Keep your business listing up-to-date, which can improve your local SEO.Your online reviews - both positive reviews and negative reviews - will: Once you have a Google review link, you can use it in your social media outreach, email marketing and website to ask your current customers about their recent customer experience. Might make your site a little stickier, too.Want to know how to get Google reviews easily? The best way is to create a Google review link, also known as a short URL. If your Yelp page seems to be cannibalizing your site’s visibility, consider cannibalizing your Yelp reviews on your site by embedding them. Often Google seems split as to which one should rank higher: your site because presumably it’s the “home base” of your business, or your Yelp page because it’s got the juicy reviews on your business? More often than not Google puts your site above your Yelp page, but not always. Now, I’d say it’s not as much of a trade-off: you can use the embed feature to have your Yelp reviews look OK on your site, and still be confident that Google at least knows what’s in the reviews.Īnother upshot is that you might lessen the problem of your Yelp page outranking your site for certain brand-name search terms.
But copying and pasting is a hassle if you want the reviews to look good on your site, because you’ll have to style them a little. Why does any of that matter to your local SEO?įor one thing, copying and pasting your customers’ Yelp reviews onto your site long has been the best way to ensure that Google can access that relevant content (that you didn’t have to write!). That suggests there’s some truth to John Mueller’s characteristically brief and clear answer that, in effect, Google is more likely to index iframe content (like embedded Yelp reviews) when that content makes up a large chunk of the page.
The pages I looked at where Google doesn’t seem to have indexed the Yelp content also have proportionally more non-Yelp-review content. Proportionally, their content is pretty Yelp-heavy. On the other hand, on the pages I cited a minute ago, much of the content is in Yelp reviews. (And that’s always been the case on those pages.)īecause Google has gotten better at rendering iframe conent and Javascript in recent years, maybe it’s inevitable Google indexes more of that content than it used to (or was able to). On those two pages the only content with that phrase is in an embedded Yelp review. Google can access the content in Yelp reviews you embed on your site (via Yelp’s embed feature), despite the fact that those Yelp reviews are in iframes. Will Google always index the content in Yelp reviews? Jury’s out.
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