Gutensite Blog Comments http://www.gutensite.com/common/rss2/?&channel=blog_comments Syndicated BLOG Comments from Gutensite. en-us Copyright 2013 Gutensite Sun, 19 May 2013 22:11:41 -0700 service@gutensite.com (Gutensite) Atif https://www.gutensite.com/3459017 Hi, I am also getting this issue when tryin to convrey my application from v2 to v3....i tried the soluion given by you...but no use....could you please suggest sumthing else to solve this issue.

 

Thanks

]]> Wed, 03 Apr 2013 13:23:36 -0700 https://www.gutensite.com/3459017 Atif Pozycjonowanie https://www.gutensite.com/3581890 Thanks for this informations. Greetings.

]]> Tue, 15 Jan 2013 05:36:08 -0800 https://www.gutensite.com/3581890 Pozycjonowanie Mr. Jeremy https://www.gutensite.com/3556067 well said sir... I have people coming to me all the time with all sorts of custome requests they want to their "free sites", but my hands are tied to becuase I can't get to the code, or everything is so messed up, I end up doing everything over again and it costs more to the client then if they just hired me to do it. I've always been very impressed with Gutensite and what they offer...

]]> Fri, 02 Nov 2012 16:00:19 -0700 https://www.gutensite.com/3556067 Mr. Jeremy Wordpress Website Design https://www.gutensite.com/3549169 Hi,

Duplicate content which appears on the Internet in more than one place URL is not good for SEO. As there are more than one piece of same content , it is difficult for search engines to decide which one is more relevant for a given search query.

]]> Fri, 02 Nov 2012 04:43:40 -0700 https://www.gutensite.com/3549169 Wordpress Website Design toffer https://www.gutensite.com/3459017 Hi, perhaps a bit too late but... If you 'cast to int' (I've used parseInt) the marker's width and height, the new canvas tiles draw correctly. Tetsed on ff & opera (the ones which gave me this bug).

]]> Thu, 20 Sep 2012 07:10:16 -0700 https://www.gutensite.com/3459017 toffer Christian https://www.gutensite.com/3359639 Yelp's been in a lot of hot water over their predatory "sales" practices. I've heard from a few different sources that they will push down positive reviews and highlight negative reviews in order to "incentivize" business owners to purchase their marketing services. This completely nullifies the spirit behind Yelp, which started out as a great resource for information. I can't tell you how many great restaurants I've found on there alone... that being said, if they continue strong-arming business owners into advertising with Yelp, they will quickly become the next MySpace or AOL - dead weight.

 

I am happy to hear that Gutensite's business is not dependent on online reviews and word of mouth is working so well!

]]> Wed, 02 Nov 2011 14:06:07 -0700 https://www.gutensite.com/3359639 Christian Frank https://www.gutensite.com/3359639 My and my wife own a salon in Austin. Our business some how ended up on yelp. We had great reviews and all. After few months we were contact my Yelp Rep Audrey who spacificaly told me that if I want to keep my reviews on top and put my business infront of local Austinites I will have to subscirbe to their $300 service. I tried to put her off and she kep calling, She even gave me her personal Cell phone number to call her when I make up my mind on the weekend.

After I started to ignore her calls we saw our reviews started to filter out, and only bad reviews were put in front. We then started to run special for our customer to and get customer feedback. 90% of our customer said they do not know what yelp is. We gave people gift card to review us on Google and City Search instead of Yelp. If all of us business owners start doing this I can assured yelp will be under water in no time. I am also writing a letter to the Attorney General office how yelp is affecting small businesses.

 

]]> Fri, 12 Aug 2011 13:24:27 -0700 https://www.gutensite.com/3359639 Frank Josh Meyer https://www.gutensite.com/3409863 This is a beautiful new feature that I know a lot of people will really enjoy.

]]> Thu, 16 Dec 2010 08:13:53 -0800 https://www.gutensite.com/3409863 Josh Meyer Silverado https://www.gutensite.com/3359639 They put "honest reviews" in the filters.

I had an account and wrote a few reviews, they were filtered so I stopped using it.

Forgot about first account, opened another. Started writing reviews....

Figured how to get around the filter. Put a picture in your profile, does not have to be you. Also write 10+ reviews, make sure at least a few are 5 stars. Much like CL, even if telling the truth, the flag nazi's will try to shut you down.

