Google Local Guides

Let's begin by looking into the "year in review", all puns intended, for the Google Guides platform and my personal little contributions within it.     Within 2023, at some point, I decided to dedicate some time to the Google Guides. As I view "creative writing" as a stress outlet, as well as photography, reviewing businesses whilst travelling … [Read more...] about Google Guides: Year in Review & My Insights Into The Platform

Sometime in December whilst I was in Tokyo or Kuala Lumpur or Singapore, we rolled past the 5M views for photos. Unfortunately we didn't reach the potential 7M projection that I made in the previous Google Guides post - and I think I know why (more below)... Our current views as at 10th January, 2024 is 5,389,088 views! (from 1,255 photos). During the Japan trip I … [Read more...] about Google Local Guides: 5 Million Photo Views

I signed off the last Google Guide post where we hit the 4 million mark for Google Photo Views with the promise of posting again when the view count hits 5M. But I thought that we needed to explore this very surprising outcome after positing this photo just on 1 week ago. It's already received 100K views; so let's do a quickie post to break it … [Read more...] about Google Local Guides: Photo Gets 100K Views In 1 Week!

When I discussed us rolling over the 3.5 million mark for Google Photo Views I believed we would reach 4 million views on the 25th October based on trajectory. We've been rocking a lot of photos but I have done less reviews due to time constraints with end-of-year busy-ness. We've passed that mark yesterday, 29th October, with 4,027,454 views! (from 918 photos). I hit … [Read more...] about Google Local Guides: 4 Million Photo Views

We are BIG time! Call me a trend-jacking algorithm-guru influencer. I just got completed talking about going over the 3-million on Google Guides, and we've already hit 3.5 milly now. I've cracked whatever virality mechanism in the algorithm, cos I can only see it hitting fast forward and us perhaps even doubling before the end of the year (that's my prediction). We'll … [Read more...] about Google Local Guides: 3.5 Million Photo Views