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Yelp is claimed to be heavily cited for local service-business recommendation queries in AI search, sometimes more than Google Business Profiles.

@@tjrobertson52 · asserts

If you're a local service business, you hate Yelp. That's what I've learned doing SEO for about 100 local service businesses. Yelp is the worst. A lot of businesses have written them off entirely. However, as all search becomes AI search, that's getting harder to do. That's because when someone goes to ChatGPT or even Google's AI mode and asks for a recom...

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AI cites Yelp for 39% of local search recommendations, and it's not your listing, it's the li...

@@tjrobertson52 · 2026-04-30

If you're a local service business, you hate Yelp. That's what I've learned doing SEO for about 100 local service businesses. Yelp is the worst. A lot of businesses have written them off entirely. However, as all search becomes AI search, that's getting harder to do. That's because when someone goes to ChatGPT or even Google's AI mode and asks for a recom...

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If you're a local service business, you hate Yelp. That's what I've learned doing SEO for about 100 local service businesses. Yelp is the worst. A lot of businesses have written them off entirely. However, as all search becomes AI search, that's getting harder to do. That's because when someone goes to ChatGPT or even Google's AI mode and asks for a recommendation for a local service business, Yelp is by far the most cited website. Google even cites it more than Google Business Profiles. Now, how often AI cites...
views you get, you will always be underneath the sponsored results. So if you want to show up at the top, you have to run ads on Yelp. Now, this won't put you at the top consistently unless you're spending a lot of money, but it will increase the chance that you show up at the top. I know you hate Yelp and you swore you'd never give them a dollar cause they're extortionists that hide all your positive reviews unless you pay them. I can't tell you whether or not it's a good idea to pay Yelp. I'm just here to prov...