Here is a recap of what happened in the search forums today, through the eyes of the Search Engine Roundtable and other search forums on the web…

Google’s John Mueller said that sites based in the United States do not get crawling priority from Google. It doesn’t matter where the site is located in terms of what priority Google will crawl the site. He said on Twitter “we don’t prioritize crawling of sites in the US.”

Google’s John Mueller said in a Google webmaster hangout video at the 34:30 mark that he believes implementing schema markup for rich results won’t be getting any easier. In fact, he said over the next few years he feels it will continue to get harder and more complicated.

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The majority of participants also agreed that rich results improve Google search. Please visit Search Engine Land for the full article.

This was a pretty busy week, we may have had a Google search algorithm update this week and maybe, just maybe, Forbes got hit hard by it. Google is probably going to revert the favicon and black ad label user interface, lots of tests are going on now…

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