 * Plugin Contributor [Mike Jolley](https://wordpress.org/support/users/mikejolley/) * (@mikejolley) * [10 years, 4 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/seo-breadcrumbs/#post-7022241) * You could make use of referer, but you’d need to customise our breadcrumb function with your own code to do so. 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