Google has given a greater emphasis to acquiring user reviews which could have a bearing not only on your search engine visibility, but also on your Google+ Local listing as both good and bad reviews stand to influence visitors.

From the Google Knowledge graph to Google Local and Google Plus integration, find out more about Google’s latest changes. If you don’t have time to read this post, we’ve embedded a Slideshare presentation to enable quick and easy viewing.

Search engine giant Google recently stepped up its efforts to win a bigger portion of the social media pie by introducing Google+ Local. Essentially, Google+ Local is the result of blending two of its existing products, Google Places (their local business directory) and Google+ (their increasingly popular social media platform which has grown to over [...]