I’ve been working on improving my online presence, and one of the key things I want to focus on is increasing the number of Google Pins for my collection
Google Pins, also known as Google Maps Pins, are essential for local businesses like mine to be easily discoverable online. They help potential customers find your location, contact information, and other crucial details.
please share your insights. Whether it’s optimizing my Google My Business listing, encouraging customer reviews, or any other strategies, I’m all ears!
Your advice would be greatly appreciated. Thanks in advance for your help! #GooglePins#LocalSEO#BusinessTips
Here is not the right forum to ask such questions. We as Local Guides do not focus on business activities on the map. We’re all volunteers to have a better map. The best place to search and ask such questions is the GBP forum.
But since this post may be visible to many others, I prepare some tips. My general suggestion is to be real! Just put correct data on the map to help people reach their destinations in the real world and not to boost your business! You know Google AI really pays attention to real data.
Avoid from adding fake points, duplicate points, keywords in name, wrong working hours and any other wrong data.
Indeed it is good to forget SEO on the map. This helps to keep real data and prevent wrong activities like adding keywords, wrong addressing, and more.
Fortunately, Google Business Profile is available there and you can use its vast tools to boost your business. Setting a correct pin on a map at a real location is the only thing you could do in GBP. It has also some tools in cooperation with Google Ads to promote your business on Maps in the correct way.
On the other hand, the most important factor is your website. Try to reach it and keep it up to date. Use accurate schema tags and other ways that Google AI index your services better and better.
So, just keep real and simple data on the map, prepare good services to customers in the real world, and make your business website useful and updated. Also, note that you should not expect a sudden success. It is a crawling process and needs few months.
I don’t get the point about “how I can get more pins”.
If you have any real business with a real office, then you can add one pin for it on the map. One physical address of a business couldn’t have more than one pin on the map.
If your business has different branches in different addresses, then you could add them separately but with the same name for all without mentioning to branch.
These are all related to GBP as I told you before.
But if you want to increase the “Added places” in your Local Guides contribution list, then you can go to the street and compare the map with the real world to see which places aren’t on the map even by search. Then you could add them with a suitable name and contact info. After several days from approval, the counter of Added Places in your contribution list will increase.
By the way, please use @ to mention so I receive an email about your comment.
When you say "pins " with respective emoji, we think you’re talking about pins on Google Maps!
You’re referring to the Google Maps pin or Pegman badges that Google sends to Local Guides as rewards.
These aren’t something with an organized process to send to users. These are only promotional materials from Google that are sent randomly to Local Guides. Most Local Guides didn’t receive a reward at all.
The only suggestion to have a chance to receive such rewards is to continue your good contributions and follow the guidelines. Google will notify you if they want to send you one. But note that there is no guarantee to get one. Even I have not one of these badges yet. But that is not my goal as a Local Guide, so, no matter
In there you can read: “Rewards are offered to Local Guides from time to time as a thank you for contributing great content on Google Maps.”
The focus is on the “great content”, and honestly there are so many violations in your visible photo contributions (20% of your photo are hidden already) that I seriously doubt you will get a pin, as you looks like to be closer to a ban than to a reward. Blurred, duplicates, redundant, same photo posted in differente places and photos taken from the web are all serious violations of the Local Guides Rules.
Also I haven’t checked yet with an AI detector, but several of your recent reviews seems to be Artificially generated, and are following a well known structure.
I think a quick and deep clean’up of your contributions may help you, if not to receive a reward, at least to remain a Local Guide.
If you need help to identify the content that are violating the rules please let us know
I wrote my reply directly to you after checking your contributions. I am not used to copy/paste my replies, but if you think so and you are not able to understand what I am saying I am really worried about how you contribute, and about what you know about the rules that I have shared with you on my previous reply.
We do not contribute to get rewards, we contribute to help others, and we have rules to avoid redundant, duplicates photos and contents taken from the web.
If you don’t understand this I can only say “good luck”
Google only offers these two physical pins to Local Guides. There is also no way to reach more pins or even receive these pins again. Local Guides are selected randomly to get these pins.
But the most important thing is what @ErmesT mentioned: “We do not contribute to get rewards, we contribute to help others”
This is the spirit of being a Local Guide. If we think so and act by following the rules, then we have no worry about not receiving perks or other rewards.
#GooglePins #LocalSEO #BusinessTips
I got it.
