I don’t have a lot of followers, so they’re really views of interested people. This for me is a huge satisfaction because it means that my review has helped thousands of people to decide if it was really worth visiting this place or in any case to organize themselves according to the indications.
However, my satisfaction with this achievement is not enough to energize me to continue writing reviews and adding photos on Maps, because some of these have been made private for no apparent good reason, so about a week ago, I submitted the form , I just checked from my husband’s profile but still have not been restored. All this is really depressing, to see that your work done for free and with so much love is destroyed perhaps by a bug. So I’m currently writing my reviews in my cell phone notebook, later I will decide whether to publish them. Do you also have a review that makes you proud of your LG “work”?
Thank you so much @waza28 Yes, I also often read here that many people have the same problem. My reviews made private are from the last few months, the photos I don’t know, it’s too complicated to try to understand what they are. There are no numbers or other violations in my blocked reviews. But very often I see profiles with phone numbers or other personal contacts in plain sight and yet they are active. This makes me so angry
Congrats on getting 33K views on one review. That is way beyond normal.
Keep in mind that Google do reuse our reviews in Google search also. And on other platforms. And the owners of places can chose to display reviews on their websites.
I totally agree with you on this, it’s upsetting that genuine local guides who have reached higher levels are going through this. Yet I have come across many places which have a picture of a lamp post or pictures of them sitting on their car and they have been published. Can just hope this issue gets fixed quickly.
Ciao @MortenCopenhagen sorry, I have a question for you, I have searched but I have not found a similar case here:
from some of my photos I have noticed that the location / name of the place has disappeared. They are photos published a few months ago and are part of a series of photos of that place, but only 10 of them have this problem. Do you think something happened or is it Google’s way of blocking photos? Thank you
It sounds odd, but most likely they have been removed as not relevant to the place. Normally, such photos would just be hidden and not removed from the pin.
You need to share more details if you want me or others look deeper into this.
as you can see the position has been removed, but in the photos Camogli has been captured and the waters from which they were taken are there in front of Camogli. Obviously I see them published if I do a search on maps of Camogli. At present, for the problems described above, it no longer matters much to me, but this question could help other LGs not to make mistake. Sorry, I don’t know if the image looks good but I’m writing from my mobile
I found the images under your contributions, and they for sure belong to nowhere, @PattyBlack .
One thing they have in common is that they are taken from the water. This make the spam filter see that your photos are not exactly from Camogli.
The other photos you uploaded to Camogli are actually also violating the guidelines big time.
You are proabably not aware that uploading photos to areas like cities (here Camogli https://maps.app.goo.gl/xePGMoxgHbTahRu18) can get you in trouble. When you visit the pin there is no add photos button or link. This is how Google Maps hints that we should not attempt to upload photos. The photos shown are selected by an algorithm from photos uploaded to places inside the city.
Let me know if you need some links to documents explaining this.
I also noticed other issues with your photos. You are uploading similar or even duplicate photos, and photos should clearly show the places. A photo with 40 percent sky and 40 percent water in the foreground are not really showing the place clearly. Please move a lot closer and avoid taking photos when the lighting is not favorable. A city in the distance. In the shade and with very low contrast are not very helpful. Also, you may want to reduce the number of photos uploaded to each pin. I aim to select the best 1 or 2 images.
You were really kind @MortenCopenhagen I cannot really understand why errors like these are sanctioned while others far more serious are not. Many duplicate photos are caused by Google itself because it invites me to publish them even if I have already done so (but I didn’t remember doing it or I didn’t remember having published similar ones …). However, the rules must always be respected, so I will clean up the profile as you suggested even if I don’t know if I will use it again, I have no more incentives to continue doing LG. Thank you very much. Have a good afternoon
@PattyBlack ti ricordi che avevo un centinaio di recensione non visibili che non sapevo e tu eri demoralizzata per le tue. Le ho scoperte con l’aiuto di @LuigiZ al nostro incontro a novembre. Ho inviato il modulo, anzi due nel dubbio… con mia grande sorpresa ho visto, 2 giorni fa, che molte di quelle che erano nascoste ore sono pubbliche.
Quindi c’è un lavoro dietro di verifica e questa è la conferma che il sistema opera dei blocchi ingiustificati.
Spero che anche il tuo modulo abbia ottenuto risultati sperati.
Ottimo @DENIT33 , mi fa piacere che le tue siano di nuovo visibili, si quel giorno scoprimmo di avere qualche recensione nascosta un po’ tutti .
Compila il form@PattyBlack ed attendi pazientemente, ci vogliono diverse settimane visto che il team controlla manualmente e non da risposta sull’esito .
Se hai ancora foto duplicate, da quello che leggo nei tuoi precedenti commenti, rimuovile prima di inviare il form altrimenti potrebbe non sbloccarti le recensioni, anche se fatto involontariamente.
Ho un pó mollato la presa @DENIT33 tra la mancanza di tempo e tutti i problemi di maps non sono più molto assidua. Comunque avevo inviato il modulo a settembre e qualcosa si era mosso, ho controllato dal cel di Umberto. Ho parzialmente pulito il profilo da doppioni e foto non in linea con le regole (tra le più recenti) e anche qualche recensione che non visualizzavo dopo vari tentativi ma poi nel tempo la visibilità delle recensioni ha iniziato a fare l’altalena (oggi si vede, tra una settimana sparisce, tra due settimane ricompare poi sparisce di nuovo…) Anche quella oggetto di questo post all’improvviso è sparita e poi mi sono stancata e non ho più controllato. @LuigiZ
Sto continuando a pulire il profilo quando ho tempo, che non è cosa semplice per la mancanza di filtri adeguati alla ricerca! Ma sinceramente rispetto a quello che vedo su altri profili il mio non è messo malissimo. Leggo tantissimo qui nei post dove si parla di come migliorare il profilo e le pubblicazioni e una cosa che proprio non mi entra in testa è di sparare foto a raffica non resisto a voler condividere i dettagli che a me sono sembrati importanti e che cerco quando sto programmando una visita o una vacanza. Ho la capa tosta!
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non resisto a voler condividere i dettagli che a me sono sembrati importanti e che cerco quando sto programmando una visita o una vacanza. Ho la capa tosta! 
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