If You Can't Beat Them, Join Them

8 years ago

Yelp is already drunk on Google juice, they don't need yours. The only way to get your Yelp listing listed higher than, say, your competitor's Yelp listing is to get more good reviews. That's it.

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paulgl

8 years ago

Originally Posted by mix_daylee

Let's face it. I HATE yelp.

They rule the SERPs for local keywords.

So If I can't beat them, can I join them by sending some juice via high PR links to my client's Yelp listing?

Is this a good idea? I mean google loves anything yelp and if the listing can get more juice google should list it on page 1 right?

Why do you even have clients? For the heck of it?
Because there's a fool born every minute?
Because you can fool some of the people some of the time?

If yelp actually does rule whatever you are up to, man you
are in some serious trouble. Not as serious as your client,
though.

If he really has a local business, he should ditch you, sink the
money into *shock* advertising.

Now bump that.

Paul

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mix_daylee

8 years ago

Originally Posted by paulgl

Why do you even have clients? For the heck of it?
Because there's a fool born every minute?
Because you can fool some of the people some of the time?

If yelp actually does rule whatever you are up to, man you
are in some serious trouble. Not as serious as your client,
though.

If he really has a local business, he should ditch you, sink the
money into *shock* advertising.

Now bump that.

Paul

Wow Paul... I get it. You're a genius, therefore you don't suck.

But I digress, you probably swallow.

The truth is If I have my client ranking on page 1 with the #4 spot, and the first 2 spots belong to yelp...why not try to get my client's yelp listing there. Then he would have two spots on the SERPs. As a result, I could probably charge more (yes, you can thank me for the idea later).

So do me a favor, the next time you have the urge to jump to conclusions...

1. STOP
2. Take your keyboard and turn it sideways
3. Then shove up where the sun don't shine.

So yeah...Bump!

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SEO Power

8 years ago

Originally Posted by mix_daylee

Let's face it. I HATE yelp.

They rule the SERPs for local keywords.

So If I can't beat them, can I join them by sending some juice via high PR links to my client's Yelp listing?

Is this a good idea? I mean google loves anything yelp and if the listing can get more juice google should list it on page 1 right?

Taking advantage of a web property that Google loves has been an effective starategy for a while and continues to be, so I don't see any reason why this shouldn't work. That said, if you are asking this question, it means you are still learning and not quite capable of doing client SEO. Stop taking on SEO clients and focus on your own sites for now.

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mix_daylee

8 years ago

Originally Posted by SEO Power

Taking advantage of a web property that Google loves has been an effective starategy for a while and continues to be, so I don't see any reason why this shouldn't work. That said, if you are asking this question, it means you are still learning and not quite capable of doing client SEO. Stop taking on SEO clients and focus on your own sites for now.

My response to Paul probably applies to you as well.

Carry on.

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Icematikx

8 years ago

Originally Posted by mix_daylee

My response to Paul probably applies to you as well.

Carry on.

Truth is though, you're not genuinely going for two SERP results.

You can't beat YELP, and so you're looking to piggyback off their authority.

If you can't beat YELP's single page, then you shouldn't be doing SEO. I have a local client, and beat YELP with 2 PBN links. Not hard.

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nik0

Banned 8 years ago

Originally Posted by Icematikx

Truth is though, you're not genuinely going for two SERP results.

You can't beat YELP, and so you're looking to piggyback off their authority.

If you can't beat YELP's single page, then you shouldn't be doing SEO. I have a local client, and beat YELP with 2 PBN links. Not hard.

Not all Yelp listings are the same.