Reviews Online: Get Rid Of Bad Yelp Reviews
04/10/2016 11:10
Reviews online: Dealing With Your Yelp Reviews
YOU DON’T REALLY WANT TO IGNORE THOSE REVIEWS ONLINE, DO YOU?
Your Reviews Online: Be Proactive On Yelp
- Claim your Yelp listing and respond to the reviews online. www.biz.yelp.com/claiming
- Actively seek out reviews from your best customers: Send an email to your best customers with a link to your Yelp page Have business cards printed with your Yelp address Tip: use a URL shortener like bit.ly to abbreviate the URL on the business card to something like, https://bit.ly/Sd6RCB Print POP material in your store and ask people to login and review from their smartphones or setup a text-2-review system for the most seamless and efficient results.
Managing Your Reviews On Yelp
3. Yelp discourages active solicitation of reviews. Yelp has a heavy-handed algorithm and buries many good and negative reviews. Whether a review is visible or not depends on things like: How new is the Yelp account of the reviewer? Has the reviewer ever left other reviews online before? Are all the commenters reviews 5-star? Regardless, you DO need to solicit reviews to manage your brand online. Because now more than ever does the consumer have the buying power in the marketplace