{"id":22369,"date":"2021-05-23T10:07:21","date_gmt":"2021-05-23T14:07:21","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blumenthals.com\/blog\/?p=22369"},"modified":"2021-06-10T14:25:15","modified_gmt":"2021-06-10T18:25:15","slug":"mike-b-around-the-web-i-look-at-yelp-and-more","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blumenthals.com\/blog\/2021\/05\/23\/mike-b-around-the-web-i-look-at-yelp-and-more\/","title":{"rendered":"Mike B: Around the Web, I Look at Yelp and More"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Every week I look forward to my work at LocalU and Near Media. Be sure to catch the article on Yelp. As a reminder, the FeedBurner email feed of my posts is going away soon. If you want to follow my writing subscribe to the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nearmedia.co\/google-expands-restaurant-pickup-integration\/#subscribe\">Near Media Newsletter<\/a> where I am joining David Mihm and Greg Sterling for a strategic look at local.<\/p>\n<p>Articles:<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.nearmedia.co\/the-competitive-world-of-hospitality-reviews\/\">What Happened to Yelp: A Hospitality Reviews Case Study<\/a><\/p>\n<p class=\"post-full-custom-excerpt\">Did Yelp get pushed or did they jump? Google critics argue the company&#8217;s search monopoly harmed Yelp. In this case study of a hospitality facility I take a closer look that reveals a more complex story with missed opportunities and many competitors for Yelp.<\/p>\n<p>Podcasts<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.nearmedia.co\/the-near-memo-episode-16\/\">The Near Memo #16<\/a> &#8211; Yelp, Google I\/O: they flex their AI muscles and move further into local products with the Shopping Graph; Google going into Retail, really?<\/p>\n<p>Available on <a href=\"https:\/\/podcasts.apple.com\/us\/podcast\/near-memo\/id1553296558\">Apple<\/a>\u00a0&amp;\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/podcasts.google.com\/feed\/aHR0cHM6Ly9mZWVkcy5idXp6c3Byb3V0LmNvbS8xNjcyMjUyLnJzcw==\">Google Podcasts<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Video<\/p>\n<p>Near Media:<br \/>\nPart 1 Video: (7:12) <a href=\"https:\/\/youtu.be\/EMr0YkLcKz8\">Are Yelp\u2019s problems self-inflicted? <\/a><br \/>\nPart 2 Video (8:32): <a href=\"https:\/\/youtu.be\/PCdBn0sedxo\">Google I\/O AI &amp; Local Shopping<\/a><br \/>\nPart 3 Video (17:15): <a href=\"https:\/\/youtu.be\/1JVe-ZGDliE\">Google going into Retail, really?<\/a><\/p>\n<p>LocalU<br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/localu.org\/video-last-week-in-local-for-week-ending-may-17-2021\/\">Video: Last Week in Local for Week Ending May 17, 2021<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Mary, Carrie and I discuss the return of the 10-pack, google\u2019s technical SEO discovery chops, common service area business GMB mistakes, great service business optimization tactics, and more.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Every week I look forward to my work at LocalU and Near Media. Be sure to catch the article on Yelp. As a reminder, the FeedBurner email feed of my posts is going away soon. If you want to follow my writing subscribe to the Near Media Newsletter where I am joining David Mihm and &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":262,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-22369","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blumenthals.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22369","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blumenthals.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blumenthals.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blumenthals.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/262"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blumenthals.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=22369"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/blumenthals.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22369\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":22372,"href":"https:\/\/blumenthals.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22369\/revisions\/22372"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blumenthals.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=22369"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blumenthals.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=22369"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blumenthals.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=22369"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}