Google Adds JSON-LD Breadcrumbs Support

Aug 12, 2016 - 7:10 am 1 by

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John Mueller of Google confirmed this morning on Twitter that Google now supports JSON-LD format/schema for breadcrumbs.

Currently, the documentation for breadcrumb schema makes no mention of JSON-LD, but John Mueller said that will change.

In addition, it seems like the Google Structured Data Testing Tool also doesn't recognize JSON-LD breadcrumbs.

But John Mueller said Google does indeed support it.

Here are the set of tweets:

Here is a screen shot of the document saying Google doesn't support JSON-LD for breadcrumbs:

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Forum discussion at Twitter.

 

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