Are you a member of Yelp, but need to discuss something you don't about the website, or you know something you need to let others know about? Although the business pages aren't the right place to discuss these items, the Yelp Talk page is. Find out how to use this Talk page by following the directions in this article.
Steps
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Login to Yelp , if you haven't done this already.Advertisement
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Run a search by zipcode only, to set the zipcode for the region of viewers who will be able to see your discussion, and for you to be able to participate with some knowledge of the area. The people who can participate best are those that live within the same region, because they've had the most experience living there, so who better to communicate than the folks living there.
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Part 1
Part 1 of 3:
Find a Conversation
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Look at the resultant page. You’ll find 2 main columns. One is a categorized area of categories to search from. The other are the messages you can select and converse with.
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Browse through the left-hand list first, to get a good idea of what types of categories they have, and which categories you think you’d best be interested in. Although “Yelper Shout-Outs” , “Site Questions & Updates” and “My Conversations” (once a conversation has been published) are the most-used categories, they do occasionally have things posed in these other areas.
- Recognize where all messages can be selected from this list too, so you can get back to the beginning later on. The selection “All Categories” contains all the messages that have been posed on the entire Yelp website.
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Scroll up and down the list on the right, to find a conversation that you think you can handle appropriately.
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Click the conversation subject’s blue hyperlink line.
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Part 2
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Reply to a Conversation
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Find your conversation by following the topics above.
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Read the page, and see if you can help answer the question or pose a good viewpoint on the subject.
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Scroll up and down the page, for other peoples’ replies to the subject. You will not always be the first user to reply. Let others have that chance too.
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Find and click into the box underneath the red titled line labeled “What do you think?” and directly underneath the labeled description “Enter Your Reply “. It is hard to discern that there is really a box there. A white box with no real darker border, makes it hard to find. Realize the approximate placement of this box.
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Type your reply into this Reply box.
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Click the red (with white lettering) Reply button (found underneath and slightly to the right of the text box) to submit your reply to the conversation.Advertisement
Part 3
Part 3 of 3:
Start a New Conversation
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Click the red (with white lettering) “New Conversation“ button from the Yelp Talk page . This button can be found above and to the right of the conversations in the conversation list.
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Click the “Topic Name” text box, to enter your subject for your conversation.
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Select the category your conversation would best be situated in. Click the circular button (to the left of the item) to select your choice. Most topics can either be filed under "Local Questions & Answers", "Site Questions & Updates" or "Other".
- Sometimes, there's even been call for Yelpers to say "a long-time big hello" by using the "Yelper Shout-Outs" category.
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Type your approximate location, if you feel it’s best localized to one specific area.
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Type your message in the text box. Make sure the message correlates to the subject line’s data you entered above, to make sure readers understand what your topic is really about. It really hurts your image, when you have wrong ideas going with wrong data.
- Chew your words wisely. Make your ideas short, sweet and to the point. It’s hard to understand when people ramble on endlessly, and makes it that much more impossible for people to understand and reply to later on. You can elaborate slightly on your question, but if you go paragraph-after-paragraph on one single subject, that’s just too much.
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Leave the “Send me email updates when others reply” button checked, to know when others have replied to your conversation.
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Click the "Post" button located underneath the "Send me email updates when others reply" button has been checked.Advertisement
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Tips
- First time writers to the Yelp talk page, please be sure to read the Talk page guidelines before submitting any talk page messages to the site.Thanks
- A Yelp talk page message will become closed, if the talk message has not received a reply over the course of a period of 2 months, or it's last reply was more than 2 months past the date of last posting.Thanks
- As you change the search bar, you’ll find that on the home page the area labeled “Today in Talk” changes. The Yelp homepage tries to localize the talk page messages to best suit your area. Be aware that people, just like you who live nearby you, may have just answered your question. As you change your location, you’ll also find your address bar link changes to best suit this area. Be sure to change your search location, before browsing to the Yelp talk page, as, if you do this after browsing there, you’ll end up getting referred back to the Yelp.com search page for the city or zip code you entered.Thanks
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Warnings
- Be aware that for some topics, it may take a few days to a few weeks for a reply to happen. Some topics don’t ever receive replies, so be on the special lookout for these messages. Don’t worry if this happens; some are more responsive than others.Thanks
- For messages about suggestions or messages about bugs in the software or lots of other weird things, realize that these shouldn’t go into the Talk page area of the Yelp website. Use the Yelp Contact page to submit these issues and suggestions. (Read the Contact Yelp’s drop-down box for a list of options you can choose from, as there are so many there (including sub-categorizing some Contact Yelp categories), it would be impossible to list every situation here.)Thanks
- As you change the search bar, you’ll find that on the home page the area labeled “Today in Talk” changes. The Yelp homepage tries to localize the talk page messages to best suit your area. Be aware that people, just like you who live nearby you, may have just answered your question. As you change your location, you’ll also find your address bar link changes to best suit this area. Be sure to change your search location, before browsing to the Yelp talk page, as, if you do this after browsing there, you’ll end up getting referred back to the Yelp.com search page for the city or zip code you entered.Thanks
- Although the Yelp admins won't tell you this directly, and won't reply either, the Yelp admins will read the Talk pages as messages are submitted. Be forewarned!Thanks
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Things You'll Need
- Internet access
- Yelp account
- computer mouse and keyboard
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