If you are wondering if business review sites are having an impact on your business take a look at the most recent unique user visits to top online business review search engines. Data pulled from Compete.com
| Review Search Engine(Web address) | Type of Review Engine(Thanks Wikipedia!) | Highest Number of Unique Visitors in 2011 According to Compete.com http://www.compete.com/us/ |
| YellowPages.com | YELLOWPAGES.com is an Internet web site operated by AT&T Interactive, a wholly owned subsidiary of AT&T.[1]. | 31,462,073 |
| Yelp.com | Yelp, Inc. is a company that operates yelp.com, a social networking, user review, and local search web site. Yelp.com has more than 54 million monthly unique visitors as of late 2010.[3][4] | 19,187,629 |
| TripAdvisor.com | TripAdvisor.com is a travel website that assists customers in gathering travel information, posting reviews and opinions of travel-related content and engaging in interactive travel forums.TripAdvisor is an early user of user-generated content. The website services are free to users, who provide most of the content, and the website is supported by an advertising business model.[ | 17,315,568 |
| CitySearch | Citysearch is an online city guide that provides information about businesses in the categories of dining, entertainment, retail, travel, and professional services in cities throughout the United States. Visitors to each of Citysearch's local city guides will find contact information, maps, driving directions, editorial, and user reviews for the businesses listed. | 12,255,113 |
| Healthgrades.com | HealthGrades Inc. is a U.S. company that develops and markets quality and safety ratings of health care providers, including hospitals, nursing homes, physicians and dentists. Quality ratings are devised from publicly available patient safety data and analyzed with proprietary technology developed by HealthGrades | 5,233,422 |
| Angies List.com | Angie’s List is a website that aggregates verified consumer reviews of service companies as a way to "capture word-of-mouth wisdom".[4] Angie’s List has about 1.5 million subscribers throughout the United States and Canada who post an average of about 40,000 reviews each month | 2,855,154 |
| Avvo.com | Avvo.com is an expert-only Q&A forum where people can ask legal and health questions of lawyers and doctors, for free.[1] The Q&A forum is backed by an online directory of doctors and lawyers licensed in the United States. Avvo provides listings to which doctors and attorneys can submit their own profiles and histories. The listings may also include patient and client reviews, disciplinary actions, and peer endorsements | 1,150,989 |
Now you know the facts. It’s more critical than ever to know what is being said about you within major review engines such as Yelp.com, Yahoo Local, and Google Maps. In most cases these reviews are appearing higher in the search engines than your own web site when consumers are searching for your business, product or service. We have developed a proprietary solution that reviews and collects data that is posted within top review sites such as Yelp.com, Yahoo Local, Google Maps, and City Search. We’ve created a service that, not only, monitors the top review search engines but also monitors and collects data from industry specific sites such as RateMd.com, UrbanSpoon, and more. Interactive Imprint is designed to automatically search the top review sites once you create your account you can set up numerous other industry specific review engines as needed to suite your business needs.
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January 2, 2012
Interactive Marketing, Social Media