Breadcrumb issue

[MickEdwards]

The site has 2 main categories for scooters.  One category is Type of Scooter menu item with nested types and the second category is Manufacturer menu item with nest makes.  So all the scooters can be found in either of these categories depending on how you search.

The Manufacturer category is mainly thin content and set as noindex, as well as the nested makes categories.

However when searching for products Google is invariably using the breadcrumb for the Manufacturer category rather than the Type of Scooter category, which is indexed.

Should this be of concern Google using breadcrumbs of non indexed URLs, even if they are followed and therefore the site navigable?

[evolvingSEO]

Hi Michael

I don't think this is a concern in terms of a penalty or anything severe. But I would say, if you'd prefer the other breadcrumbs to show up, perhaps try some breadcrumb structured data (unless you have already?) - to get the preferred ones to show up.

https://developers.google.com/structured-data/breadcrumbs