Great news! I run a local service company and stopped advertising with Yelp several months ago. No transparency how clicks go to $12 when they used to be $5. That's not even a click to your site, just your Yelp profile still on their site!

On top of it, my 5 star reviews keep getting filtered, even ones that have shown for months. Meanwhile two recent 1-star reviews we got with people from brand new accounts still show just fine.

GOOD RIDDANCE, hope they go BK. They deserve it.

I spoke to them for insurance clicks and it was around $25-30 a click. Might as well just buy Google PPC ads for the same amount and get more value.

Does Homeaway (public company) have to worry about these ordinances as well?

Corey Rudl

On some searches now Google barely displays and real results at all. The map results are gone, adwords are gone and now they show Local Services at the top requesting quotes.

For example: Plumbers in San Francisco

The top result is Yelp, and there's even a widget that lets you search for a plumber that's been certified. What results would you prefer to see at the top instead?

Are we sure that this is not influenced by Google's search result personalization?

Do you get something different?

Possibly because of this http://mobile.nytimes.com/2016/01/31/business/fake-online-lo...

When people move and sell furniture, they often times need a cleaning to satisfy a condition of selling a home or getting their full security deposit back. Only synergy I really see and anything old is stale. Probably very cheap list.

$90 for the lead, not what it is worth overall. They're not closing 100% and the leads may be shared down the pingtree or as they age.

So are they up to like 600 or 1200 users now?

I'd appreciate if they let me unsubscribe from their damn emails on a catch all account where I get a former employee's emails. They make you log-in to opt out and I'm not about to reset the guy's password in case he still uses linkedin.

They don't make you log in. Use this form [1] and they'll blacklist your email address system-wide [2]. Be sure to include any spelling variations (e.g. an optional dot) that may be in your contacts' address books:

  Please add my email addresses to the Do Not Contact List:
  
  andrew@example.com
  and.rew@example.com
  throwaway@example.com
  
  Thank you,
  
  Andrew

I did this in April and haven't since received anything but a confirmation from their customer support.

[1]: https://help.linkedin.com/app/ask/path/dnca

[2]: https://help.linkedin.com/app/answers/detail/a_id/426/

No multivariate testing and have to use 2 different pages now. Really miss GWO, very easy multi-variate testing, simple, FREE. Not real time was the only downside.

You can have Experiments running on client side (JS) without redirect to different versions of the page, but setup process is... strange to say the least - https://developers.google.com/analytics/solutions/experiment...

Still, after setting it up it worked just fine for us.

Also, I have yet to figure out how to run multiple experiments on the same page (rather than multivariate single experiments). Usually frowned on, but when you're testing a new search box site-wide and different CTA buttons, they're discrete tests.

Side note: I went to high school with Phil (article author) - he is a smart guy.