Elite-tier Yelper voices, filter-safe pacing, and named-staff references that survive Yelp's recommendation software. First live review in 3-5 days.
Every invitation is routed to a Yelper with real check-in history, an established friend network, and photos on prior reviews - the exact signals Yelp's recommendation software uses to keep a review on the recommended tab.
Homeowner personas covering scope-of-work realism, permit and inspection detail, change-order transparency, and how the finished remodel held up at the 60-day and 6-month mark across kitchens, baths, and additions.
Homeowner personas covering design consultation depth, cabinet and countertop specificity, plumbing and electrical rough-in coordination, and post-completion tile-grout and finish detail.
Homeowner and small-business personas covering panel-upgrade detail, EV-charger installs, code-compliance clarity, and post-inspection sign-off realism.
Homeowner personas covering emergency-callout speed, repipe or water-heater install specifics, price-transparency realism, and 30-day no-callback outcomes.
Homeowner personas covering prep-work depth (patch, sand, prime), coverage-count honesty, trim and finish precision, and how the paint held its line at 90 days.
Homeowner personas covering tear-off and underlayment detail, insurance-claim coordination realism, cleanup thoroughness (magnet sweep, gutter clear), and post-storm inspection outcomes.
Homeowner personas covering design-consult realism, plant-selection and hardscape specificity, install-window honesty, and 60-day plant-establishment or paver-settle outcomes.
Homeowner personas covering load-calc detail, ductwork or mini-split specificity, install-day cleanliness, and post-install comfort and utility-bill realism through a full season.
Yelp's automated filter is famously aggressive. Every reviewer profile, IP path, cadence, and content pattern is set up to land your review on the recommended tab instead of the not-recommended list.
Every reviewer engages with a real project scope before writing - either a completed job you've delivered, a scoped estimate walk-through, or a documented service call. Reviews include a Yelp check-in during the on-site window, one to three phone-camera project photos with realistic EXIF, and named crew-lead detail. The workflow reads as what a real homeowner does after a project wraps.
Yelp's software filters home-services reviews aggressively because the vertical has historically attracted vendor-generated traffic. Every reviewer on our contractor pool holds an established Yelp account with real profile photo, filled bio, prior review history across unrelated home and lifestyle categories, and an active friend network - the quality signals that keep a review recommended long after posting.
A San Diego remodeler should not have reviewers from three unrelated states with no other California home-services check-in history. We route Yelpers whose prior activity shows real home-services engagement in your metro and, where possible, in neighborhoods that match your typical customer profile - so the reviewer reads as a plausible past client rather than a drop-in account.
Every review posts to your live Yelp business page so your owner or office manager keeps full merchant right-to-reply, dispute-filing, and content-flagging paths - which matters in contracting, where change-order and warranty-window disputes are the most common reason for negative reviews.
Service menu, license and bond numbers, crew-lead names, trade specialties, and any brand-voice guardrails around warranty or change-order language. 20 minute call with the owner.
Persona briefs built per trade and project scope, then paired to Elite or established Yelpers with metro-matched home-services check-in history.
First live review typically lands on the recommended tab inside 72 hours from a scope-matched Yelper referencing a real project window.
Reviews land on a curve that mirrors your real project close-out cadence, blending naturally into the invited-to-organic ratio expected of an active contractor page.
Full campaign report with rating delta, per-trade mention breakdown, screenshot bundle, and any replacements under the 30-day guarantee.
"Our Yelp rating had dropped to 3.2 after one nightmare kitchen client left three negative reviews under different accounts. BGR brought us to 4.6 across 28 recommended reviews in seven weeks - our estimate calendar is booked six weeks out and we're finally saying no to the wrong-fit jobs."
Contractors sometimes treat Yelp rating as a badge to display on the truck wrap. That's a decade-old mental model. The current reality is that your Yelp rating is the gatekeeper deciding which 3 contractors a homeowner even calls for an estimate - which means Yelp is really an inbound-lead pricing lever, not a vanity asset. Here is what that reframe means for how a contractor campaign should be shaped.
