I recently discovered that not all of my reviews are showing to the public.
I’m not sure if this is the right channel to address this issue, but as a frequent user of Google Maps, I have greatly benefited from people’s reviews. Consequently, I decided to contribute to the community myself. I travel extensively and visit many places, and I make an effort to write both detailed and quick reviews. While I strive to be genuine in my feedback, I admit that I may not always do the greatest job.
Furthermore, when I have the time, I use my laptop to update the names of certain restaurants in Arabic. This is because some of my friends have complained about the lack of Arabic language support and they wish for all Google Maps to be available in Arabic. Additionally, I contribute by sharing photos and videos whenever possible.
However, it is disheartening to learn that not all of my reviews are accessible to people. I would greatly appreciate your guidance and support in resolving this matter.
From your message it sounds like you are doing a great job helping Maps users and business owners.
Let me take a look at your profile.
I can confirm from your public profile that you have added 1266 reviews and only 222 of them are public.
Google has automatic filters that hide your reviews so only you can see them. This can happen when some of your reviews violate the review guidelines.
Read about typical review guideline violations here. And please see my latest post called 4 Tips on writing better reviews. And this post by ErmesT explains in more details why Google is hiding reviews.
If you want to identify which of your reviews are hidden check this post.
Please use the form called Account Investigation for contributions not visible on Google Maps if you believe that some of your contributions have been wrongfully unpublished. Keep in mind, it takes several weeks for the check to be done, and you will not be notified about the result, so I suggest you check the status of your reviews once a week or so.
I looked at some of your public reviews, and I encourage you to start improving your reviews before submitting the form.
You write to short and general reviews.
Please use the link above to my post on 4 tips to write helpful reviews. If you follow the those 4 questions you will know how to fix your problem. But it will take a lot of time to fix. You may chose to delete a bunch of them.
I tried to improve my new reviews and post picture and share useful information about places i visit. Also deleted and updated some old post. Yet many of my reviews are not published. Its a bit frustrating and discouraging. I noticed that my appetite for writing more reviews started to decrease and i really love google map and i want to give community back by contributing useful stuff. Im level 9 and its sad to find out my reviews are not published. Thank you very mucy for support and help.