Improving your company’s Yelp profile

For business owners wanting to get started on Yelp or improve their presence there, here are a few points to keep in mind. Advertisers can’t pay to add or remove reviews. “Recommended” reviews are chosen by an automated algorithm. You can flag a review for a second look if you’d like, but those “501” reviews (5 […]

Yelp’s Three New Features

Yelp introduces three new features to their crowd-sourced review site for local businesses: Yelfie- Yelp users now have an opportunity to take a check-in photo when visiting a business on Yelp. The camera then flips or reverses so the user can take a picture of themselves. This information, along with the business name and the user’s rating […]

Filtered Yelp Reviews

Yelp.com publish crowd-sourced reviews about local businesses. Yelp uses automated software to recommend the reviews considered to be the most helpful to the Yelp community based primarily on quality, reliability and the reviewer’s activity on Yelp. Some reviews made to businesses do not make the cut and are therefore not factored into this business’s overall star rating. […]

Yelp Reviews Visible on Bing Search Results

Yelp platform is a crowd-sourced local business review and social networking site. Reviews from Yelp are now appearing on results from the web search engine, Bing, when users search for a business name. Bing is displaying the most recent reviews by default, but users can also filter the results to show either “Favorable” or “Critical” reviews. […]