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Tutorial: Monitor Yelp Reviews on Your iGoogle Page

  • August 6, 2010
  • by Gradiva Couzin

Editor’s Note:  This capability no longer exists. Yelp has removed the RSS feeds feature for business pages.  Please visit Yelp API page for other ways you can use Yelp. 

Here’s an easy, free way to monitor your business reputation online.

If you have a business, surely you want to know what people are saying about it online.  But staying abreast of all of the forum posts, customer reviews, or blog discussions that mention your business can be overwhelming.  We recommend consolidating all of this info onto an iGoogle page.  Why iGoogle?  Simply because this is already the homepage for so many people.

Here are step by step instructions for adding a feed to your iGoogle page:

1: Create a Google Account

Instructions can be found here.

2: Choose a feed page

Different businesses will need to monitor different venues.  A restaurant should probably be watching reviews on Yelp or Chowhound, while a hotel will monitor Tripadvisor and a software firm may watch conversations in relevant forums.  Let’s suppose your business is  Fuel City Tacos, in Dallas TX.  A search for your business name on Google shows reviews on Yelp, Urbanspoon, and Chowhound, as seen here:

Let’s choose Yelp for today’s tutorial.

2: Sign up for the Feed

With your company’s reviews page open in the browser, Look for the RSS feed icon next to the address bar where the page URL is displayed.  In Firefox, the icon looks like this:

Click on the feed icon and open the feed URL in a new window.  Select “Subscribe to this feed using Google”

Finally, select, “Add to Google Homepage”

3: Enjoy Your Feed on your iGoogle Homepage

Here’s how the Fuel City Yelp feed looks:

Keeping an eye on your reviews is a big first step in the important ongoing task of monitoring and managing your business’s online word of mouth presence.   We hope you’ve found this tutorial helpful!

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4 COMMENTS
  • Rachel Howe
    February 22, 2011 at 10:03 pm

    I like your post. It’s very informative. I was just about to write a post on my blog about Yelp reviews. I noticed a lot of people ending up on my website by looking for help with Yelp and social media monitoring.

  • Eugene Gonzales
    February 29, 2012 at 6:42 pm

    this is outdated information RSS feed is not visible

    1. Gradiva Couzin
      March 15, 2012 at 10:01 am

      Thanks, Eugene, we have made a note of it.

      Gradiva

  • - Hi5 Publicity
    March 15, 2012 at 9:40 am

    […] these sites can be time-consuming. And if you outsource it, the price tag can be high. Check out this blog for tips using iGoogle to help you monitor what people are […]

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