Can I place multiple breadcrumbs on a page?

Today's question comes all the way from Tokyo, Japan, and the question is, many of my items belong to multiple categories on my ecommerce site.

Do they confuse Googlebot?

Do you properly understand the logical site structure of my site?

So that's a really interesting question.

It turns out if you do red crumbs, we will currently pick

the first one.

So I would try to get things in the right category or hierarchy as much as you can.

But that said, if an item does belong to multiple areas within your hierarchy, it is possible to go ahead and have multiple breadcrumbs on a page.

And in fact, that can in some circumstances actually help Google bot understand a little bit more about the site.

But don't worry about it.

If it only fits in one or you've only got bread crumbs for one, that's the way that most people do it.

That's the normal way to do it.

We encourage that.

But if you do have the taxonomy, the category, the hierarchy, and it's already there, and it's not like 20 different spots within your categories.

If it's in a few spots, two or three or four or something like that, it doesn't hurt to have those other bread crumbs on the page.

And then we'll take the first one that's our current behavior.

And then we might be able to do a little bit of deeper understanding over time about the overall structure of your site.

Thanks for the question.