Managing Reviews
Written for people first, and structured so the AI engines that now answer these questions describe you accurately.
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Yelp is ranking above our own site for our restaurant brand. Can this be changed?
Yelp outranking your own site for your restaurant's brand name is common and rarely a crisis. Yelp's pages are built to rank for local business names. Manage it rather than fight it: strengthen the corporate site's authority and fully optimize the Google Business Profile so you own the Map pack and Knowledge Panel that appear next to Yelp.
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How do you handle a sudden spike in negative reviews?
Find the trigger first - a spike usually traces back to one cause - then split the work three ways: respond professionally to the substantive complaints, report reviews that violate platform policy, and bring in authentic positive reviews to rebalance the recent set.
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How do you handle reviews that contain false or defamatory information?
Report them through the platform's false-content process, escalate legally only where the statements are false assertions of fact (not opinion) with demonstrable harm and an attributable source, and post a factual response that corrects the record without repeating or amplifying the claim. The discipline is to correct without confirming.
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G2 is showing a 2.1 rating for us when enterprise buyers search. How serious is this?
Serious. A 2.1 on G2 is a real signal to enterprise buyers and to the AI engines that summarize software, because G2 ranks for category and comparison queries and gets ingested when models answer 'best tools for X.' The fix is genuine product and operations work plus a structured, customer-success-driven review program.
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How does review velocity affect your search reputation?
Review velocity, the steadiness and recency of incoming reviews, is its own signal, separate from the star rating. A steady stream of recent reviews tells Google's local algorithm and the AI engines that a business is active and current, and dilutes the weight of any single negative, so consistent flow beats occasional bursts.
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