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  1. Mar 20, 2024 · CBC News reached out to one reviewer whose profile Dean provided as an example of someone who posted fake reviews and eventually had their Yelp account removed. CBC News agreed to withhold the...

  2. An earlier ruling in the lower courts deemed certain negative reviews of a San Francisco law firm defamatory and ordered that they be removed.

  3. Jul 2, 2018 · A divided California Supreme Court has ruled that online review site Yelp.com cannot be ordered to remove posts against a San Francisco law firm that a judge determined were defamatory.

    • Pecking Order For Reviewers
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    • 'Not A Pin Up Board'

    Yelp told Desloges the good reviews were taken off her main page by an electronic system that uses an algorithm to sort reviews. She was told that's not because the reviews weren't genuine, but most likely because her customers aren't regular Yelp users. "If you are a user and you are writing reviews and it’s getting filtered out — keep writing rev...

    On several U.S. sites, CBC News found numerous complaints about Yelp, purportedly from business owners also complaining their good reviews were filtered out. In California, several business owners have tried to sue Yelp, accusing the company of practicing extortion, by telling them if they paid more to advertise on the site their poor ratings would...

    "We are not a pin up board – where you drive by and put something up and you leave. We are a community." A communications expert at Simon Fraser University said consumers should realize sites like Yelp manipulate content to boost their own bottom line, so the reviews are not purely "grassroots". "They are there for generating and making money," sai...

  4. The best way to get a review to appear legit to Yelp is if the customer has a long standing on their platform with multiple reviews, found your company though a Yelp search and then returns later to leave a review on their own, not from a link you provide to them.

  5. If business owners don’t fork over money for ads, Yelp allegedly hides positive reviews and showcases negative ones, essentially holding business reputations hostage. This practice is incredibly unfair and detrimental to both business owners and workers.

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  7. Why Do Yelp Reviews Disappear? There are a number of reasons why a Yelp review has disappeared. Let’s break down some of the most common ones: The review is fake; The author deleted the review; Yelp removed the review because it violated content guidelines; Yelp filtered the review, and it’s considered “not recommended”

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