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A Good Quarter For Social Media: LinkedIn And Yelp Overachieve
In what’s turning out to be a good earnings season for social media companies, on Thursday LinkedIn and Yelp joined Facebook and Yahoo! in reporting better-than-predicted third quarter numbers....
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Facebook Graph Search Arrives To Challenge Google, Yelp, Foursquare & Others
After largely ignoring that little white box at the top of its interface for years, Facebook is finally getting serious about search. The company announced today a new experience that it’s calling...
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Yelp Reports Q4 Losses As Local Gets More Crowded Than Ever
Yelp just reported its fourth quarter earnings and things aren’t looking that sunny for the stalwart local discovery site. In Q4 Yelp raked in $41.2 million in revenue, losing $.08 cents per share for...
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Winnebago Buy Local hosts SEO, Yelp workshop March 28 – The Rock River Times
Winnebago Buy Local hosts SEO, Yelp workshop March 28The Rock River TimesWinnebago Buy Local will host a workshop about search engine optimization (SEO) and Yelp for local business owners at 6 p.m.,...
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Yelp Reports Record Highs With $46 Million In Net Revenue For Q1 2013
Yelp released their first quarter 2013 earnings report today, announcing a 68 percent increase from Q1 2012 with $46 million in net revenue this quarter. CEO Jeremy Stoppelman started the earnings...
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Yelp Optimization: How to Claim & Optimize Your Business Listing
With more than 100 million monthly unique visitors, Yelp is a great place for local businesses to gain visibility. This guide will show you how to claim your business listing, make sure its fully...
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Local Search Battle Heats Up: Can Yelp Fight Off Facebook & Foursquare?
Is Facebook – and to a lesser extent Foursquare – becoming more Yelp-like, and thus a threat? Some might believe the answer is an obvious yes, but it’s worth looking at some of the moats Yelp has built...
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Keep It All Straight and Get Started with the Locals: Yahoo Local, Yelp,...
It’s incredibly important to get your business involved in local SEO, but businesses should not stop at just one search engine or one local listing service. If you’re a business owner, creating a...
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How to Claim & Set Up Local Profiles: From Google+ to Yelp by @jeffchiarelli
Claiming and setting up local profiles is an important branding activity that has tremendous SEO value. Most websites that offer local business listings follow the same listing process, with a few...
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Yelp announces new feature that closes gap between local SEO and sales – Brafton
Yelp announces new feature that closes gap between local SEO and salesBraftonCompanies use SEO best practices and invest in social media marketing to gain search visibility and engage their prospects...
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Google Relaunches Zagat App With Yelp In Mind
Last week Google killed the Google+ Local mobile app for iOS, saying that all the same content was available in Google Maps for iOS. Today the company announced the relaunch of the Zagat site and...
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Yelp Outs More Businesses With Another Batch Of Paid Review Alerts
Yelp’s battle against phony reviews and unacceptable tactics to earn reviews continues today with the company posting another batch of “Consumer Alert” messages on business profile pages. This is the...
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Add Reviews On Yelp Directly From The Mobile App by @smorgs13
Not too long ago, Jeff Chiarelli, taught us how simple it is to claim a Yelp profile. Did you take his advice? Today Yelp released an update (specifically to iOS devices first) to the mobile app that...
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Yelp Now Allows Mobile Reviews, Adds More Consumer Alerts
Yelp now will let users leave reviews for businesses via their smartphones. Separately, Yelp also announced that is releasing a new batch of alerts on profiles where business owners have used some sort...
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Yelp Gets Bad Reviews From Small Business Owners in Los Angeles
Disgruntled business owners recently vented their frustrations at a Yelp town hall meeting. Not surprisingly, the majority of the complaints had to do with the site’s reviews filter. Business owners...
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Study Reports 90% of Business Owners Trust Yelp Reviews to Make Purchasing...
A recent study from Merchant Warehouse reports that business owners (and consumers in general) are putting more of their trust into online reviews sites, specifically Yelp. As mentioned on WebProNews,...
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Yelp Triples The Search Filters On Its iOS App
Yelp quietly made a pretty big expansion of its search capabilities on iOS within the past week. The company’s latest iOS app update included a new photo viewer, increased visibility of bookmarked...
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Yelp Sues Law Firm Over Supposedly Writing Fake Reviews
Yelp is no stranger to the court system; it has been sued many times by disgruntled small business owners upset over its business practices and authenticity of reviews. However, in an unusual turn of...
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Yelp: About 25% of Our Reviews are Fake
Yelp says that up to a quarter of the reviews the company receives are fake, and that its automated review filter suppresses about 25 percent of reviews it deems as being suspicious. However, Yelp...
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Yelp on Fake Reviews: We Filter 25% of Reviews for Being Suspicious
Yelp says that up to a quarter of the reviews the company receives may be fake, and that its automated review filter suppresses about 25 percent of reviews it deems as being suspicious. However, Yelp...
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