How to Report Duplicate Business Listings in the Yelp Database

Step-by-Step Guide

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   Step 1: Visit and login to the Yelp website in your web browser.

   On top of keeping your reputation honest in highly successful merges, Yelp requires you to have an account to send them duplicate request submissions.
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   Step 2: Run a search for the page containing the two duplicate businesses.

   Yelp will only allow for duplicates if both businesses have exactly the same address
   - even if one is incorrect by postal standards, they have to have the same address to be submitted.
   
   If you try to "challenge the system" if the two have different addresses and try to ask for an address change before, this can cause for your changes to be reversed and your duplicate report to be denied. , Use the Copy Link URL or similar feature from your right click context menu when you right click the duplicate link.
   
   If the one listing has no reviews and the other has a review or two (or many), copy the link that has no reviews onto the clipboard and use that later on instead. , Click the business's link address. , This page is the new location of a tool that will allow you to submit a report of duplicate profile pages. ,, Use the Ctrl+V or ⌘ Cmd+V shortcuts to paste the content you earlier clipped. , It can take about 48-96 hours to process but most suggestions will be accepted.
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   Step 3: Mark down the exact URL link of the potential duplicate page.

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   Step 4: Visit the other listing of the potential duplicate.

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   Step 5: Click the "Edit business info" link which should be on the right side of the business' profile page.

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   Step 6: Scroll down and click the checkbox for "This is a duplicate of another business on Yelp" which should most of the way towards the bottom of the page.

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   Step 7: Write in the "Please provide additional context to help us verify this change" the words "Reporting that this listing is a duplicate of (provide the link you earlier copied to the clipboard)".

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   Step 8: Click the "Submit changes" button and wait for the email saying the duplicate submissions have been successful and that the new profile page has been adjusted to meet the requirements of the site.

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