Category Breadcrumbs

Category Breadcrumbs

$5/month. 10-day free trial.
Rating (4.4)
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Highlights

Built for your business
  • Use directly in Shopify admin
  • Works with the latest themes

About this app

Launched

October 17, 2016

Languages

English

Category Breadcrumbs shows your customers a complete breadcrumb on collection and product pages.

When your customers land on your store, they don't always land on the home page. In fact, if they've found your store on a search engine, generally they arrive on a product or collection. Category Breadcrumbs shows them where they are. It shows how the current collection fits into the hierarchy of well-categorised products on your store. It adds JSON-LD, so that search engines also get a clearer picture of how your store is organised. Help your great catalogue of products get discovered!

When your customers land on your store, they don't always land on the home page. In fact, if they've found your store on a search engine, generally they arrive on a product or collection. Category Breadcrumbs shows them where they are. It shows how the current collection fits into the hierarchy of well-categorised products on your store. It adds JSON-LD, so that search engines also get a clearer picture of how your store is organised. Help your great catalogue of products get discovered! more
  • Categorise to make your products easier to find (browse for) and discover
  • Get category-based breadcrumbs from your existing standard Shopify 'Navigation'
  • Add clear breadcrumbs and JSON-LD for each collection in your category tree
  • Simply drag-and-drop in 2.0 themes, or for older 1.0 themes code in an embed
  • Supports themes 2.0, long-form URLs and even short-form URLs with metafields

Pricing

10-day free trial

Basic

$5/month

Basic

$5/month

All charges are billed in USD. Recurring and usage-based charges are billed every 30 days.

31 reviews

Overall rating
4.4
Counts per rating level
  • 87% of ratings are 5 stars
  • 3% of ratings are 4 stars
  • 3% of ratings are 3 stars
  • 0% of ratings are 2 stars
  • 6% of ratings are 1 stars
November 7, 2023

Ive been using this app for almost a year and it does exactly what it's supposed to. Recently for some reason I was getting an error on schema markup and sent the info to Alex. Within an hour an half it was corrected and I was able to resubmit the pages to Google for indexing. Great support and customer service! Thank you!

BalSata
United States
11 months using the app
Zoom Buzz replied November 28, 2023

Thanks for posting this great review. Yes, I'm always trying to make functional improvements or added metadata to help with SEO. The app supports the BreadcrumbList schema in JSON-LD, which is now rendered server-side at page-load time.

November 27, 2023

When I first started using this app, it didn't have the feature I needed (support for Shopify's own multilanguage app). I suggested it and only few weeks later they came back that this has been added to the app. Superb and works really well now!

Urban Kit Supply
Finland
12 days using the app
Zoom Buzz replied November 28, 2023

Thanks for the review. I'm always trying to keep pace with Shopify's evolution of the platform, so making the app multi-lingual has been a top priority. It now supports Shopify's own "Translate & Adapt" or any translation app that translates server-side rendered content. Best of luck with your store.

January 23, 2024

Volgens mij een essentiële app. Shopify toont geen broodkruimels, of toch niet op de goede manier. Dit is een mooie oplossing. Omdat elke collectiepagina, en elke soort productiepagina afzonderlijk moet ingesteld worden, kan dit wat tijd in beslag gaan nemen. Iets wat bij mij het geval was. Dus vandaar de eerlijke review om toch één ster minder te geven. Ik zou het toch alle klanten van shopify aanbevelen om deze app op zijn minst eens te proberen, en ik denk dat 95% van alle klanten graag die maandelijkse bijdrage zullen betalen. Zelf hoop ik dat dit ook de resultaten in google op een positieve manier mag beinvloeden, want hiervoor waren de broomkruimels zo goed als niet ingesteld. Ps: service is zeker wel 5 sterren waard. Snelle en waardevolle reactie en steun. We wensen jullie veel succes met jullie groei!

E-woodproducts
Belgium
About 9 hours using the app
October 16, 2023

Really great app for a more intuitive breadcrumb display. Needed some help with the way the breadcrumbs displayed on my site and Alex helped me get it sorted quickly. Highly recommend!

Black Arrow Moto Gear
Australia
8 days using the app
Zoom Buzz replied October 18, 2023

Thanks very much for your review. I'm glad I could help.

March 12, 2024

Not happy : i took the app to enhance my SEO but the app is generating canonical URLs on product pages, which is the worst for the website's SEO.

KarlandMax
France
Zoom Buzz replied March 25, 2024

It's very difficult to reply to your review because I think you've fundamentally misunderstood how Shopify works:

1. My app does not create or generate any URLs.
All URLs are generated by Shopify. For example, for every product, Shopify offer multiple URLs. There is the short-form URL, for example (https://breadcrumbs-uncomplicated.myshopify.com/products/technology-computers-desktops-g30ab).

Then there is a long-form URL for every collection that contains that product, for example (https://breadcrumbs-uncomplicated.myshopify.com/collections/technology-computers-desktops-asus/products/technology-computers-desktops-g30ab).

Notice how there's /collections/collection-name in there. Shopify search always generates short-form URLs. Some themes use short-form URLs. Some themes use long-form URLs. Your products are accessible by both.

My app works with both. In fact more than that, it actually tries to help you manage both in whatever way you find most intuitive.

2. Canonical URLs are implicit, never 'generated'
Google says: "A canonical URL is the URL of the best representative page from a group of duplicate pages, according to Google". Because Shopify generates duplicate URLs for each product, you've got a choice. You can either tell Google which is the "best representative page" or not.

3. It's your theme that inserts link rel="canonical" tags.
My app does not generate any link tags. It never ever uses the word 'canonical'. These are generated by your theme. Your issue is with your theme developer. Incidentally, I think your theme developer is right to use rel=canonical link tags. After years of working in this space, I've learned that search engines don't really rank on trivial hints, they rank based on importance signals (such as PageRank based on back-links). The only thing you can achieve with SEO is to avoid confusing them and avoid reducing your rank. Canonical linking is a good example of something that avoids confusing them.

4. My app uses only the links you give it.
The breadcrumbs are generated only using links that you give the app. Everything comes from Shopify Navigation. I don't make anything up. You can optionally choose to use the 'short-link fix' (disabled by default) which allows you to compose product links on collection pages using both the collection name and the product name, but again these link components only come from what you've given the app in Shopify Navigation.

5. My app helps SEO, not hinders it.
As well as generating a visible breadcrumb, my app also (optionally) generates a JSON-LD breadcrumb in HTML. This is structured metadata that tells search engines how the breadcrumb hierarchy is constructed. It has nothing to do with canonical links. It uses only the links that are already used in the breadcrumb, i.e. only links that you have given it in Shopify Navigation.

6. We've discussed this already by email.
I've emailed you about this but recently you've stopped responding, I assume because you're busy as I know storeowners are. I have given significant time to trying to help you with your canonical links, even though they have nothing to do with my app. My line on customer support is that I try to help wherever I can. In spite of all these efforts, you've still left my app an unfair, unjustified and mis-informed 1-star review. I will continue to help in whatever way I'm able, in whatever way you'll let me and whatever way is technically possible within the confines of how the web works, how search engines work and how Shopify works.

About this app

Launched

October 17, 2016

Languages

English

Built by Zoom Buzz

About Zoom Buzz

4.5 average rating

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