Breadcrumb position SEO impact

[lgrozeva]

Hi all,

Our UX designers are working on a new page design, and the breadcrumb position looks somewhat strange - it's almost in the middle of the page.

The new page looks like this (the breadcrumb is below the head banner), but it's a showcase page that contains about 150 items. Each of them has a small thumbnail, title, category and short description. They've decided to use the head banner's place and have there all items, grouped in categories that visitors can browse. The breadcrumb menu is at 900 pixels from the top of the page

In other words, you have the major part of this page content in front of the breadcrumb menu.

Are there any SEO implications in such case? Should we use breadcrumbs on this page if they're not at the top?

Thanks,
Maggie

[Aran_Smithson]

The purpose of the crumb trail to let users know where they are and provide an easy method to Navigate back along the path they have taken.

In which case, as a user there is a particular place I expect to see the crumb trail, usually at the top of a content block directly under the page header.

If its not user friendly I wouldn't expect it to be beneficial to SEO either.

Loving the design though