How to plan and prepare Yelp posts with Sheevook
Yelp has no organic feed post for most businesses. What you write is your business page's own text ('From the business', specialties, history). Never ask for reviews. You paste it by hand. Sheevook turns one approved idea into a Yelp-native post that follows its rules, schedules it and measures what it drove.
Sheevook prepares your Yelp content and plans the post. Auto-publishing is not live, so you post the draft yourself.
Is Yelp worth your time?
Worth it for a local business that customers look up before they call: home services, restaurants, salons, repairs. Yelp is where they compare you, so the text on your page matters more than any post.
Yelp at a glance
- Our length cap (no published limit)
- 1,000 (sweet spot 200-700)
- Hashtags
- None. They read as spam here
- Best times
- No posting schedule: profile text is read when a customer compares businesses, not in a feed.
- Links
- Tagged links are kept in the copy so a click is attributed back to this platform.
On Yelp the writing is your business page, not a feed
Most businesses have no organic feed post on Yelp. What an owner writes is the text of the business page itself: the 'From the business' description, specialties and history. Customers read it while they compare you with two other businesses, so it wins on plain, specific facts about what you do and where.
Yelp Connect and other Yelp promotion are sold through Yelp Ads, a paid product, so Sheevook does not model them as organic posts. Yelp's own help pages answered our research with errors on the day this was written, so character limits for each field are unverified: check the field's counter before you paste.
Reviews carry the trust on Yelp, and Yelp's guidelines tell businesses not to ask customers for them. Rewarding a review is also prohibited by the FTC Consumer Reviews and Testimonials Rule. Sheevook never drafts a request for a review, and it warns when a draft contains one.
What gets a Yelp post buried
Asking customers for reviews
Yelp's guidelines tell businesses not to ask for reviews, in any wording. A request, even a polite one, is the thing to leave out of your page text and your posts.
Offering something for a review
A discount, gift card or entry in exchange for a review is prohibited by the FTC Consumer Reviews and Testimonials Rule, and it undermines the reviews you already have.
Filling the text with links and keywords
Yelp has fields for your website and phone number. A link in the description sends customers away, and a list of keywords reads as filler to someone comparing three businesses.
Claiming what you cannot back up
A license, award, price or guarantee that your records do not state is a claim a customer can check. Sheevook writes only from what you have recorded.
Publish to Yelp with Sheevook
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Get your Yelp account ready
Claim your business page: Claim the page in Yelp for Business so you can edit the text a customer reads. Edit the business text: Add the 'From the business' text, specialties and history. Yelp Connect and Yelp Ads are paid products and are not drafted here.
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Know why Yelp is posted by hand
Yelp has no organic feed post for most businesses, and nothing lets a tool edit a business page. Draft the page text here, then paste it into Yelp for Business yourself.
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Write once, let Sheevook tailor it
Write your post once. Sheevook re-authors it for Yelp inside Sheevook's own 1,000-character cap, shows what changed, and blocks a near-copy of another platform's version before it schedules. The voice it writes in: Plain, factual, and specific. Describe the business the way you would to a customer who is comparing three options.
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Copy it and post it yourself
Approve the draft, use Copy for manual post, and paste it into Yelp. Nothing goes out until you post it.
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See what actually worked
Yelp reports nothing back, so there is no engagement to read. Where the post carries your tracked link, its clicks and conversions are still tied to it. Results rank on outcomes, not reach.
What wins on Yelp
- State services, area and hours exactly as the source does
- Keep it factual: a customer is comparing you with two others
- Tell the reader how to reach you
- Reply to reviews plainly, including the critical ones
Yelp questions
- Can Sheevook post to Yelp?
- No. Nothing lets a tool edit a Yelp business page, and most businesses have no organic feed post. Sheevook writes the page text, and you paste it into Yelp for Business yourself.
- Can I ask customers to review my business on Yelp?
- Yelp's guidelines tell businesses not to ask customers for reviews, and rewarding a review is prohibited by the FTC rule. Sheevook does not draft a request. Check Yelp's current guidelines for the exact wording.
- What is Yelp Connect?
- Yelp Connect and Yelp's other promotion tools are paid, sold through Yelp Ads, so Sheevook does not write for them. It drafts the free text of your business page.
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