I lost 9 years
’ worth of posts, and I don’t know why. After having half a million views on my posts, now I only have 25,0
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Please share the link to your Maps profile, and make sure it is not set to restricted under Personal content (scroll all the way down). Then I can take a look and hopefully help you.
Thanks. I see so few contributions that level 6 sounds about right.
Are you sure that you are still using the same Google account? Please make a screenshot of an older status email showing your previous level and a few more data.
@TsekoV kindly take a look at this.
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Thank you. I wasn’t referring to a change in quality, but rather in viewership. It was over a million and now it’s 29,000. Unfortunately, I have an email address, but it’s in Arabic. As for my account, I only have one Google account. My previous posts appear on it, but they’re frozen; I don’t know why, as shown in the previous screenshots.
Hi @Awattar If your reviews are removed from business pages, your review views will decrease.
Even top-tier Local Guides can sometimes get flagged by Google’s spam detection system. There are too many similar photos in your comments that would be considered spam.
Even if your comments are removed from publication, your score should not decrease. This is how Google’s system works. You will also receive points even if the comment you add is not published.
Platinum product expert wrote in this thread that some comments that do not comply with Google’s rules will not be restored.
The user who started the topic stated that Google is actively removing reviews globally due to non-compliance with its guidelines. This title is for the year 2025. Maybe it’ll be useful.
Good job reaching level 6! Keep it up, and regarding your lost contributions, this is something what is happening to any Local Guide worldwide randomly 
. Sometimes it’s just a temporary glitch or mistake, but let’s see what our excellent moderators will determine 
.
Thank you for your comment. That would be true if one or ten posts were removed, but in my case, nine years of posting, over 200 photos, and numerous comments were deleted.
Does this make sense too?
I just noticed that you uploaded several very same pictures of same thing, for example Google Maps and Google Maps 
.
You only took a picture from a slightly different angle. This is not good practise, nor a contribution in general 
.
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Your old screenshot says 664 contributions and 1.019 million views.
Here are your current numbers of contributions
I think the numbers add up considering you have made contributions in the past few days.
Regarding views, your current photo+video views stands at 16,866 and your reviews have currently no views.
As others mentioned, we normally get to keep views even after photos get hidden or removed completely. So I honestly don’t know why you dropped almost all of your views.
Maybe @ErmesT knows something.
Others have mentiond some issues with your contributions. I agree that you uploaded duplicates to this place. Most of your photos uploaded to Amazon shows the sky and not really the place. Some of your photos uploaded here and here are too similar. And the public reviews I read are overly positive and sound like marketing texts or something written by AI. But none of these issues can explain your loss of view.
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Thanks for the tag, @MortenCopenhagen
Well, the first thing is that the screenshot is referring to “total views” of the contributions, so not just views of photos
But it also mentions 64 image interactions, while actually you only have 1, @Awattar
The only thing that comes to my mind to explain that (apart of a glitch) is that the media were attached to the reviews, and the reviewed locations were removed from Google Maps.
In that case reviews and media will disappear, and in that case also the count of the views will drop.
What @MuratYILMAZ said about keeping points and views even if the contributions are hidden is true (even if different from what the policies say) but if the place is removed then the review will simply vanish, with all the related data
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Thank you very much, but the question that’s still on my mind is: Will the photos, reviews, and ratings for all the places I’ve written about over the past nine years be deleted all at once?
Important note: Previous reviews and posts are not hidden from me, but they are all pending at once.
There is an inconsistency here. It is unlikely that businesses with reviews left by local guides will be deleted at the same time.
As far as I understand, local guides who commented here stated that many of their comments were removed from the system after a while. It is also possible to see this on Google Support.
If the review is completely removed and deleted from the local guide’s profile, of course the number of views and scores will decrease, but if the local guide didn’t do this, what could have caused this?
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I believe you will have to read my reply again, @MuratYILMAZ
I was asked to elaborate a possible hypothesis, and what I said was
Apart of a glitch, @MuratYILMAZ .
And @MortenCopenhagen already tagged a Googler for a check and eventually to escalate the issue to the team, so there was no need on my side to repeat what others already said
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Thank you for the tag, @MortenCopenhagen. I’ve raised this internally, @Awattar.
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