{"id":576,"date":"2014-09-04T16:03:01","date_gmt":"2014-09-04T23:03:01","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.brendasimon.com\/blog\/?p=576"},"modified":"2014-09-04T16:28:58","modified_gmt":"2014-09-04T23:28:58","slug":"frustrated-with-yelp","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.brendasimon.com\/blog\/frustrated-with-yelp\/","title":{"rendered":"Frustrated with Yelp?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Businesses have tried to make it easier for customers to review their business on <a href=\"http:\/\/www.yelp.com\/biz\/brenda-simon-creations-walnut\" target=\"_blank\">Yelp<\/a>, by having a laptop set up in their place of business.\u00a0 Problem is with reviews coming from the same IP address (an address\u00a0 related to your internet connection) these are snagged as fake reviews by Yelp and thus, filtered aka \u201cnot recommended\u201d and do not factor into your overall star rating.\u00a0 Be aware of what is acceptable, and do not purchase services claiming to remove your negative reviews.\u00a0 Deception and gaming Yelp does not work.\u00a0 Here&#8217;s Yelp&#8217;s idea of how to garner reviews. \u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/biz.yelp.com\/support\/review_solicitation\" target=\"_blank\">Read more<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Ignoring your Yelp reviews sends a poor message to potential clients.\u00a0 Responding gives you control. \u00a0A disgruntled reviewer opens the discussion to explain your business practices and customer satisfaction goals.\u00a0 When you have tried unsuccessfully to rectify an unhappy client there are so many opportunities to put out a positive message \u2013 seize it.<\/p>\n<p>A free listing on Yelp is a good value.\u00a0 If you don\u2019t have the time to manage your online reviews (Yelp and all others) give me a call to discuss my <a href=\"http:\/\/www.brendasimon.com\/webmaster-service.html\" target=\"_blank\">Webmaster Services<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft wp-image-578\" src=\"http:\/\/www.brendasimon.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/09\/drive-your-website.jpg\" alt=\"drive-your-website\" width=\"600\" height=\"256\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.brendasimon.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/09\/drive-your-website.jpg 826w, https:\/\/www.brendasimon.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/09\/drive-your-website-300x128.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 600px) 100vw, 600px\" \/><\/p>\n<p><strong>\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Businesses have tried to make it easier for customers to review their business on Yelp, by having a laptop set up in their place of business.\u00a0 Problem is with reviews coming from the same IP address (an address\u00a0 related to &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.brendasimon.com\/blog\/frustrated-with-yelp\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[204,178,1],"tags":[108,175,168,143,167],"class_list":["post-576","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-internet-marekting","category-online-reputation-2","category-smallbusinesswebsite","tag-google-review","tag-monitor-online-reputation","tag-online-reputation","tag-yelp","tag-yelp-reviews"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.brendasimon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/576","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.brendasimon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.brendasimon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.brendasimon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.brendasimon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=576"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.brendasimon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/576\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":580,"href":"https:\/\/www.brendasimon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/576\/revisions\/580"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.brendasimon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=576"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.brendasimon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=576"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.brendasimon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=576"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}