Comments on: Yahoo: It’s the Stars, Not the Reviews

By: Go Google Yourself | Website Promotion is Not Voodoo

Go Google Yourself | Website Promotion is Not Voodoo — Tue, 02 Jun 2009 05:00:51 +0000

[...] businesses for the next few years. There have been some great writings from friends of mine on the value of ratings and reviews for small business but I’m telling you right now, off the coasts this is a relatively unknown [...]

By: copywriter39

copywriter39 — Sat, 15 Mar 2008 22:31:53 +0000

In the original post there was a screenshot showing the top listing had no stars. Did the Yahoo rep have any explanation of this?

By: davidmihm

davidmihm — Tue, 04 Mar 2008 13:13:12 +0000

Aha, this makes a lot more sense. I was quite surprised to hear that Yahoo would go against the Local grain and not count review ratings.

But I imagine that not taking review text into account probably helps combat review spam to some extent…

By: Miriam

Miriam — Tue, 04 Mar 2008 06:57:38 +0000

Matt -
This has been quite the story. *The rep Greg spoke to said reviews count SOMETIMES in Yahoo Local.

I’m still turning that over in my mind.

Thanks for keeping us posted on this.
Miriam

By: SoloSEO

SoloSEO — Tue, 04 Mar 2008 05:47:44 +0000

I did think that was surprising that they wouldn’t give any weight to the reviews themselves, so this is comforting. Thanks for being the point man on clarifying it.