: Breadcrumbs and Structured Data, without a visible > on the page, plus nesting options When I add breadcrumbs soon (with microdata) - do I need to write link1 > link2 > link3 (as in the google

@Cody1181609

There is no need for the >symbol regarding to the Google Structured Data page about Breadcrumbs.

Just use a markup as shown in the example:

<ol itemscope itemtype="http://schema.org/BreadcrumbList">
<li itemprop="itemListElement" itemscope itemtype="http://schema.org/ListItem">
<a itemprop="item" href="https://example.com/arts">
<span itemprop="name">Arts</span>
</a>
</li>
<li itemprop="itemListElement" itemscope itemtype="http://schema.org/ListItem">
<a itemprop="item" href="https://example.com/arts/books">
<span itemprop="name">Books</span>
</a>
</li>
...
</ol>


Google will then insert the > in the search results by it's own.

If you want to use a separator just place them in raw <li></li> elements without the itemprop markup.

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