Google not showing Post Permalinks but showing Categories in place of it!

Hey, I am using Yoast SEO for my website: http://www.nerdope.com

All was going well but since last week Google not indexing Post Permalinks but showing up Categories urls ( in the form of breadcrumbs) in Post Snippets.

Here you can see in the image below; the post permalink is all set up in both default place and Yoast snippet preview editor:

But Google is showing things like this:

Note the Featured Category taking place of Post Permalink.

Please tell me how to resolve the issue? I am using Yoast with Default Settings.

That is how Google works, and has the past decade. If you have breadcrumbs they will show
website URL > breadcrumb > breadcrumb

they don’t show the permalink or the story title when breadcrumbs are in place.

The reasoning is that it makes it faster for somebody to navigate in SERPS

eg.,

The Story Title
www.site.ooo > books > science fiction '

so, on news/content sites, it would allow somebody to go to the two main “topics” the story is under, vs the direct link from the story title.

That is how Google has used breadcrumbs since they added them to SERPS (our main news site has been online 16 years, and Google has always done this since being able to “read” the breadcrumbs).

So, it’s a navigation aid. Also, typically the down arrow will note the story has been cached in case site is down temporarily or unreachable.

To only show the permalink, you can turn OFF the post breadcrumbs.

So it’s not an “issue” — it’s a “feature.” 🙂

• This reply was modified 10 years by simchris.

I have a related question:

I set up the permalink manually on a post as this:
http://www.patchofearth.com/food/pasta/authentic-italian-lasagna-recipe-ground-turkey-ragu-bechamel-sauce

I assigned it multiple categories because I want it to show up on all of those category pages. The highest level category is Food.

This is the permalink that shows up when you click on the post:

http://www.patchofearth.com/food/authentic-italian-lasagna-recipe-ground-turkey-ragu-bechamel-sauce/

Why isn’t is showing the URL I specified manually? Is the problem that the manual permalink gets overriden if there’s a higher level category checked?