I want to know how I can increase my YouTube visibility by creating Local Guide content.
While I’d like to create both YouTube and local guide content there’s just so many hours in a lifetime and I’d like to maximize both my own and Google’s value.
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Hello @fleetwoodPC
I believe by the word local guide rating you mean the levels and badges.
In my opinion, the levels and badges don’t differentiate one from other LGs except for revealing the depth and breadth of the contributions.
Viewers read the reviews and see the photos without bothering much about the level of the contributor.
Nevertheless, adding some quality content on both platforms would be a better strategy to attract more viewers.
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Thank you but if there is no relationship between the two then there doesn’t seem to be a strategy to implement.
I would hope anyone and everyone would prefer to invest their time with the most predictable results possible.
That depends upon one’s intention while joining the LG program.
Nevertheless, looking for some kind of reward or recognition can’t be the one. At most these can become some fringe benefits but not the main expectations.
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This is an interesting point of view, @fleetwoodPC , BTW I agree with @C_T .
The value of the contents you submit on Google maps is not related to the Level, but, I have personally seen amazing contents by low level local guides too, and very bad contents added by high level who thinks that points are more important than the content.
Adding good content will give you the possibility to have people following you. A good review every week is much better than five bad reviews every day
I don’t know what “reward or recognition” you mean.
I’ve asked if increasing ones ranking (value) with videos, for example, would result in those videos being recommended on YouTube more than other similar videos by someone with a lower rank … otherwise what’s the value of ranking in regard to the videos?
Yes, exactly Earnest. I’m actually suggesting YouTube likes and subscribes and tied in to the ranking so that the system isn’t gamed by exactly the scenario you describe.
In other words, don’t give grades on the number of words in the book report. Let YouTube, as one example of a source, help determine ranking … the YouTube equivalent of PageRank.
This curiosity just came to me today. So far I’ve made random posts, never videos, but as I start to make videos naturally wonder how they might be related.
Wouldn’t people prefer to see video reviews of diners that have many likes?