Become a Google local guide? This yields it
Perhaps you have never heard of it: the local guides from Google. It is one of the newest additions that Google has added to its unsurpassed Maps platform - and you undoubtedly know that. You can read about what a local guide is, how you can become it and what it can bring you, in this blog.
Share your knowledge as a Google local guide
What if every piece inside information would be freely available over any place on earth? That is, simply put, the starting point of Google's local guides system. Anyone with a Google account can become a Google local guide and share reviews and other information about places he knows well.
There is only one condition for those places: they must exist as a location in Google Maps. Once this is the case, you can leave a review about the location - possibly supplemented with images such as photos or a video. Sun review write not only about restaurants, hotels or museums, but also about regular shops, your local mosque or the gym around the corner.
Opinions, but also facts
What distinguishes the local guides system from other review sites is that opinions and opinions are not merely exchanged. It is equally important for Google to provide actual (trivial) information about locations in Google Maps. Sharing simple facts, which you can only know as an actual visitor, is therefore highly encouraged.
Consider questions such as: is this store accessible to people in a wheelchair? Is the music in this cafe loud or soft? Is it nice to take children to this park? Google Maps must, through all the information that the Google local guides collect and share, eventually become a true encyclopedia with every conceivable information about all public places in the world.
How do I become a local guide?
As mentioned, anyone with a Google account can become a local guide. For example, you start by giving a rating (one to five stars) about a location, or you write a review. If you have enabled the location data on your (Android) smartphone, you will also notice that Google regularly asks you to share information about places you have visited. Bit by bit you share your inside information about the places you visit or just know well.
What does it deliver?
In principle, you are a local guide for the honor. Think of it as adding information on Wikipedia: you don't get paid for it, but you do it because you like it and want to contribute to the information available online. To encourage you, Google uses a badge system.
For every piece of information - a review, review, photo, video or answers to questions - that you share, you receive one or more points. As you collect more points, you rise in levels. You reach that first promotion after fifteen points, but the steps are getting bigger.
From the fourth level - we write 250 points - you will receive a badge with your Google account. The whole world can see that you are a real Google local guide. The higher your level, the more extensive your badge. However beautiful that badge is: in the end you become a local guide because you enjoy sharing your knowledge and giving your opinion.
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Nicely summarized editors! Pro deo indeed.
and how important it is not to support local entrepreneurs. you can order everything via the internet, but that will not make a city center more pleasant
We have a vlog channel on youtube and have certainly risen in subscribers, due to the many photos we have shared on vacations. It is really nice to work on a local guide. You can find us on youtube under "The big family vlog"
we like to give entrepreneurs who do their best above average extra support and also to help the seekers make their decision.
Totally agree!!!
My free honor and badges obtained for my enormous amount of free information and photos and reviews provided to the billions of profit-making Google group that uses my information for free, without any compensation.
It is a pity that the earlier commitment no longer applies as a reward for extra cloud space. A visit to the Google "factory" or a monetary reward would also be appropriate.
I think it's better if I stop being a local guide.
I find it very annoying when people get bad revieuws. You will not get rid of these revolutions quickly, while you may work super hard to grow and improve. After you have improved yourself, such a revieuw is still online. You are therefore assessed by different people, with different tastes, different cultures, and educational backgrounds. You end up in a point system and all eyes are on you. Do you get plus? 9f negatives?
Can you adapt the system more to wonder, curiosity? What kind of world do you want to create?
Kind regards,
Janneke van Eck
And if someone writes (up to 2x) as a "review": I have nothing with it, does someone get paid for it?
At least I know that I no longer have to take those reviews seriously.
That there is no real reward to it seems healthy because it would affect you. So I do it for the points and the honor. Now 1000 points of the week were taken without notice. So far no response to my mail to google. That is just as sour. As other guiders will know it is hard work to get higher from level 7 levels.
Yes, it's nice to share something. Some reviews are really great, with good information about the place in question, there are also some that you can't do anything with. Even that is nice to read!
I have now posted around 90 photos with around 140,000 views !!
But what does 'representation' say? I often can't even find my own photos on Maps.
Op zich wel.leuk om.recencies te geven.doe het zo eerlijk en objectief mogelijk. Als je een vieze zaak hebt dan vind ik dat je daar mensen voir mag behoeden
Bij hardwerkende ondernemers die er aljes aan doen om hun klanten te behagen mogen best een pluim.krygen..maak er niet mijn levenswerk van.
Dat local guid zijn..je doed het voor de eer..zoals het miljarden bedrijf Google verkondigd..
Wat kan mij zo n badche nou schelen.
Haha…
Net de bloedbank Sanquin. Je doet iets goed, maar iemand anders strijkt het geld op en betaald ook nog eens geen of te weinig belasting
Sinds 2.5 jaar plaats ik foto’s en revieuws. Foto’s zijn bijna 26 miljoen keer bekeken en revieuws enkele honderdduizenden keren. Opeens zijn al de beelden wereldwijd verdwenen slechts de teksten van revieuws zijn er nog. Local Guide niveau 9, bijna 10. Vele positieve reacties uit binnen en buitenland op vooral toerisme. Waarom doen de foto’s niet meer mee?