Completely frustrated with Google and Yelp (RANT!)

[Thomas Dekany]

With the type of quality work that you produce day in and day out, why would anyone be not 100% happy with your detail?

Same thing happened to me, it gets worse as anyone can put up complete outright lies. My account was deleted also about this time, if yelp was fair they would have a place where customers could see a retort for bad reviews if they are bogus from the reviewed business owner or management.......................I had a guy give me a bad one and told me in ADVANCE he was going to lie his *** off.



Thank goodness most people can read between the lines, and when they meet me in person things are put in perspective.

 

[MX823]

Rich - What might be happening is that a provider of information further up the chain maybe might be overwriting your corrections. Here is the feeder system for address providers. http://getlisted.org/resources/primary_data_providers.jpg



The site List Your Business on Google and Other Local Search Engines & More | GetListed.org can also help you with getting your information correct across the web.



I know in dealing with some of the directory style sites I have faced challenges in getting listings corrected, some of the providers want you to pay for your listing and own it before it will display the correct info.



Good Luck.

 

[jay-d]

With regards to the changes you're trying to make to your accounts, have you tried clearing your cookies, cache, and/or history first? If not, try that, then make the changes and see if that works.



As far as Google taking 4 days to review an ad, that is just crazy talk. Delete that campaign and start a new one. It's detailing for crying out loud, not make money online. Your ads should be approved instantly.



Have you tried BingAds? (formerly Microsoft AdCenter). You can reach Yahoo and Bing search engine users. Not as much traffic, but there is traffic and they convert just as good as Google search engine users. Maybe better.



Also, with directories, there's a site called http://Manta.com you can put your site on. Gets great search engine rankings and is a solid directory. At least in my area (NY), but I'm sure they are good everywhere.



And I'm sure there are a bunch of directories like them. May as well put your business on as many as you can.