I’ve been a Local Guide for a while and have really enjoyed contributing to Google Maps. However, for at least the past 3 months, I’ve noticed that my photos and reviews are not getting any views or engagement. Even my new contributions are not getting views, which makes me think my account might be limited or shadowbanned.
I always try to follow the community guidelines and upload original content. I’m not sure if I’ve done something wrong, What should I do?
Here is a link for my account: https://maps.app.goo.gl/JoTPgPNwmBQv5fPJ9?g_st=ac
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Hello @liamlebron, welcome to the Local Guides Connect community!
I don’t think, you account is banned, because the most recent reviews were entered or updated 11 hours ago. However, while only one of your 30 reviews is hidden to the public, 26 of your 31 photos were rejected (i.e. only five are public):
First, we need to understand, not only the text of a review, but also each photo or video is checked by a SPAM filter. If any of those media are attached to a review and only one photo or video is rejected , the entire review including all other attached media is hidden to the public.
Obviously, if a photo or review is hidden to the public, they cannot be viewed by anybody except yourself. But not only that, a high number of hidden photos can also trigger the filter to be even more rigid and hide even more of your posts in the future. Experiences showed that less than 5% hidden might be acceptable, but in your case it is more than 70%.
So, as a first step, you should try to identify the hidden photos, by sharing the link to someone else or an anonymous browser session and why they might be rejected.
For more tips, I recommend @MortenCopenhagen’ article How to Get In and Out of Trouble: The Main post
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Yeah welcome @liamlebron to the community …
Actually there’s things which should be done regarding your case and I think the most part ( the checking ) was already done by Mr @WilfriedB ..and at this stage based on the statistics provided by Mr @WilfriedB you should consider his directives up there ..then don’t forget to follow hence those " Map policies!" for their remind..
And beyond I think you’d like to know what is going on here on connect simply hit " Welcome newbies! " to check and get in touch with some fellows LG ..
#LG
