Google’s John Mueller said in a Google Hangout this morning at the 55 minute mark saying that Google will be stepping up their efforts around structured markup throughout the year because it benefits them in how they understand a web page.

He said, “so I suspect over the course of the year we will definitely be seeing more structured data because it really helps us a lot to understand and discover.”

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