Local Guides Tips

Google Maps tips & tricks
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Share any kind of tips you have under your sleeve and help others in achieving & contribute more to our society~

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Hi @MuhdFaizNor ,

Welcome to Connect.

I can’t agree more with you and there are lots of ways to contribute that will help your community.

The best ways to contribute and get points are:

  • Add new places
  • Add meaningful quality photos to places
  • Edit places to update them to correct information.
  • Review and rate places you’ve experienced and tell us about them
  • Add photos to places you visit, most places deserve two to three photos, one of the outside of the place, one of the inside and perhaps a product shot. Some places may deserve more such as large stores, tourist attractions or cultural landmarks.

While contributing is a lot of fun and rewarding, I always caution people about growing in points too quickly. Organic growth a little at a time is always best. Those who shoot up like rockets sometimes are making low quality contributions and may have contributions removed with a subsequent loss of points.

For everything you contribute, always think to yourself, would I find what I’m about to add useful? If the answer is yes then go ahead and do it, otherwise think about holding back.

Never review places you have not personally visited or used.

Good luck in your journey as a Local Guide.

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“Those who shoot up like rockets sometimes are making low quality contributions and may have contributions removed with a subsequent loss of points” for real tho??

I honestly never thought of that.

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Hey @MuhdFaizNor ,

Now you know =)… I’m glad to help.

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Thank you so much. Also I’ve a question. Why is it that sometimes my edits or when I try to add a new place it doesn’t accept it?

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Hello @MuhdFaizNor ,

First I would like to inform you that you can tag people by putting @ in front of their nicknames so they can receive notifications that someone is mentioning them in a post.

About your questions, I just want to let you know that every edit submitted to Google Maps is either reviewed by an automated systems, local operators, or both, to ensure changes follow our guidelines.

Please check this post Why is my edit status Pending or Not Applied? for further information.

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I am totally agree with you. As people believe on our review its very important to share fair details.

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Hi @vikramsinh29 ,

Welcome to Connect.

I’m glad that you do =). As you seem to be new here on Connect, I wanted to let you know that you can tag Connect members in your posts by writing @ before their name. This way they receive a notification and know that you are trying to communicate with them directly.