Hi, I’ve been uploading photos to google maps for a few months now and for some reason they remain with 0 views. Could it be that I was blocked? Does anyone know what can be done to release it?
Hello @David_shachar
This seems to be your first post on connect,therefore welcome to local guides connect forum. Here is a **Welcome-to-Connect-Card **for a quick orientation.
That said, I believe you know What kind of photos to share on Google maps. There is a strict regulation regarding contributions and sharing photos on Google maps. It’s always worth it to go through
Maps user contributed content policy,
If you haven’t done so since you became a local guide.
Observation
I had a quick look on your photos and they are quite beautiful and clear. I also saw some of them with 7k views and more,so I wonder which of them you are talking about when you say zero views. Nevertheless;
- There are lots of duplicate photos as seen in the collage above. Please consider sanitising(Delete) them. Otherwise you could be a potential candidate for suspension or total ban. For example photo of the strawberry uploaded twice. Jumbo Greece,Aroma restaurant etc.
- Photos shouldn’t be added to cities or counties or countries. For example your photo of Budapest,Istanbul etc. It’s against the rules.
- Some of your photos don’t show anything in particular of the POI.Photos on Google maps should show particular feature to help maps users see what the place looks like.
Finally duplicate photos,blurry photos photos that isn’t useful or don’t show any feature products or service area are surely the ones that the AI marks as private. General map users can’t view them. Therefore no views at all or the views don’t increase.
You could appeal for the genuine ones to be released and you could delete/sanitise the ones that are against the rules.
Please use this form to appeal only if you believe that your contributions have been wrongfully unpublished. Please note that it takes a good while for your profile to be investigated. Only what the team regards as genuine will be released.
Please kindly look up this post **Count-your-hidden-contributions-Mobile. **for more information on your photos. Hope this helps.
Happy guiding
Cheers