Can I please have someone find out why none of my reviews are posting publicly? they only show when I am logged in and I have made sure they follow the guidelines. Its been like this for about a month. Every review I post, either positive or negative is just completely hidden from others. They are only ever visible when I am logged in. I’ve sent direct links to my page to others and they have verified that it simply just shows that I have no reviews, when that is not the case at all.
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I took a look at your Maps profile. It says 0 contributions and your level is not shown. This is very unusual.
Did you make a new account just to make this post? If so please leave the Local Guides Program with the new account since we can not have more than one.
Also, please share the link to the other account first if you want me to take at look at it.
It could be that all your contributions were removed (this is very unusual) or hidden for violating some guidelines. Or maybe your contributions were made very recently (within a few days) and that is why they don’t show (yet).
Let me know what you think is going on. How many reviews did you have?
Cheers
Morten
No i did not just make an account to make this post, this is linked to my gmail account.
Here is a photo of what it looks like to me while logged in. And the other one is when i send a link to anyone else or even copy and paste it while not being logged in. None of the reviews I have posted to businesses show up, unless I am logged in. I am the only person that can actually view them and I have been trying to research as to why that might be for over 1 month now. My profile is set to public as well.
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It would be really helpful if you would use the tagging tool when replying to someone here on Connect. Type @ followed by the username. Type slowly. Then we get an e-mail notification and you are more likely to get a prompt reply.
Honestly, I have no clue what is going on. Maybe @ErmesT has an idea.
Cheers
Morten
@MortenCopenhagen Sorry I have never posted here before. Figured just the reply function would be the way to do it. But yes, if I could please get this resolved from someone here that would be fantastic. Maybe @ErmesT can help?
Hi @Christians92 , and thanks for the tag @MortenCopenhagen
Regarding the public profile with zero contributions, this is because all the contributions are “private”
Regarding the main reason of this post, well, there are two ways to explore
A violation of the policies
Flagging a review as private can be an automatic operation (made by an automated filter based on keywords), or manual, if your review have been reported, and checked. The filter is working on keywords, e.g. prices, because they can be interpreted as spam. However, this is possible to fix, as you can see here below. A review is made private when it violates the Maps User Contributed Content Policy
As you can read in Flag and fix inappropriate content "If a review you wrote has been flagged and removed, you can fix it yourself. Edit your review to follow Google review policies — for example, you might remove a phone number or URL from the review. Your review will be automatically republished.
Google uses automated spam detection measures to remove reviews that are probably spam. Although legitimate reviews are sometimes inappropriately removed, these spam prevention measures help improve people’s experiences on Google by ensuring that the reviews they see are authentic, relevant, and useful."
So please try to edit your reviews to make them public again
An inappropriate removal
“Although legitimate reviews are sometimes inappropriately removed, these spam prevention measures help improve people’s experiences on Google” is what is written in the article mentioned before. It means that time by time it may happen. Please drop a note 
in this post 
, for the team to check your profile. Everything that is not against the policies will be released
Its been many many months, and My reviews still do not show up to the public at all. If you are signed into another account they just simply arent there. If I am signed into this account, i can see the reviews. Is this going to be resolved? Seems to be a very common problem with Google Reviews.