Solicitation I Just Got Offering Yelp Reviews For Sale Before you get too excited, I'm not ever going to tell you to buy reviews. It's stupid, dangerous, and has the very likely potential to get your account labeled as fraudulent. I'm not even just making assumptions. We tested it by creating "new businesses" (that didn't…
Posted By Anna Roth @annaroth on Fri, Sep 5, 2014 at 8:02 AMThe internet’s all in a tizzy the past few days thanks to a Wednesday ruling by the Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals in San Francisco, which said that review site Yelp could manipulate its ratings for money.So, say a small diner makes a big ad buy on the site, those extra…
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Great idea and very convenient, but too many botched deliveries. Review: One star. That, in a nutshell, sums up investors’ sentiments on Yelp right now. The company’s stock fell as much as 30% in after-hours trading Tuesday after the company posted disappointing sales results. That drop effectively erases all Yelp’s stock gains from the last…
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