Local Guide Tips

Google Maps tips & tricks
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  • Start with what you know and love – share your favorite spots!
  • Be accurate and honest in your reviews – help others make informed decisions!"
  • Explore new places and try new things – you never know what hidden gems you’ll discover!
  • Engage with the community – respond to comments and help others with their questions!
  • Keep your photos and reviews up-to-date – share your latest adventures!

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Hi @RishamaSolomon ,

Thank you for sharing your tips with us!

I would like to inform you that I redacted the photo you shared, since it contains your email address which is your personal information.

Here on Connect, we value everyone’s privacy and we discourage Local Guides from sharing personal information about themselves or someone else. You can leverage our private messaging system if you wish to exchange personal details with someone.

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Hi @RishamaSolomon , thank you for your tips. Please let me add another one, probably the most important: be helpful.

If our contributions are not helpful all the other tips are useless. Just for you to better understand what I mean, let say that I want to visit a place, I search in Google Maps and I found your posts in the place, where I can see:

  • 13 selfies or group photos
  • 3 very similar photo of the entrance
  • a photo posted twice where you see one person picking something from a car in front of the place
  • 2 similar photos of the counter half hidden by a shelf
  • 1 blurry photo of the counter
  • 1 video of your friends toasting
  • 2 videos of the external part of the place
  • 3 similar photos of a person seen from behind next to the counter

and finally

  • 1 blurry photo of a dish

The same is for all the places where you contributed in Maps.

Would you consider this helpful? Let say that, if I want to visit a place I would like to see how the place is, how the food is.

Please don’t confuse Google Maps, where we show “what a place is like”, with a social media like Instagram where we say “hey, I’ve been there”.

This is a big NO

Also, I am not sure to understand what you mean with “Engage with the community – respond to comments and help others with their questions!”. Can you explain?

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You have a great point.

Helpfulness should be the priority.

Thank you for bringing that out.

What I mean when I say "Engage with the community, respond to comments, and help others with their questions!

Simply, the Local Guide Connect is a community that encourages engagement, be an active contributors, also a lot of people ask questions about the place reviewed a it is good to clarify them based on your experiences, as that will help them make informed choices.

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Kindly noted

Thank You @AngieYC