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Daniel, have you set up a business owners account over at Yelp? https://biz.yelp.com/.  You should be able to claim all your rooftops using that single login.  If they are already claimed, you can contact their support which isn't fast but it is free and go through the hoops of getting access to an already verified account.

There are a lot of people very unhappy with the filtering and rightfully so.  I believe that Yelp has an incentive to not mess with the filtering for two reasons:

1. They got spanked a few years ago when their sales people were promising better rankings in exchange for paying for ad packages
2. They need to keep it honest because once people know the fix is in, their business is dead.  It's the same reason casinos don't cheat.

Is there Yelp manipulation going on outside of Yelp?  Yes.  I've seen it first hand.  My most recent article is about review site manipulation: Increase Yelp Ratings The Black Hat Way - Snake Oil Social Media