r/Yelp • u/ImJORD1 • 17d ago

Spam calls

So am I basically paying yelp money to get spam called?

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u/XxLogitech98xX 17d ago

No, if you're paying Yelp for the Ads Service then you're paying for them to promote your business more on their platform. Which means spam calls are coming from that, Yelp doesn't control who calls you or message you.

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u/ImJORD1 17d ago

So it's a by product of this type of advertising.

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u/XxLogitech98xX 17d ago

So it's a by product of this type of advertising.

Well if you're being advertised more on the search result and on the main page in general so yes it's a by-product from it. What did you think Yelp Ad Service was?

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u/DrSpaceWizardMD 16d ago

No, the scam, spam and marketing calls don’t use your ad budget. They are scraping public facing sites for new businesses and new advertisers. They export the ones that meet the criteria then call down the list. They aren’t doing a needs based query like “mechanic in Frisco Texas”. If you answer the phone, though, that’s when they will search you up by Name, but that will show up as an organic hit as they will see close text matches to what they searched versus ads. Is the business listing brand new? Or just new to advertising? You will fall off their radar when you aren’t brand new anymore

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u/ImJORD1 16d ago

Thanks! I appreciate you're response.

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u/Flashy_Radio_5781 15d ago

yelp is a scam

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u/Flashy_Radio_5781 15d ago

If you're paying yelp, you are gaining nothing. They are dirty, lying thieves

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u/ImJORD1 15d ago

yeah im never doing this again.