Founded in 2004, Yelp has become one of the biggest directories of local businesses that include restaurants, auto and home services. Yelp is a free service — both for consumers and businesses — which makes money by selling ad spaces on the platform’s app and websites to local businesses. These ads are labelled ‘Yelp Ads’ to distinguish them from the rest of the business listings.
As of Q2 2019, Yelp boasts of a combined 176 million unique users on its mobile app, mobile web and desktop website.
If you’re new to Yelp and wish to help the community by reviewing a place that you just visited, here we’ve put together a simple guide to help you understand how to leave a Yelp review and add photos to that review via the smartphone app and website.
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How to add a Yelp review alongwith a photo?
Yelp currently boasts of 192 million reviews written by its users, as of Q2 2019, and if you’re looking to add to their reviews, below is how you can do that.
Write a Yelp review on the website
Go to the business’ page where you wish to leave the review and follow the steps below.
Step 1: Click on Start your review of (business’ name) or the grey stars to start by giving a rating.Step 2: On the next page, give the business a rating (if you haven’t already), then write a review in the text box below it. You’ll also see an Upload option below the text box, click on it to upload an image from your device. Then click on Post Review.
Write a Yelp review via the app
Go to the business’ page where you wish to leave the review and follow the steps below.
- Tap on Start a review. You can also give the rating in this step or the following one.
- On the next page, tap on the star rating (if you haven’t already) and then tap on the space below it to start writing your review.
- Once you’re done writing the Yelp review, tap on the camera icon in the toolbar at the bottom (above your keyboard). Then tap on Attach Photos. On the next page, either click on Take Photo to click an image from your camera there and then and upload it or Select from library to upload the image from your photo library.
- Once you’re done with the above steps, tap on Post Review.
You’ll now be able to see the review on the business’ page as well as your profile page under Reviews.
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