Avoid breadcrumbs to reduce keyword density/stuffing?

[smithaa02]

While google officially recognizes breadcrumbs...should they be avoided if they have your main keywords in them?

Obviously google has been cracking down on stuffed pages...so wouldn't a breadcrumb hurt rather than help? Especially if your 'detail' pages don't have a lot of unique content? (sometimes unavoidable)

[tedster]

I think breadcrumbs are important usability feature - and using decent keywords can be important for the visitor, too. If the page has a lot of content, I'd just lower the keyword count in that content, going to more pronouns and synonyms.

[Atomic]

I agree with Tedster. No way would I remove breadcrumbs for a reason like that. I did however experiment with going from absolute to relative links. That alone improved my density a percentage point on some pages.

[Wlauzon]

If you want to give up usability for your customers/users, it might have some tiny effect. I think it is a pretty silly idea actually. I never heard of any of the search engines applying any penalty for breadcrumbs.

[deadsea]

I'd be worried about keyword stuffing if my breadcrumbs were:

Widgets > Green Widgets > Shiny Green Widgets

I'd pair it back to

Widgets > Green > Shiny

or

Home > Green Widgets > Shiny

or

Home > Green > Shiny