Google provides an official platform for local guides, called Local Guides Connect. What exactly can you find there? What can local guides do there? And why should you definitely check it out?

SHOWNOTES

• • Email: letsguidepodcast@gmail.com
  • Reach out to me on Twitter: LocalGuidesGuru
  • My personal blog: https://janvanhaver.com/
  • The local guides section on my blog
  • Sign up to become a local guide yourself
  • Local Guides Connect – the official forum for Local Guides
  • The post where Connect topics are explained
  • One of the Connect posts on how to edit your personal signature
  • The URL you can bookmark to access all posts wit a specific language label: https://www.localguidesconnect.com/t5/General-Discussion/bd-p/localguide/label-name/es (just replace the last 2 letters with the letters representing your language: ES for Spanish, IT for Italian, etc.)
  • The URL I have bookmarked for navigating Idea Exchange
  • Local Guides World group on Facebook

TRANSCRIPTION

Jan Van Haver 0:06
Hello, and welcome to yet another episode of the LetsGuide Podcast, the ultimate podcast for Google Local Guides. This is episode number 7, and today we will be talking about Local Guides Connect, which happens to be the official platform provided by Google. What exactly can you find there? What should you as local guys do there? And why should you definitely check it out? As usual, I want to point out that I have no official affiliation whatsoever to Google or local guides team. I’m just a local guide like most of you. So everything you hear today is just my personal interpretation. This episode is recorded the end of May 2019, and the situation described is therefore the one as it is today and it might change in the future, of course. And actually, some of the things I wanted to talk about about today have changed. Exactly today, a couple of hours ago, a post was released announcing some changes. So we will definitely cover that as well. Continue reading “Episode 7: Local Guides Connect” →