Posted on the threads, found people were petty and mean. Called me a "troll"-I made another account. Made up "funny" threads which offended the flaggits-wrote about Thads even though I had never been there. Had 70+ friends, all laughs, didn't think people were taking it serious. Got put in Talk Jail. (couldn't post in threads.)

My "serious" posts from the "serious" account got attacked by a maniac who would bend the truth to fit his political agenda. My comments and reviews got flagged. Got a message from the Yelp HQ that I had violated the TOS and my accounts were banned. hahahaha. They took down all the "free" content I gave 'em.

I guess it was against the rules to have more than 1 account......

Anyways I found out more about their devious ways of working by going against the grain than by following the rules.

Made another account and my IP address got banned-hahaha little good that did, first, ever hear of an anonymizer?

Second, I have a dynamic IP that changes every few days......

So, if you do use Yelp, realize that most of the reviews are sugar coated and the honst ones get filtered.

Now, if you must post and don't want to be filtered, as stated above, write 10+ reviews. Also have a pic on your profile. Avoid the talk threads-losers.


If you have multiple accounts, access them via an anonymizer or one only at a work location, another at home and the third at a different location or on your phone, don' criss cross.

These are the things THEY don't want you to know so cutt and paste, cutt and paste.

Pissing of one Yelp IT person at a time.





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]]> Mon, 06 Dec 2010 22:08:00 -0800 https://www.gutensite.com/3359639 Silverado Joshua Meyer https://www.gutensite.com/3398490 Opportunities are staring at us everyday.  We just have to look.  For example Henry Ford found a process for turning wood scraps from his production of the Model T's into charcoal briquets.  He built a charcoal plant and Ford Charcoal was created (later renamed Kingsford Charcoal).  Today, Kingsford is still the leasing manufacturer of charcoal in America.  :)

]]> Tue, 21 Sep 2010 13:50:33 -0700 https://www.gutensite.com/3398490 Joshua Meyer CR https://www.gutensite.com/3359639 Fellow business owner here.  We recently had a total nutter of a client write a horrible review of us on Yelp.  Most of it was total lies, I could back up with proof from our lawyers and past correspondence.  She only wrote a single ranting review, has no profile pick, info, Yelp friends, no other reviews, etc.  So according to Yelp this should be caught in the filter, right?  Nope.

The very next day Yelp calls to get us to advertise.  Literally a day after our five star rating was tarnished.  We said, "Thanks but no thanks" (hi, it's insanely unaffordable for a small business), low and behold, her SINGLE review remains unfitlerd, while other reviews by reviewers who should have "Yelp cred" get filtered.  She has since never reviewed another business, never made a Yelp "friend," and is one of the reviews that SHOULD, by YELP's own terms, be filtered.  And when you talk to Yelp, "We have no human powers over the filter, it's all an alogorythm."  Sure it is.  If it was an algorythm her ranting email would have been removed weeks ago, and you wouldn't be houdning me to advertise a day after our 5-star reputation was tarnished by a single, crazy ex-client.  The only good news is that I've been told by multiple people that she actually sounds bona fide crazy in her review of us.  We have 11 five star reviews, one 1 star (her).  Thanks Yelp! 

]]> Mon, 19 Jul 2010 12:05:31 -0700 https://www.gutensite.com/3359639 CR New Yelper and Grumpy https://www.gutensite.com/3359639 In the past week I discovered Yelp and enthusiastically posted 14 reviews. I was so pleased that as a consumer, I finally had a place to give proper credit or criticism to businesses. Of those reviews over 50% of them were filtered and suppressed within hours of posting them.  Little did I know my independent reviews posted in earnest with no ties to any business whatsoever were considered suspect by the mysterious Yelp algorithms. When questioned, Yelp offers no answer other than the typical "we appreciated your input" crap.

Additionally I noticed a new Yelper and perused her account out of curiosity.  Out her 17 reviews, a whopping TEN had been suppressed & filtered from view.

As a consumer, a user, & a contributor, this type of excessive suppression of honest reviews really makes me wonder what the flying Fark is Yelp doing?

So, what really is Yelp doing?  A dopey patronizing video aimed at their perceived knucklehead users is insulting and leaves more questions than it answers.

Additionally Yelp gives it's users the illusion that one's reviews are all visible as they always remain from the users vantage point.  I wonder how many contributors would continue to help Yelp by writing free reviews knowing that a large percentage of their contributions are suppressed.

