{"id":166,"date":"2011-06-29T17:04:31","date_gmt":"2011-06-29T23:04:31","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/bubblemedia2.wpengine.com\/?p=166"},"modified":"2013-09-04T19:25:37","modified_gmt":"2013-09-05T01:25:37","slug":"yelp-bad-review","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bubblelife.advicelocal.com\/?p=166","title":{"rendered":"Yelp! I&#8217;ve Got a Bad Review!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Why Doesn&#8217;t Yelp Show My Great Reviews?<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><a title=\"Yelp.com\" href=\"http:\/\/www.yelp.com\/\" target=\"_blank\">Yelp.com<\/a>\u00a0is a marvel of business reviews from everyday customers. I&#8217;ve used Yelp many times to locate a restaurant when in an unfamiliar city, and I&#8217;m not alone. Almost 50 million people visit Yelp every month. With over 18 million reviews, &#8220;Yelpers&#8221; have a lot to say about local businesses and sometimes even yours.<\/p>\n<p>Yelp works great for local businesses when the reviews are good, but\u00a0what if a bad review gets posted?<\/p>\n<p>The first answer that almost everyone tries is to get a friend to post a positive review. But, Yelp figured out long ago that a single glowing review (or maybe even all glowing reviews) from a Yelper was an indication that the review may be &#8220;biased&#8221;. Yelp employs an interesting and undisclosed filtering algorithm that attempts to detect biased reviews and filter them out. Businesses can still display these filtered reviews but it takes a bit of work.<\/p>\n<p>The best way to get positive reviews posted on Yelp is to regularly encourage all customers to provide their reviews of your business and hope that a few of them are not excluded by Yelp&#8217;s bias filters. And of course,\u00a0<span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">the best way to get people to say positive things about your business is to give them a positive experience<\/span>.<\/p>\n<p>For more information on Yelp&#8217;s filtering please visit:<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/officialblog.yelp.com\/2009\/10\/why-yelp-has-a-review-filter.html\" target=\"_blank\">http:\/\/officialblog.yelp.com\/2009\/10\/why-yelp-has-a-review-filter.html<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Why Doesn&#8217;t Yelp Show My Great Reviews? Yelp.com\u00a0is a marvel of business reviews from everyday customers. I&#8217;ve used Yelp many times to locate a restaurant when in an unfamiliar city, and I&#8217;m not alone. Almost 50 million people visit Yelp every month. With over 18 million reviews, &#8220;Yelpers&#8221; have a lot to say about local [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[12],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-166","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-online-directories"],"jetpack-related-posts":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/bubblelife.advicelocal.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/166","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/bubblelife.advicelocal.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/bubblelife.advicelocal.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bubblelife.advicelocal.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bubblelife.advicelocal.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=166"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/bubblelife.advicelocal.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/166\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bubblelife.advicelocal.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=166"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bubblelife.advicelocal.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=166"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bubblelife.advicelocal.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=166"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}