Archive for "yelp"

Don’t expect to see any Yelp or CitySearch reviews in Google Place pages anymore, they have been removed all together by Google.

TripAdvisor, Yelp and Citysearch have long been complaining that Google was stealing their customer reviews about local businesses and reproducing them on its very own Place pages. Now Google have finally taken action andremoved all reviews from external…

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It’s not uncommon to receive a bad review once in a while, not every business is perfect. But what do you do when someone posts such a review online? It’s simple… you must respond.

There are many places online where people can leave a review about your website, Yelp, Google Places, Yellow Pages and CitySearch just to name a few.…

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We thought it wouldn’t take long and Google certainly didn’t disappoint.

Less than two months after its release, Google has started pushing reviews and ratings from Hotpot into Google Maps.

Google’s aim for this is to make the Google Maps results more personalized for users by providing more personal, relevant and trustworthy reviews and to stay up to…

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Reviews and testimonials are the ultimate way to offer would-be customers proof that your business is trustworthy and your products/services do actually provide the right results.

They are now even more important with Google Maps/Places and Yelp making customers reviews a key element for ranking well for local search.

How do you go about getting reviews and testimonials…

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The already complicated relationship between Google and Yelp has just become worse with news that Yelp’s reviews have been removed from Google Places search results.

Yelp, which operates a local reviews web site with more than 31 million monthly unique visitors, was approached by Google some years ago when Google was developing what is now Google Places. As per the…

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After failing in its bid to buy local review site, Yelp, Google have launched a new mobile search tool that could be detrimental to Yelp’s mobile success.

“Near Me Now” turns your location into an automated search query and makes finding or learning about places in your immediate vicinity very easy.

Currently available for iPhone and Android phone users in…

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The headlines were a buzz with Google acquisition talks late last week. People close to the subject said Google is in discussions to buy Yelp – a local business review site.

Yelp, which was founded by two Paypal executives back in 2004, apparently has 26 million users per month, with over 8 million reviews of local US…

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