New Google Plus Local Has Replaced Google Places

Online, August 14, 2012 (Newswire.com) - Google biggest change introduced New Google Plus Local replaced Google Places. New updates of review "zagat", compulsory to customers to join Google plus social network for posting review and most important if you want to access Google plus local need to be a member of Google plus. Also compulsory to provide correct name, address, place.

After acquisition of Zagat, Google uses their 5 star review system for Google+ Local. This new review system gives the reviewer a choice of rating from 0 to 3, with zero being the worst. These ratings are then translated into a factor of 10. Score from 25-30 indicates that you are the best and a score from 0-5 indicates that you are the worst.

Google has also made it harder for your customers to leave reviews. Now the customers need to join Google+ social network in order to leave a review. This will result in less people leaving their reviews. Also in order to have an access to the Google+ Local, you need to become a member of Google Plus.

Google+ Local Categories
• Physical Address
• Proper Category Associations
• Proximity of Address
• Domain Authority
• Quantity of Structured Citations
• City and State
• Quantity of Native Google Places Reviews
• Quality/Authority of Structured Citations
• Local Area Code
• HTML name, address, phone (NAP)

Things to remember
• Provide your address in the city to be searched
• Associate your business with proper categories
• Have an address which is close to the centroid
• Ensure your data is accurate and complete across the local ecosystem especially on authoritative citation sources
• Get yourself reviewed by the customers at Google+ Local