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Breadcrumbs keyword repeats
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Hi
I have a client project who's developers platform is populating the category part of the breadcrumbs with the header tag. Since these include the pages primary target keywords/phrase they are being repeated in the breadcrumbs increasing the keyword/phrase count on the page as well as repeating/duplicating the sentence.
Can this cause problems ? or not because Google knows its not part of the page content/body copy (because its a breadcrumb) ?
Cheers
Dan
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Thnaks for commenting Alrockn !
it definately fits the content of the page, just worried about it increasing kw rich word count & repeating key phrase sentence. but if i understadn u correctly then so long as fits content which it does then should be ok ?
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If it's the category that the items on the page fall into, probably not. If the inserted keyword leads back to a page outside of the category, it may be a little spammy. From what I understand, breadcrumb produces codes based on where the viewers was on the site, so if the inserted code looks like all the other dynamically produced html, I don't know how G could distinguish that, other than it doesn't fit the content on the page.
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