Ken Padgett

  Many business owners believe Yelp is a protection racket masquerading as a review site. They say Yelp has full control over which reviews are counted and that Yelp manipulates the ratings based on whether or not a business buys advertising from them. They say Yelp salespeople are relentless and very aggressive. Business owners who pay for advertising are promised some control over their reviews. Yelp has a market capitalization of $3.2 billion. More than 42 million reviews have been posted to Yelp and the site averages 108 million visitors per month. Yelp Reviews Yelp's business model pits the consumer against the business. Yelp's product is advertising and their customers are business owners, not consumers. Yelp's content, other than advertising is provided free of charge by their users, but any time there is a conflict between a consumer and an advertiser, Yelp sides with the advertiser. Yelp salespeople are coached to offer advertisers assistance in getti...

Update 3/30/2023 I received an email today from a Mr Cacho at Dog and Rooster asking me to take this review down because Mr Jack Jung, former CEO has left the company and it is under new management. Since I'd prefer to keep this up, at least for the time being, I want to make it clear to everyone who bothers to read this (and I can't imagine why anyone would bother) that my previous issue was with Jack Jung in his capacity as CEO and I have no opinion on the new management of the company other than to wish them well. 11/13/2019 dogandrooster.com aka webdevelopmentsandiego.net aka "Dog and Rooster, Inc" aka "Dog and Rooster Studio" is also known as "Website Design San Diego" Lawsuit Update: According to "Trellis," on February 27, 2020, Defendant Todd Green was awarded attorneys fees and costs in the amount of $16,553.50. https://trellis.law/rulings/party/%22TODD%20GREEN%22/? Kudos to Mr Todd Green for standing up to the bullying by J...