Breadcrumbs
Configure breadcrumb navigation in Volume: understand how products link to collections, how Shopify assigns canonical URLs, and avoid duplicate content issues.
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Configure breadcrumb navigation in Volume: understand how products link to collections, how Shopify assigns canonical URLs, and avoid duplicate content issues.
The theme includes a breadcrumb feature designed to improve navigation by showing visitors their current location. When enabled, breadcrumbs follow a structure like Home / Collection (Tops) / Product (T-shirt), helping users backtrack easily and explore related products.
To create this structure, the theme links to products via their associated collections, which results in multiple URLs pointing to the same product. For example:
storename.com/collections/tshirts/products/logo-tee
storename.com/collections/sale/products/logo-tee
At the same time, Shopify assigns a single canonical product URL:
storename.com/products/logo-tee
While Shopify automatically handles canonical tags to prioritize the main product URL in search engines, some SEO professionals suggest minimizing alternate URLs to avoid splitting SEO value.
It's up to you to decide whether enhanced navigation is worth the potential SEO trade-off. In most cases, we recommend keeping breadcrumbs enabled, as they significantly improve usability and help customers navigate your store more efficiently.
You can manage how breadcrumbs appear on your store through Theme settings → Breadcrumbs. This feature can be added to supported pages either as a section or as a block, depending on the layout.
You can customize the structure by enabling one or both of the following options:
Includes a link to the collections list immediately after 'Home':
Home / Collections (Collections list) / Collection (Tops) / Product (T-shirt)This helps highlight the broader structure of your store and gives users a quick way to return to the full list of collections.
If you're using the Smart Category Menu feature, this option displays the top-level category as part of the breadcrumb path:
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Home / Clothing (Top-level category) / Collection (Tops) / Product (T-shirt)