]]> Wed, 02 Jun 2010 15:45:08 -0700 https://www.gutensite.com/3359639 New Yelper and Grumpy Josh Meyer https://www.gutensite.com/3381604 Good article Chad.  And it's definitely not the easy route to take, but I do believe that it's right route.  Good stuff.

]]> Tue, 25 May 2010 11:22:14 -0700 https://www.gutensite.com/3381604 Josh Meyer Chadwick Meyer https://www.gutensite.com/3359639 UPDATE. Pam at Yelp has confirmed that Yelp only values reviews from "established" accounts, "...there's nothing further I can say (or do) about the automated system. If all reviews on your listing are suppressed, that simply means the reviewers were all found to be not established enough." Which is of course  true, people that review our business will most likely not be active "Yelpers", since they are generally business men and women busy running their companies.

It is as we suspected, Yelp filters promote a biased review system, which promotes reviews from members of an internet subculture. They do not accurately reflect the majority of a business' customers, or even a majority of the people who actually left a review on Yelp.

]]> Tue, 09 Feb 2010 17:48:39 -0800 https://www.gutensite.com/3359639 Chadwick Meyer Chadwick Meyer https://www.gutensite.com/3359639 Lots of other complaints about this same thing:

http://www.yelp.com/topic/san-francisco-disappearing-reviews-2

Interestingly, some people complain that the negative reviews are being deleted, and they claim the business has some special powers to suppress bad reviews. But as a business owner, I don't believe that's true. We have no special powers.

I think the accurate assessment is that Yelp is just a broken piece of technology. Terribly broken filtering engine that is going to destroy their user confidence if they don't get it fixed ASAP. Thousands of people are complaining that their reviews are being deleted. That's just insane, and those people won't write reviews anymore if their time is wasted.

 

]]> Thu, 04 Feb 2010 23:28:47 -0800 https://www.gutensite.com/3359639 Chadwick Meyer Will Klopp https://www.gutensite.com/3354405 A lot of the features you are incorporating make a lot of sense.  I like the ease of the drag and drop reordering and the slideshow functionality would be great too.  My current site www.morganhillhomes.com , I may contact you about how to incorporate ideas and how things work.

]]> Mon, 01 Feb 2010 16:45:16 -0800 https://www.gutensite.com/3354405 Will Klopp Chadwick Meyer https://www.gutensite.com/3354405 @David Agreed!

]]> Fri, 08 Jan 2010 09:23:48 -0800 https://www.gutensite.com/3354405 Chadwick Meyer D. Ridenhour https://www.gutensite.com/3354405 The uploader looks great, thanks guys very much for your hard work!  And we are certainly looking forward to when you are able to get this tool implemented on the main library... though we will probably not need it for multiple file uploads, it will certainly be nice to have a progress bar and a cancel button.  Thanks!

]]> Thu, 07 Jan 2010 19:08:16 -0800 https://www.gutensite.com/3354405 D. Ridenhour Josh Meyer https://www.gutensite.com/3351199 As simple as this upgrade sounds it is an incredible gift to the CMS, and is really going to help a lot of people.  Thanks gutensite!

]]> Fri, 18 Dec 2009 13:17:11 -0800 https://www.gutensite.com/3351199 Josh Meyer Chadwick Meyer https://www.gutensite.com/3339243 @David. Yes. Thank goodness. This will be implemented for Documents and Multimedia (video/audio). It will be sweet. In fact we'll also find a way to improve all the "multiple select" fields that currently use that very clumsy dual select containers...

]]> Fri, 18 Sep 2009 15:02:10 -0700 https://www.gutensite.com/3339243 Chadwick Meyer David https://www.gutensite.com/3339243 Does this mean that we will soon be seeing the same implementation coming to the audio uploader as well?  Please oh please?

]]> Fri, 18 Sep 2009 14:58:50 -0700 https://www.gutensite.com/3339243 David Site Tool https://www.gutensite.com/3333611 Wow, I never knew that new real estate property page design. That's pretty interesting… ]]> Fri, 04 Sep 2009 04:49:13 -0700 https://www.gutensite.com/3333611 Site Tool Joshua Meyer https://www.gutensite.com/3326870 That is great!  

]]> Tue, 07 Jul 2009 10:51:36 -0700 https://www.gutensite.com/3326870 Joshua Meyer