Include the homepage or not in breadcrumbs?

Include the homepage or not in breadcrumbs? - Google Search Console is a free application that allows you to identify, troubleshoot, and resolve any issues that Google may encounter as it crawls and attempts to index your website in search results. If you’re not the most technical person in the world, some of the errors you’re likely to encounter there may leave you scratching your head. We wanted to make it a bit easier, so we put together this handy set of tips about google-search, schema.org, rich-snippets, homepage to guide you along the way. Read the discuss below, we share some tips to fix the issue about Include the homepage or not in breadcrumbs?.Problem :

According to the Google guidelines for breadcrumbs using Schema.org markup the first breadcrumbs trail should NOT be the homepage.

I tried using this markup and using the first trail as the homepage and the results were showing a webpage in SERP like this:

www.example.com > Home > Category > Page

"Home" was actually linked as the first trail.

But I see thousands of other websites using "Home" as the first trail in their breadcrumbs. Am I doing something wrong?

Solution :

Didn't the first paragraph of your question answer it?

Are you going to follow the herd who have likely never heard about google's guidelines or are you going to follow the guidelines of the organisation you are hoping will list your site in a way they think is most effective?

If the issue about google-search, schema.org, rich-snippets, homepage is resolved, there’s a good chance that your content will get indexed and you’ll start to show up in Google search results. This means a greater chance to drive organic search traffic to your site.