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Kind Of Weird Breadcrumb / URL Listed In Google Results

         

Planet13

7:49 am on Dec 5, 2014 (gmt 0)

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Probably NOT big deal, but...

I did a site:example.com search for my own site and I noticed a strange breadcrumb and a strange URL listed in the search results for my site.

Most of my breadcrumbs are displayed on the search results pages like this:

example.com > widgets > blue widgets


This one page had the breadcrumbs listed like this:

example.com > ... > blue widgets


Also, when I hover the mouse over the link in the search results to that page, the link DIRECTLY to that page appears in the bottom of the browser (the place where you can preview the destination URL when you hover over the link).

So for other URLs to my site on the SERPs, it will show:

example.com/widgets/blue_widgets.html


But for the page that had the messed up breadcrumbs, when I hover over the link in the SERPs, the URL that is displayed is

http://www.google.com/url?sa=t&rct=j&q=&esrc=s&source=web&cd=26&cad=rja&uact=8&ved=0CNQBEBYwGQ&url=http [rest of url here]


Anyway, just wondered if it might mean something. I still get traffic to that page, and I get a 200 / ok response with google's fetch as googlebot, so don't really know what is up with it.

Planet13

2:42 pm on Dec 5, 2014 (gmt 0)

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Forgot to mention that the cache date for that page is Dec 3rd, if that matters at all.

aakk9999

2:53 pm on Dec 5, 2014 (gmt 0)

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I have seen it before. It happens when there is a longer breadcrumb trail, the middle part of trail is then replaced by ...

Planet13

3:07 pm on Dec 5, 2014 (gmt 0)

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Thanks, aakk9999

Just seems kind of strange because there are OTHER products in that category and the breadcrumb is written out in its entirety. But not for this one product.

(For a few other products in this category google lists the URL instead of the breadcrumb trail.)

johnhh

3:11 pm on Dec 5, 2014 (gmt 0)

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We get something similar for our site, noticed it only recently.

For example

example.com > widgets > blue widgets

When the page is
example.com > widgets > blue widgets > blue widget 20size

The blue link is correct :), as is the cache via the drop down.

No idea why our breadcrumbs are not that long !