Yelp Sucks

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If anybody wants to watch the perfect own of Yelp, go check out Kay Dean's latest YouTube video on her Fake Review Watch channel. Within six days of her latest video, Yelp removed previously recommended fake positive reviews.

please learn from my mistake and DONT MAKE A YELP profile for your business. the second I did, I literally started getting spam called and emailed by Yelp reps trying to get me to pay to boost my page. but even worse than that I now get 30-50 scam calls a day. I reached out to Yelp multiple times asking them to please change the phone number for the business and they refuse. sack of shit and honestly useless business wise

I received a one star review from a person who's never been my client. They said I'd done a bad job and then referenced that I don't live in the area anymore (true, which is one of the reasons I obviously never worked with him). The reviewer is unable to be contacted through Yelp due to their settings.

I reported it as not a real client review and left a public response saying the same. But I'm so confused why someone would write a seemingly specific review (referencing my location) while also not actually having worked with me.

What I think is weirdest is, 2 years ago he wrote another 1 star review for someone who does what I do and they also commented back saying they had no idea who he was and hasn't worked with him. Other than that, he's posted mainly 5 star reviews of places.

Both of us are in the top search results organically for our same industry and we also are both women.

Am I missing some sort of angle here? Who does this kind of thing and why?

Also, what's everyone's success rate been for getting these kinds of reviews removed?