Yelp SEO

Can Duplicate Yelp Listings Affect SEO and Local Rankings?

  February 27, 2026
  Category :     Yelp SEO
  Philip O'Hara
A business owner logs into their Yelp account and discovers something unsettling: there are three separate Yelp listings for their restaurant, each with different review scores, photos, and business information. The confusion is immediate—which one do customers see? How does Google treat these duplicates? Most importantly, are these duplicate Yelp listings tanking their search rankings? This scenario plays out for...

Yelp SEO Best Practices to Get More Calls and Leads

  February 9, 2026
  Category :     Yelp SEO
  Philip O'Hara
For local service providers, Yelp is often the first "search engine" a customer uses before they even touch Google. In fact, Yelp’s influence is so pervasive that 97% of people purchase from a business they found on Yelp within a week. This makes Yelp SEO—the practice of optimizing your business profile to rank higher in Yelp’s internal search results—a critical...