Hello Local Guides,
I am new on Local Guides Connect. I want tips for how to increase views and like on my posted photos and reviews on Google maps?
Help me.
#letsguide! Me
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Hello @Patel121 ,
Welcome to Connect!
It’s great that you want to ask for tips and learn more about sharing on Google Maps however, Idea Exchange is not the optimal place to do so.
Idea Exchange is the section of Connect where Local Guides share their ideas toward making Google Maps and the Local Guides program even better. You can read more about it in How do I use the Idea Exchange?
Your post fits better in the How-tos section where other Local Guides can share their knowledge. I’m letting you know that I have moved it there as well.
For more information about the different topics here on Connect, please have a look at What are Connect topics?
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Interesting question, @Patel121
The best way to have a lot of view in your photo is to have your photo featured on the business, or at least on the top 10.
The top photos are chosen by the AI, based on a series of elements. We can mention here a few:
- Quality of the photo. An High quality photo may have a priority to a low quality. Good colors, good saturation, high resolution can help
- Relevance of the photo. There are photo with an higher relevance, like the storefront, or great photo of food posted on the food section of the business listing. Avoiding photos that are not relevant to the business, or duplicate photos, should be avoided (your Local Guides socks are not related to the business). Posting irrelevant photos is useless, and can end on the removal from the Local guide program. A great article about photos is: What photos should I share on Google Maps?
Reviews. you may have seen that Google Maps display at the beginning the “most relevant” reviews. Of course in this way the reviews are more visible. Tips for writing great reviews will help you in this
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Hi @Patel121
Getting more likes on your reviews is actually pretty difficult in my experience. Google Maps users don’t tend to hit the like button very often. Maybe we all should be more liberal and spread more love in the form of likes on reviews.
Taking, processing and posting better pictures is what you can do to increase the view count on your photos. Actually I’m currently working on a new tutorial on exactly that topic. Until that is ready, I would recommend you take a look at these three amazing posts from very experienced local guides with respect to photography:
500.000.000 views : status and tricks by @Briggs
What I have learned by posting 10600+ photos by @Svein
Shopping Mall Photo Walk by @TorM
Cheers
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How do I get 1, 000, 000 views on my photos???
Hi @sethbdw232 ,
Welcome to Connect.
Thank you for reaching out. You can have a look at this comment, where you can find the answer to your question.
When you have a question, you can start a new post, or search if there is something similar to what you are asking already on Connect. Since your comment is not related to the board you wrote on, I merged it with this post, where the question is the same.
As you are new on Connect, why don’t you explore the many topic labels and check out the conversations happening among other Local Guides? You can tell us a bit more about yourself in our monthly topic, Introduce Yourself - May 2020.
To get familiar with the topics on the forum and find various ways to engage with the community, you can check out: Your guide to Connect.
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