Hi, I’m keen to get the ‘Novice Trailblazer’ Google Maps contributions badge but my points don’t seem to be applying for the requirement ‘Write the first review of 10 places’ - I’ve written the first review for quite a few places but it’s only showing 1/10. Is there a way to amend that?
Thanks!
Hi @rhilander
Welcome to Connect and congrats on your first post.
I believe the root of the problem you see is that quite a lot of your reviews are hidden. Fixing this will also solve the issues with badges.
I can confirm from your public profile that you have added 83 reviews and only 37 of them are public.
Google has automatic filters that hide your reviews so only you can see them. This can happen when some of your reviews violate the review guidelines.
Read about typical review guideline violations here. And please see my latest post called 4 Tips on writing better reviews.
If you are on a Desktop use this link to Count your hidden contributions. From a mobile device use this link.
If you want to identify which of your reviews are hidden check this post.
Please use the form called Account Investigation for contributions not visible on Google Maps if you believe that some of your contributions have been wrongfully unpublished. Keep in mind, it takes several weeks for the check to be done, and you will not be notified about the result, so I suggest you check the status of your reviews once a week or so.
Best of luck
Morten
Hi Morten, thanks for your reply. Wow I had no idea any of my reviews were hidden, I’ll go through your links and see if I can fix my reviews. Thanks!
Hello @rhilander
I see Morten already replied to your post. Hopefully you’ll get it fixed up and your badges all in place too
Please would you mind editing your post to change the label? Its supposed to be on the “How tos” board rather than achievements. To edit it please click on the 3 dots at the end of the page. Thanks
Happy guiding
Cheers
No probs - fixed. Sorry about that.