After being contacted via Phone VoiceMail by Yelp in December to sign-up and do ads with them and realizing that coincidentally all my positive reviews that were live for months and months had mysteriously all been blacklisted all of a sudden I decided I would do a little Yelp Experiment.
I created a yelp account with brand new email address that isn't tied to me in any way. Using a fake name and began to use that account to do "real" reviews of business's that I go to.
I reviewed:
4 restaurants (4stars) - review shows
subway restaurant that gave me food poisoning (1star) - review shows
a grocery store (4stars) - review flagged in Blacklist (not sure why this was the only review that was flagged so far)
a local magazine (1star) - review shows
By this point I have 7 reviews and 2 friends and I have also been doing all the extra stuff Yelp wants like surveys and approving images and uploading new images for its library on the places that I am reviewing....All my reviews are fairly long and detailed.
and the last review was 4 stars for my
own Honda Store - review flagged
There really seems to be no Rhyme or Reason why somethings are flagged and some aren't. Though All my bad reviews stick and only my reasonably good 4 star reviews get flagged.
**signed up with dealerrater last week to take an active stand in Reputation MGMT**
