Being an active local guide is to some extent a numbers game. There are the points you earn when you contribute to Google Maps, the levels you reach by getting those points and the counters for the different types of contributions (how many reviews you wrote, how many questions you have answered, etc.), but the most impressive number is beyond any doubt the counter of the views for the pictures you have uploaded. Lots of local guides have seen this count go up into the millions – some even into the billions.
But what is really shown there? What exactly are those ‘views’ and where do they come from? Are there perhaps any tips or hacks to make sure your pictures reach a crazily high view count? In this episode, we will try to answer those questions and find out the truth about views.
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- Email: letsguidepodcast@gmail.com
- Reach out to me on Twitter: LocalGuidesGuru
- My personal blog: janvanhaver.com
- The local guides section on my blog
- Find me on Connect
- Adam’s Top 100 Photo View Leaderboard (links to the November 2022 Leaderboard post, the most recent at the time of the podcast episode publication; there will be newer ones if you see this later)
- Adam’s Top 100 Star Photos Leaderboards (links to the November 2022 post)
- Adam’s Top 100 Local Guides Points Leaderboards (links to the November 2022 post)
- Adam’s Top 100 Local Guides Country by Country Leaderboards (links to the November 2022 post)
- Terry’s post The 90 Degree Photo onConnect
- Terry’s post on Connect about tracking his views count
- Morten’s Storefront Photography Series on Connect
- Morten’s post on Connect about hotspots
- Sign up to become a local guide yourself
- Local Guides Connect – the official forum for Local Guides
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