Reviewing the same establishment twice?

Good Morning!

I need ideas on how to handle a question that pops up on my Google Maps Page after I visit one of my favorite places. The question asks me to rate, review and add photos for the place which I have already reviewed.

It seems logical to me to simply ignore this question or suggestion. Or should I write

  • a duplicate review; or
  • edit the original review to bring it up-to-date?

Many thanks. Cercis

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Hi @Cercis

It is not possible to add more than a single review to each place.

So you are left with the following options:

Overwrite your old review, or

Add new comments to your existing review. Then please make clear when the original part was written.

Or just ignore the prompts. It is a shame that Google Maps is not able to turn off the prompting for places we already reviewed.

Cheers

Morten

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@MortenCopenhagen

Many thanks for your prompt reply. Your reply is as I’d thought it might be. Rather than rely on my own interpretation I thought it best to seek out an opinipon from someone with more experience than I.

BYW, I have been slowly reading your series in “How not to get into trouble!” Cercis

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@Cercis

I’m always happy to help.

The tutorial about suspensions is really long. I’m sorry, but those who get suspended need proper help.

I took at quick look at your contributions and they look splendid so I doubt you will ever be suspended :kissing_heart: :wink:

All the best

Morten

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Hi @Cercis

This happened in the past, due to a temporary issue of Google Maps.

If we exclude the glitch (as it was involving the whole community) I can see only a reason for this to happen: a merge with a duplicate. It happened to me twice, and the only solution is to wait a few days.

During a merge the contributions are partially disconnected from the location, so it may happen that your review seems to be missing even if, when you visit the listing, your review and your photos are there.

In some cases also the photos disappear, and seems to be related to an unknown place.

Last time it took a week for everything to be back in the business listing, so please be patient and inform us about the evolution

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@MortenCopenhagen

Thank you for the vote of confidence.

BTW, I liked what you wrote about posting a negative review.

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Hi, @Cercis

According to this thread (Add, edit, or delete Google Maps reviews & ratings ), "…your review, score, and details about a place show up in Google Maps and on your profile until you take them down. After your review is published, you can edit it or change the rating and pictures you included."

So, if you write your review again, it means you edit it. Not write the review twice. That’s allowed. The date of your review is the date you edit/update it.

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Hello Cercis

i often visit a place I have reviewed before. What I do is change the rating (number of stars ) if needed

Then I use the edit option on my review

and type something like

” updated feb 2022” and the write my update

When I am done with my update

i type

original review from ( add date)

and leave the old review as it was.

If I run out of space I delete parts of the old old review

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@Dukster

Excellent information about how to merge and format new updates with older reviews. Thank you very much. I do visit new, for me, places however, I also have old favorites!