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Before contacting a customer, check out their other reviews. If they write nasty reviews about other businesses, too, do not contact them. They are just a nasty person, and they will publicly post your comment against you. If they write mostly positive reviews, you can consider contacting...

The primary problem is that if Yelp sees a pattern, they will remove all your reviews that follow that pattern, and all of your customers could demand refunds.

Use different methods. If Yelp sees multiple reviews following a pattern, it will remove all your suspicious reviews.

Having a local phone number (with your local area code) on your home page helps with Google Places. It is one of the ways Google favors local businesses for local searches.

Links from anywhere are good as long as they are legitimate sites. A high PR international site will do you much better than a local site with low PR.

Be careful about buying reviews, mostly for practical reasons. Anybody who posts them for $1 each will likely just end up getting filtered by Yelp.

Google cares a lot about the Yahoo Directory. If you can get the Yahoo Directory (which is $300 a year) to post his business, that would help. But with Yahoo Directory, you have to pay first, and you don't get your money back if Yahoo decides not to list it.

Create a category with the exact phrase you want to come up for. Also, include that phrase in some of your reviews.

Yelp also looks for keywords in your reviews. So if you get reviews containing the keywords you are SEO'ing for, your ranking will move up in Yelp when people search those keywords.

Yelp filters FIVERR reviews, so be careful about using FIVERR for this. It comes up first when you search Google for buying Yelp reviews, so it is too well known for Yelp to miss.

Most "experts" don't know what they were doing. When testing things with Yelp, try out posting positive things with another company's listing first, so you can see what sticks and what does not. Always wait a few weeks, as Yelp waits before deleting posts.

Also, check the terms of service of the site on which the review is posted. Sometimes you can get the review removed by the site if you can find a violation of the terms of service. For example, if the poster says their review is not firsthand experience but rather something somebody told...

I have an aged Yelp account that does not get filtered, and I will trade reviews with you if you have a Yelp Elite account or an aged Yelp account that does not get filtered. Please do not reply if you have a fairly new Yelp account. If you have a fairly new Yelp account, Yelp will just filter...

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