Yelp has a new tool to help people track businesses that have tried to manipulate their standing on the review platform..
Yelp has a wall of shame for businesses caught paying for fake reviews::Yelp has a new tool to help people track businesses that have tried to manipulate their standing on the review platform…
Same. I remember friends who owned a small restaurant early in the Yelp days who were constantly harassed and extorted. They survived but the threat to their business was palpable.
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Funny how a company that is known for extortion is parading itself as something that looks out for cheating in reviews.
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Same. I remember friends who owned a small restaurant early in the Yelp days who were constantly harassed and extorted. They survived but the threat to their business was palpable.
I’m sure there’s a price to get yourself removed from that wall.