
Yelp Penalizes 100+ Movers Alliance Business Listings After Group Charged With Misleading Customers
Yelp’s Reputation Warnings are part of the site’s overall efforts to stop businesses from manipulating their online reputations and being...

Yelp Earnings: 51 Percent Revenue Growth, But Outlook Disappoints
Yelp announced Q2 2015 earnings this afternoon. The company had quarterly revenues of $133.9 million, which represented 51 percent...

Study Claims Google Is Delivering “Degraded” Search Results, Adding Steam To EU Antitrus
In a study sponsored by Yelp – one of the companies listed as a complainant in the EU antitrust case against Google, former FTC advisor...

Yelp Upgraded Business Owner App Brings Mobile-First Account Management
Yelp has updated and upgraded its Yelp for Business Owner’s mobile app — for both iOS and Android. The new version of the app adds two...

Federal “Review Freedom Act” Wants To Make U.S. Yelp-Safe For Consumers
Many non-lawyers are unaware that it’s legally possible for consumers to waive their free speech rights to negatively review or otherwise...

Yelp Posts 55 Percent Revenue Growth ($118.5M) But Disappoints Investors
Yelp announced Q1 earnings this afternoon of $118.5 million, which was 55 percent growth over Q1 2014. However the market had expected...

VA Court: Yelp Doesn’t Have To Reveal Identities Of Anonymous Reviewers
The Virginia Supreme Court has issued a ruling that Yelp is not compelled to reveal the identities of seven anonymous online reviewers....

Incentivized Check-ins: A “White-Hat” Trick For Getting More Reviews On Yelp
At the LSA-SMX West Local Search Advantage Workshop this week, Yelp’s Luther Lowe offered a number of “white hat tips” for marketers on...

Yelp Achieves Profitability For First Time, Announces 72 Million Mobile Users
Yelp just announced Q4 2014 and full year results. Revenue came in at just under $110 million for the quarter, which represented 56...

FTC Closes Yelp “Review Manipulation” Investigation Without Taking Action
Yelp reported on its blog that the US Federal Trade Commission has concluded a “deep inquiry into [Yelp’s] business practices” and...

Yelp Introduces New App For Business Owners With Push Notifications
Yelp is releasing a new app for business owners. Unsurprisingly called “Yelp for Business Owners,” it’s available for iOS and Android...

Yelp Has Strong Q3, 45 Percent Of Reviews Now From Mobile
This afternoon Yelp announced revenue of $102.5 million for third quarter, which represented 67 percent growth vs. last year. Revenues...

Yelp Adds Hotel Reservations To Its List Of Booking Services
Yelp has increasingly been integrating transaction and commerce capabilities into its site. It started long ago with OpenTable and more...

Yelp Fined $450K By FTC For Collecting Kids’ Registration Info
The U.S. FTC announced today that Yelp agreed to pay $450,000 to settle a complaint brought for violations of the Children’s Online...

New California Law Says Businesses Can’t Stop Consumers From Posting Online Reviews
So-called “non-disparagement clauses,” buried in terms and conditions or consumer purchase agreements, would probably be voided under the...

California “Extortion” Class Action Against Yelp Dismissed
Yelp has been repeatedly sued under various theories for allegedly manipulating reviews to gain ad revenue from business owners. However,...

Yelp Adds Bing Translation For Reviews In Mobile Apps
Local knowledge is usually the most, er, knowledgeable. So if you are looking for the best place for tapas in Barcelona, Spain, or the...

Lawsuit Claims Yelp Manipulated Reviews To Deceive Investors
Throughout its ten year history, Yelp has been sued a number of times for allegedly manipulating reviews to generate ad revenue from...

Merchant Sues To Stop Yelp’s “Trustworthy” Review Claims
A substantial number of local business owners are frustrated by (even resentful of) Yelp’s review filter. Now operating under the banner...
























