[SEO] Add Microdata Breadcrumbs

[SEO] Add Microdata Breadcrumbs

Mod Version: 1.00, by tafreeh

vB Version: 4.x.x	Rating: (20 votes - 4.75 average)	Installs: 167
Released: 26 Jan 2012	Last Update: 27 Jan 2012	Downloads: 478
Not Supported Template Edits

Hello.
Before you find out what this mod does, you need to have some knowledge of https://support.google.com/webmasters/bin/answer.py?hl=en&answer=176035.

Now its time to take advantage of this wonderful feature; and we will label our breadcrumbs to describe it's type to Google for better understanding and to presenting your site better in Google search result.

In order add microdata tags in our breadcrumb here is what we need to do:

(please take backup of your template before performing following steps)

Step 1:

Find and Replace everything in navbar_link template with the following code:

Code:

<vb:if condition="$show['breadcrumb']">
<div itemscope="itemscope" itemtype="http://data-vocabulary.org/Breadcrumb">
    <li class="navbit"><a href="{vb:raw nav_url}" itemprop="url"><span itemprop="title">{vb:raw nav_title}</span></a></li>
</div>
<vb:else />
<div itemscope="itemscope" itemtype="http://data-vocabulary.org/Breadcrumb">
    <li class="navbit lastnavbit"><span><span itemprop="title">{vb:raw nav_title}</span></span></li>
</div>
</vb:if>

Step 2:

Code:

Hit Save button !!

And That's it you are done. Now you just have to wait until Google show your website in search result like this:

Also check following articles for better understanding:

https://support.google.com/webmasters/bin/answer.py?hl=en&answer=99170&topic=1088472&ctx=topic
https://support.google.com/webmasters/bin/answer.py?hl=en&answer=176035&topic=1088472&ctx=topic
https://support.google.com/webmasters/bin/answer.py?hl=en&answer=146897&topic=1088472&ctx=topic

Thank You

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Microdata_Breadcrumb.txt (460 Bytes, 508 downloads)

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