: How to insert homepage and current page in breadcrumbs? I'm working on breadcrumbs for a client's website, and I'm asking myself if homepage has to be in its code. I'm mostly concerned by SEO,

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I'm working on breadcrumbs for a client's website, and I'm asking myself if homepage has to be in its code.

I'm mostly concerned by SEO, not really for users navigation.

So, is it better to do :

With link to homepage and current

<div itemscope itemtype="http://data-vocabulary.org/Breadcrumb">
<a href="http://someclient.fr/" itemprop="url">
<span itemprop="title">Accueil</span>
</a>
>
</div>
<div itemscope itemtype="http://data-vocabulary.org/Breadcrumb">
<a href="http://someclient.fr/annonces" itemprop="url">
<span itemprop="title">Annonces</span>
</a>
>
</div>
<div itemscope itemtype="http://data-vocabulary.org/Breadcrumb">
<a href="http://someclient.fr/annonces/category" itemprop="url">
<span itemprop="title">Categorie</span>
</a>
</div>
<div itemscope itemtype="http://data-vocabulary.org/Breadcrumb">
<a href="http://someclient.fr/annonces/category/produit" itemprop="url">
<span itemprop="title">Produit</span>
</a>
</div>


Without link to homepage and current page

<a href="http://someclient.fr/" itemprop="url">Accueil</a> >
<div itemscope itemtype="http://data-vocabulary.org/Breadcrumb">
<a href="http://someclient.fr/annonces" itemprop="url">
<span itemprop="title">Annonces</span>
</a>
>
</div>
<div itemscope itemtype="http://data-vocabulary.org/Breadcrumb">
<a href="http://someclient.fr/annonces/category" itemprop="url">
<span itemprop="title">Category</span>
</a>
</div>
<a href="http://someclient.fr/annonces/category/produit" itemprop="url">Produit</a>


You can try this codes with Google Structured Data Testing Tool (http://www.google.com/webmasters/tools/richsnippets) and you will see that homepage is not rendered with my first example.

So, what's the best solution ? How do you do for your sites ?

Thanks !

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