What Do You Get for Your Google Review Points?
Google Local Guides: 10 Levels To Reach, More Points, Rewards, and New Badges
Google at present becomes more generous to its Local Guides. It has now increased Local Guides Levels from five to x. Earlier, it was limited to v levels, that will be achieved once Local Guides earned 500 points. Beyond this points, there was no levels to achieve. Those who earned 500 or 5000 or 10000 or more were known as Level 5 Local Guides. This felt stagnation among Local Guides. The new level system allows reaching upto Level x brings more enthusiasm to each participants, more recognition, and more contributions.
What is Google Local Guides Programme?
Google Local Guides Programme allows you to share your knowledge about a identify or spot to the world through Google Maps in order to help others who visit or wish to visit the shared places or spots. The places includes tourism spots (eg.: parks, museums, monuments, religious places and the like) hospitals, hotels, shops, offices, malls, industries or any place that public needs to attain.
According to Google Local Guides programme, "Knowledge" has been divided in to vii activities:
- Explore new places (adding new places)
- Review existing places
- Star rating to a place
- Add together new photo of the place
- Answer questions about the place
- Edit / update information well-nigh a place
- Cheque the facts currently shown is true or faux (accuracy of names, address, phone number, website address etc.)
Local Guide can perform one activeness at a fourth dimension or multiple activities, depending the mail service allows. For example, review allows to perform maximum of 3 activities: star rating, write review and upload photos.
Earning Points on Google Local Guides Contributions
Google Map gives individuals to become a member of a earth community through Local guides plan. Customs members contribute their knowledge every bit content to Google Map and in return, fellow member gets reward as Local Guide Points, Levels, and Badges as given below:
- Adding New Place: fifteen points, subject to approval
- Adding / Sharing vidoes: 7 points (recently added this feature)
- Review on existing identify: 5 points
- Calculation a photo either to a place addition or along with review: 5 points
- Editing / Updating a place: v points
- Star Rating to a identify: 1 point
- Answer questions about a place: ane betoken
- Checking facts contributed past others: 1 betoken
Earning more than points leads to reaching higher levels starting from Level one to Level x. Badges shall exist attached to profile photo once Local Guide achieve Level iv. Additionally, there will be offers that can be claimed past higher levels Local Guides. Image given beneath explains how Local Guides can attain various levels while earning points when they contribute contents to Google Map.
Level 6 to Level x have not been bachelor earlier, now added past Google to have more catch from local guides particularly from existing Local Guides.
Comparison of Google Local Guides Points - New Point System Verses Old Point System
- Calculation New Place: New: fifteen points; Onetime: one point
- Calculation Videos: 7 points; Old: northward/a
- Review writing: New: 5 points; Old: 1 point
- Calculation Photo: New: 5 points; Quondam: 1 bespeak per identify
- Editing / Updating a place: New: five points; Former: 1 indicate
- Star Rating to a place: New: 1 point; Onetime: part of review
- Reply questions about a place: New: 1 indicate; Erstwhile: no point
- Checking facts contributed past others: New: i betoken; Old: no signal
The in a higher place comparison reveals that Local Guides are getting more points and tin can at present enthusiastically achieve more levels.
How to Add / Share Videos to Google Maps
This new feature allows Google Local Guides to share / add videos directly from their Android Phone or upload from previously taken videos. The maximum video length should exist x seconds straight and thirty seconds previously recorded.
Adding videos to your existing reviews, tap on edit of a review, then tap add together photograph icon. Press around 10 seconds on capture button after focusing your camera where you desire to show.
Blazon of Videos Recommended by Google
Atmosphere, exterior, features of products and services (better if each product and service capture separate video), food and drink including dishes (hither also each item / dish gets separate videos) and finally personal comments and opinions every bit a video capture.
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