Yelp ad revenue jumps 13% to record $1.28 billion
Yelp is prioritizing businesses within the Services categories this year, aiming to help generate more quality leads for advertisers.
Yelp rolls out live support consultations for advertisers
Advertisers no longer have to wait on hold for a support representative to become available, as they can now schedule appointments.
Turning reviews into opportunities for reputation and SEO impact
Consumers are most likely to search for a local business on Google or Yelp and pick a winner based on those reviews and ratings. Helping pointers on dealing with positive and negative reviews, and how they can boost your business’ local ranking.
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Study: How ready are businesses for voice search?
A new analysis of 73,000 business listings found that 96% of all business locations fail to list their business information correctly.
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Reports: Fake reviews are a growing problem on Amazon, Google
Facebook is reportedly the source of some of the fake review solicitations.
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Yelp offers new ad customization to advertisers
Advertisers are permitted to pick an image and favorite review or let an algorithm do it for them.
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6 smart e-commerce lessons to boost local business
With more and more people window shopping on a small screen, contributor Wesley Young shares six ways to use online tactics to drive customers to an offline store.
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Are Yelp ads worth paying for? How to figure it out
Contributor Joy Hawkins isn’t sure Yelp ads are better in all cases and provides a detailed case study comparing the efficiency of Adwords over Yelp ads.
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Law firm that used contest to solicit Google reviews sees all but one disappear
Incentivizing reviews individually or ‘in bulk’ is a bad idea.
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Google’s growth in online local reviews continues to dominate, but…
Contributor Jamie Pitman shows us why we should keep an eye on TripAdvisor and Facebook when trying to increase online reviews.
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Yelp tests offline attribution using guest WiFi and email matching
The company said that every $1 spent on Yelp ads resulted in a $110 offline return, based on aggregate transaction data.
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Why entities may power the future of location-based data
Businesses with physical locations need to strengthen their entities, says Columnist Adam Dorfman — doing so helps Google track customers and strengthen your findability.
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Report: Google exploring sale of Zagat reviews
Might there be an Act 3 for the venerable restaurant guide?
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Google again showing third-party reviews in local results
Program has been in place since 2016 and involves direct, opt-in integration.
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3 inconsistencies in Yelp’s review solicitation crackdown
Yelp has taken a hard line against review solicitation, but columnist Brian Patterson believes the company may be taking it too far.
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Coming to terms with fake reviews
In the same way that Google considers some forms of SEO to be unacceptable, they and other review sites dislike any reviews that aren’t organic — yet fake reviews are still prevalent. Columnist Kevin Lee discusses the scope of the problem and why you should resist the temptation to solicit fake…
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Yelp increasingly cracking down on ‘review solicitation’ across the internet
The company wants to stop the practice of asking for customer reviews on its site, and third-party sites as well.
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Yext begins to verticalize local business listings syndication with ‘Yext for Food’
Moves seek to provide enhanced data with more vertically specific attributes to various consumer search and discovery points.
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Yelp says Google violated ‘do not crawl’ provision of 2013 FTC settlement agreement
Reportedly, numerous Yelp business images were found in Google Maps.
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Business profile and review best practices from TripAdvisor and Yelp
Businesses that complete their profiles see 5x the customer leads each month.
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