{"id":86,"date":"2009-03-21T11:33:42","date_gmt":"2009-03-21T16:33:42","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/sftodo.com\/blog\/?p=86"},"modified":"2009-03-21T11:38:33","modified_gmt":"2009-03-21T16:38:33","slug":"are-yelp-reviews-real-i-want-to-buy-a-review","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sftodo.com\/blog\/2009\/03\/21\/are-yelp-reviews-real-i-want-to-buy-a-review.html","title":{"rendered":"Are Yelp Reviews Real?   I want to buy a review."},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"2e5142c0289a1f785cf2dcce097231a4\" data-index=\"1\" style=\"float: left; margin: 10px 10px 10px 0;\">\n<script type=\"text\/javascript\"><!--\r\ngoogle_ad_client = \"ca-pub-6725039255769208\";\r\n\/* Reno Hotels Leaderboard *\/\r\ngoogle_ad_slot = \"0584775893\";\r\ngoogle_ad_width = 728;\r\ngoogle_ad_height = 90;\r\n\/\/-->\r\n<\/script>\r\n<script type=\"text\/javascript\"\r\nsrc=\"http:\/\/pagead2.googlesyndication.com\/pagead\/show_ads.js\">\r\n<\/script>\n<\/div>\n<p>As a publisher of <a href=\"http:\/\/www.sftodo.com\/lodge.html\">San Francisco hotel <\/a>reviews for many years, we found recent <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nbcphiladelphia.com\/around_town\/the_scene\/Yelp-Mafia-Allegations-Simmer-into-Extortion.html\" rel=\"nofollow\">news stories <\/a>pelting Yelp including San Francisco&#8217;s East Bay Express to be very interesting.  News outlets including the New York Times and LA Times are considering whether there is any relationship between being a Yelp.com advertiser and getting great reviews on the site.  We&#8217;ve generally found Yelp recommendations to be better than a &#8220;blind walk in&#8221;, but always view review sites with a jaunted eye.  Several San Francisco businesses reported troubling incidents between the advertising sales staff of Yelp.com and what reviews they might \/ might not receive.   Many reports of the connection of advertising sales with reviews continue in San Jose at this <a href=\"http:\/\/www.mercurynews.com\/breakingnews\/ci_11943816?nclick_check=1\" rel=\"nofollow\">news link<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>We&#8217;ll be clear &#8211; accurate, real reviews are what make the Internet so valuable.  Whether the Yelp stories are true or not &#8211; it only emphasizes how important it is to separate editorial content and business sales operations for web publishers.<\/p>\n<!--CusAds0-->\n<div style=\"font-size: 0px; height: 0px; line-height: 0px; margin: 0; padding: 0; clear: both;\"><\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>News outlets report possible troubling patterns between Yelp reviews and Yelp advertising.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[57,58,59],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sftodo.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/86"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sftodo.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sftodo.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sftodo.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sftodo.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=86"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/sftodo.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/86\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":89,"href":"https:\/\/sftodo.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/86\/revisions\/89"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sftodo.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=86"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sftodo.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=86"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sftodo.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=86"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}