Creating a Yelp Account

December 21, 2024 • 5 min read

Why Yelp? Yelp is essentially the modern yellow-pages. With Millions of active users, reviews on Yelp can be the deal-breaker for whether or not someone chooses your business over your competition.

1. Head to https://business.yelp.com/ and select, “Manage my free listing”

2. Search for your business. If it comes up, select it and head to Step X. If you need to, add your business by typing the full name and select “Add to Yelp for free”

3. Enter in your Business Phone Number

4. Enter in your Website

5. Enter the Category of Business that you are

6. Enter in your business address

a. Indicate if you have multiple locations or not.

7. Yelp will then ask you to confirm via a phone call or text message

8. Once you’ve done that, you’ll be taken to your Yelp Account Page to finish out the finer details of your account!

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We also collect information about gift recipients so that we can fulfill the gift purchase. The information we collect about gift recipients is not used for marketing purposes.

Like many websites, we use "cookies" to enhance your experience and gather information about visitors and visits to our websites. Please refer to the "Do we use 'cookies'?" secti on below for information about cookies and how we use them.

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We may use the information we collect from you when you register, purchase products, enter a contest or promotion, respond to a survey or marketing communication, surf the website, or use certain other site features in the following ways:

To personalize your site experience and to allow us to deliver the type of content and product offerings in which you are most interested.
To allow us to better service you in responding to your customer service requests.
To quickly process your transactions.
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Do we use "cookies"?

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We may contract with third-party service providers to assist us in better understanding our site visitors. These service providers are not permitted to use the information collected on our be half except to help us conduct and improve our business.

You can choose to have your computer warn you each time a cookie is being sent, or you can choose to turn off all cookies. You do this through your browser (like Netscape Navigator or Internet Explorer) settings. Each browser is a little different, so look at your browser Help menu to learn the correct way to modify your cookies.

If you turn cookies off, you won't have access to many features that make your site experience more efficient and some of our services will not function properly. However, you can still place orders over the telephone by contacting customer service.

Do we disclose the information we collect to outside parties?

We do not sell, trade, or otherwise transfer to outside parties your personally identifiable information unless we provide you with advance notice, except as described below. The term "outside parties" does not include website hosting partners and o ther parties who assist us in operating our website, conducting our business, or servicing you, so long as those parties agree to keep this information confidential. We may also release your information when we believe release is appropriate to comply with the law, enforce our site policies, or protect ours or others' rights, property, or safety.

However, non-personally identifiable visitor information may be provided to other parties for marketing, advertising, or other uses.

How can you opt-out, remove or modify information you have provided to us?

To modify your e-mail subscriptions, please let us know by modifying your preferences in the "My Account" section. Please note that due to email production schedules you may receive any emails already in production.

To delete all of your online account information from our database, sign into the "My Account" section of our site and remove your shipping addresses, billing address es & payment information. Please note that we may maintain information about an individual sales transaction in order to service that transaction and for record keeping.

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