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Fair enough... This is what I'm looking at in terms of the settings I want to integrate directly into the header, I'll try to keep people posted on the results: https://github.com/themeforce/framework/blob/master/core_seo/tf.schema.admin-options.php

I think we are presently in a "too new to tell" stage. It also seems this is a metric which will be watched very closely by Google and may be adjusted multiple times this year. With that said, intuitively the weighting style would be similar to a link. Would you prefer a link to your home page or to a deeper page? The same logic should apply.

Yoast's plugin for Wordpress is excellent! (and I agree that custom Wordpress theme frameworks should allow SEO modification to be taken over by a dedicated SEO plugin such as Yoast's -  if one is activated) Personally however I think the SEO/SEF banter is a game of semantics - If you think of Search Engine Friendly URLS for example - these can be generated using Yoast's Wordpress SEO tool - so SEF and SEO are pretty much one and the same when it all boils down to it. One of the things that every SEO worth their salt will do is recommend working toward making the project site Search Engine Friendly by promoting proper use of Schema and other SEF elements as part of their SEO strategy.