My 10 Most-Photographed Places on Google Maps (And the Contractor Playbook Hidden Inside)

I’ve uploaded over 10,000 photos to Google Maps. They’ve been viewed more than 43 million times. I’m a Level 9 Local Guide, one level from the top.

People ask me why I bother. Here’s the honest answer: every photo is a trust signal. Google counts them. Strangers view them. And they compound.

These are the 10 places I’ve photographed the most — every single photo below is really from that place:

The list

1. Ninja Kidz Action Park, Las Vegas — 15 photos and videos, 3.2M views. My most-photographed place on Google Maps. One video of a kid playing basketball on a trampoline court has been watched 3.2 million times. That’s more views than most businesses get on their entire website.

2. Huncho’s Fried Chicken, Las Vegas — 11 photos and videos, 650K views. Chicken wings. That’s it. A plate of wings I photographed has 57,000 views. People decide where to eat based on photos like this.

3. Black Mountain Regional Park, Henderson — 9 photos and videos, 30K views. Hiking trails, viewpoints, water breaks. Outdoor places get photographed because people want to know what the trail actually looks like.

4. ABC 7, Glendale — 8 photos, 377K views. That’s me in the TV studio with the green screen. Behind-the-scenes photos outperform polished ones because they’re real.

5. The Quorum, Mumbai — 8 photos, 105K views. A business club in Mumbai. That’s me with a wine glass at the table. Photos with people in them get trusted more than empty-room shots.

6. EōS Fitness, Glendale — 7 photos and videos, 42K views. A gym mid-shoot. People want to see what a place looks like when it’s alive, not the stock photos from the website.

7. Fogo de Chão, Minneapolis — 3 photos, 257K views. Me with the group out front of the restaurant. A quarter of a million views on a group photo outside a steakhouse.

8. Smith’s, Las Vegas — 1 photo, 67K views. One photo of packaged beef in a grocery display case. 67,000 views. Let that sink in.

9. The Club at LAS — 1 photo, 17K views. Chicken and waffles in an airport lounge. Travelers check these photos before they decide where to sit.

10. Grill Nine Korean BBQ, Las Vegas — 1 photo, 10K views. Meat getting torched with a blowtorch at the table. Action shots beat static ones every time.

Why I’m telling contractors this

If you run a plumbing, HVAC, roofing, or electrical company, look at #8 again. One photo of beef in a grocery case: 67,000 views. Your technicians are standing in front of installed water heaters, new AC units, and clean work areas every single day — and nobody’s photographing any of it.

Here’s what I want every contractor to understand:

Photos beat stars. Ten detailed reviews with photos will beat a hundred five-star ratings with no text. A photo of the installed unit, the clean work area, the technician’s van in the driveway — that’s proof. My photos have 43 million views because people trust what they can see. Ask your customers to snap one photo. Just one.

One photo can do the work of a thousand words. I didn’t write an essay about Smith’s. I took one photo of beef. 67,000 people looked at it. Your customer’s photo of their new furnace does the same thing for your business.

Real beats polished. My behind-the-scenes shots — the TV studio, the gym mid-shoot, the blowtorch at the Korean BBQ — outperform staged photos. A quick phone photo your tech takes at the job site will beat any stock image on your website.

Videos are the multiplier. My most-viewed item isn’t a photo at all — it’s a video with 3.2 million views. A 30-second video of a technician explaining what was wrong and what got fixed will outperform any written review.

Check-ins compound. Every visit, every photo, every review is another signal to Google that a business is real, popular, and worth showing. When your technicians and customers document job sites, you’re building the same compounding signal.

The playbook

Don’t overcomplicate this. Here’s the whole thing:

1. Ask at the moment of delight. Not a week later by email. When the AC is blowing cold and the homeowner is smiling, that’s when your tech says “would you mind snapping a quick photo for our Google page?” and hands them a QR code.
2. Make it stupid easy. QR code on the invoice. QR code on the van. QR code on the technician’s badge. Every scan should land directly on your Google review form, not your homepage.
3. Ask for a photo, not just stars. “Would you snap a quick photo of the new unit?” Photos get viewed. Photos get trusted.
4. Photograph the work yourself. Before and after. The old unit coming out, the new one going in. Thirty seconds with a phone.
5. Respond to every single review. Good or bad. Google watches this, and so does the next customer reading through them.
6. Track it like revenue. Photos and reviews per technician, per week. The techs with the most are usually the techs with the happiest customers. Reward it.

The real lesson

I’m not special. I’m just consistent. I show up, I pay attention, and I document it. That’s the entire strategy behind 10,000 photos and 43 million views.

Your business doesn’t need a marketing agency to do this. It needs a habit. One photo, one review, one check-in at a time — from real customers, at real job sites, with real proof.

Google is the ultimate credibility engine. The question is whether you’re feeding it or ignoring it.

Originally published October 6, 2026.