If you want to contribute to making Google Maps an even better service, becoming a Google Maps Local Guide could be for you!

Google Local Guides is a program for dedicated volunteers called Local Guides to keep Search and Maps updated with current information about places, businesses, and local attractions worldwide.

How does Google Maps get all of its local data? From a network of Local Guides. If you'd like to lend your knowledge to Google Maps, here's how.

How to become a Google Local Guide? What are the rewards or perks of being a Google Local Guide? We answer all your questions.

Google Local Guide program incentivizes users to improve Maps and Business Profiles. Join now to start earning points, badges, and benefits!

If Google Maps’ new Local Guides program seems a little familiar, you’re not imagining things. Compare it side-by-side with, say, Yelp, and the similarities become apparent.

Google Maps is giving more prominence to its top Local Guides in a test designed to give travelers easier access to their suggestions for things to do and places to go. The pilot, which places the ...

Being a Local Guide on Google Maps inspires me to take pictures and post them online while avoiding the worst aspects of social media.

Featured Local Guides will appear in the app's For You tab, where you'll be able to follow them to get notified when they post recommendations. Being a Local Guide myself, I'm thrilled about this ...

Are you sure you know how Local Search rankings really work? Discover how this differs from performance in Google Maps.