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Breadcrumb schema generator

The trail of pages from the home page down to the current one.

Rich result availableBreadcrumbList · Breadcrumb

Fields marked with an asterisk are required. Your input stays in this browser.

Required

Without these, Google won't use the markup.
Trail (required)

Top level first. The last step is the current page and may leave its URL empty.

  1. step 1

Guide

What Google does with BreadcrumbList markup

Google can show the trail in place of the URL on desktop results. Since January 2025 mobile results show only the domain. Mirror the breadcrumb that people see on the page.

Google's breadcrumb documentation

Fields Google looks for

PropertyStatusIn the form
itemListElementRequiredTrail

Example output

This is what the builder produces from the example data. Paste it into the page's HTML, in the <head> or the body.

{
  "@context": "https://schema.org",
  "@type": "BreadcrumbList",
  "itemListElement": [
    {
      "@type": "ListItem",
      "position": 1,
      "name": "Books",
      "item": "https://example.com/books/"
    },
    {
      "@type": "ListItem",
      "position": 2,
      "name": "Science fiction",
      "item": "https://example.com/books/sciencefiction/"
    },
    {
      "@type": "ListItem",
      "position": 3,
      "name": "Award winners"
    }
  ]
}