What is Yelp Duplicate Listing?
When a business is listed more than one time on Yelp. Its lisiting is considered as Duplicate Yelp listing.
Usually any business that want to grow their business online presence and increase customer reach, do their business listing on Yelp.
The main purpose of Yelp listing is to increase business leads/sales and to helping search engines to identify any local business and how to contact that business/ company.
There are near 35 countries which businesses are allowed to get registered on Yelp.
Can Duplicate Yelp Listing Affect SEO?
Yes. Duplicate listing creates ambguity about your business in the eyes of Yelp search engine. And it caueses difficulty for cutomers to find your business information on Yelp.
Secondly , Yelp algorithm is deigned as when it detects a duplicate business listing , it gives less priority to duplicate business listing than businesses that are registered once time.
Lastly, If your business both listings have different business attributes then it is not good for a company. In that results search engines don’t actually fully relate your business to the actual business.
When Duplicate Yelp Listing Created?
Duplicated yelp listing is created due to following reasons;
- Due to change in business information, owner creates another business listing
- Business owner creates double listing due to unawareness of already thier business listing
- Due to the less practical knowledge of a person that creates double listing in order to boost thier business listing visibility on Yelp
How to Fix Duplicate Yelp Listing?
Simply claim your actual business listing and keep up-to-date it. And Flag the duplicate listing of your business. Soon, it will be removed by Yelp team.