I realized that my reviews are no longer showing up. If I review a location, the review is visible on my account but my friend is not able to see it when he is looking for the same location on Google maps. What is the reason for that? Are some accounts flagged?
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This has been an ongoing issues that affects some users. Your reviews may get flagged for various reasons. If you attached photos to your review, try to limit to 1-2 photos only, or even just post the review on itself. Make sure they’re high quality and reflects your own experience.
Make sure as well that your reviews don’t contain prohibited/restricted content
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Hello @iyudhi
thank you very much for your insight.
I’m using this app and a review function since over seven or eight years. And as much fun, it is to collect points on photos. I always post my own pictures since I love Photography. It is simply just about the reviews. Even if I just post one or two pictures and try to review a business nothing shows up.
I double checked now every single review. They do not show up. As said, on my profile they’re visible. But other people can’t see them.
@JacobLED if you feel your reviews are not violating any guidelines, you can try submitting for an appeal. You can use the form below
Account investigation for contributions not visible on Google Maps
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@JacobLED some reviews are flagged and it does take a bit more time for them to be checked.
Is your review pending or rejected?
If it pending, just wait.
Rejected is more painful as it is sometimes hard to understand the cause.
I had some reviews being rejected for photos which seemed very legit and not even close to seem like duplicates.
I just remove them.
life is too short to apeal on single contribution (imo).
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I usually never have a pending or rejected notice. It just doesn’t show up when my friends are looking for it. The appeal button shows up in my email, but usually for very old reviews.
Thank you for the link. I sent them a request for an investigation. I don’t think that my reviews are violating the Google Maps standards. But since the past 6-7 months I’m facing this problem.
I was also thinking, the reason behind that might be, that I am not using Google Maps actively anymore. I just have it as a guide and not actively with location services on. It was always a little time consuming to write reviews right on scene, and some day I decided to drop my reviews as a bundle after visiting a city or country, while being at the airport or having a boring bus ride. It’s also a nice flashback, to go through all the moments.
Do you think Google noticed that, and does not recognize my travels to the certain locations? Does it make sense?
Hi @JacobLED If you don’t write anything in your review, it will appear in web browsers but not in Google Maps.
I am having an issue where my reviews are added as a number to the business but are not published. You may be experiencing a similar issue.
There are those who commented in another country and their comments were not published. If you use maps to navigate to the places you visit, you have proof of your travels.
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Makes totally sense. I stopped using Google Maps, in some countries it is totally inaccurate. For example there is an app called Mapplea for India and in Kazakhstan is Yandex Maps much better. I always write a text to my reviews, even always add a photo pr a video. I tried it though. With or without proof of travel, they’re not showing up. 