How to fix a hidden Google Review on your own Local Guide account

[Brian - TGL]

I tested this on 5 individual reviews in my Local Guide account that were not being shown publicly, at the recommendation of @Colan Nielsen but I wanted to make sure it was something that people could see easily firsthand (the solution was a little buried in an ongoing thread):

I just recorded a quick video that shows how quickly I was able to correct this issue on my own reviews:

 

[JoyHawkins]

So you got it to show up by just adding to it? I've had people try deleting things before and that doesn't always work.

 

[Brian - TGL]

I am going through the share links in my reviews and looking for stragglers that I didn't notice previously were not showing.

I just found another one for a provincial park and went to the share link:

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I added a little bit of text at the end "$11/night in the winter." clicked post, and refreshed the share link that was still open in a browser that was not logged in to that Google account and it was visible again, with the same link:

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That would be an interesting audit tool actually, to be able to be able to scrape all the shared review links in a Google Account and return the ones that have "This review is no longer available." on the page.