{"id":972,"date":"2013-09-08T08:12:43","date_gmt":"2013-09-08T08:12:43","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/surgerytoday.com\/education\/?p=972"},"modified":"2013-09-08T08:15:40","modified_gmt":"2013-09-08T08:15:40","slug":"yelp-filtered-review-secret-maybe","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/surgerytoday.com\/education\/yelp-filtered-review-secret-maybe\/","title":{"rendered":"Yelp Filtered Review Secret – Maybe?"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Help for Yelp Filtered Reviews<\/h1>\n

I just got started looking at Yelp about 2 weeks ago. \u00a0It got my attention because all of a sudden it started appearing on Google searches for the term “Botox Modesto” or “Modesto Botox<\/a>“. \u00a0Then I searched other cities such as San Francisco – “San Francisco Botox” and the Yelp search comes up pretty much first. \u00a0What is this about? \u00a0Yelp is taking over the world I suppose. \u00a0So, I decided to consider taking it seriously. \u00a0I saw that I already had about 2-3 reviews, and some filtered reviews. \u00a0So, I decided to try to read about some of the filtered reviews and get people to write reviews to see what got filtered. \u00a0I even tried to write my own Yelp review<\/a> – at least I wrote it with my name (Calvin L.<\/a>) – didn’t do one of those undercover things and change my name. \u00a0Apparently you get filtered if you write your own review – fine – I understand the reasoning.<\/p>\n

What I’ve read online about avoiding Yelp filtered reviews<\/h3>\n

So I looked at the characteristics of what got “filtered” by Yelp. \u00a0I think what others were saying were true:<\/p>\n

Red flags that might get you filtered on Yelp:<\/strong><\/p>\n