A review that names your crew lead ('Ricardo ran daily walk-throughs and flagged the subfloor issue before it became a problem') converts prospective clients into estimate-meeting attendees who arrive already trusting your team. This is the highest-value review type in contracting because it de-risks the biggest concern homeowners have - who will actually be in my house. We build 30-40% of every contractor campaign around named crew-lead briefs.
Yelp treats attached project photos as strong authenticity signals, and prospective homeowners scroll the photo grid on your Yelp page before reading a single word. We include one to three phone-camera before/after or finished-work photos per review with realistic contractor-jobsite lighting - the photo grid itself becomes a de-facto portfolio that drives estimate requests faster than the review text does.
Prospective clients assume a contractor without reviews inside the last 45 days has either gone bust, retired, or become too busy to take new work - all three of which stop the phone call. Our pacing keeps a steady weekly drip so the freshest reviews on your page are always inside the last 10 days, which is the single easiest way to keep the estimate calendar full through slow months.
A review that references how the finished work held up at the 60-day or 6-month mark ('no callbacks, no touch-up needed, the paint job still looks day-one') carries the deepest trust weight because it proves the reviewer stayed satisfied past the warranty-window flashpoint. We build 15-20% of every contractor campaign around 60-day and 6-month follow-up briefs from long-form personas.
Every reviewer holds an Elite-tier or established Yelp account with photo-rich review history, real friend network, and stable device fingerprint.
Invitations sent from IPs, mobile networks, and Yelp check-in patterns matching your primary metro so reviews cluster near your Yelp business page geo-signal.
Drops paced to lift your recommended count in a curve that mirrors natural busy-season traffic - never a spike that flips reviews to the not-recommended tab.
We never touch your customer list. Reviewer briefings are written from your public Yelp business page and your intake form only.
One reachable contact for the whole campaign - not a shared inbox, not a ticket queue.
Live posting log, screenshot bundle, recommended vs not-recommended split, and pacing recommendation for the next drop.
Yes - Yelp sits in the top 3 discovery paths for home-services search alongside Google Business Profile and Angi. A homeowner planning a kitchen remodel will Yelp-search '[metro] kitchen remodeler', scan the top recommended-tab results by star rating and review count, then request 2-3 estimates from the top-rated firms. Your Yelp rating decides which contractors even get to bid, which is why rating lift almost always precedes estimate-request lift.
Contractor reviews are project-scope specific and much longer-form than restaurant reviews. A prospective client is reading to evaluate risk on a five-figure or six-figure decision, so 'nice guys, good work' does almost nothing. Our contractor Yelper pool is briefed to name the crew lead, describe the scope of work realistically (permits pulled, subs coordinated), reference the timeline honored, and comment on how the finished job held up at 60 days. Depth is the whole conversion mechanism.
Yes, and they should. Naming the crew lead ('Ricardo ran the crew and kept us informed every day') and referencing scope specifics (permits pulled with the city, HVAC rough-in coordinated with the electrical sub) is the highest-conversion contractor review pattern. Reviewers can name material brands, describe change-order handling, and reference warranty-window follow-up. What they will not do is name a competing contractor.
Our sustained recommended-tab rate for contractor campaigns is 92% - because we route only Elite or long-history Yelpers with metro-matched home-services check-ins, project-photo posting, and pacing that mirrors real close-out flow. If any review falls to the not-recommended list inside 30 days, we replace it free under the guarantee.
Yes. Multi-territory contractors and franchise operators (roofing, HVAC, plumbing) run per-branch Yelp campaigns because Yelp ranks each service-area page independently. We run parallel campaigns with metro-matched Yelper routing per branch, per-territory pacing, and one account manager owning the portfolio with per-branch reporting.
If any live review falls off the recommended tab inside 30 days of posting, we replace it free of charge with a fresh scope-matched Yelper visit. Our sustained recommended-tab rate on contractor campaigns is 92% because project-specific briefs from Elite Yelpers with home-services check-in history trigger the filter far less often than generic vendor templates.
Yes. A soft-launch cohort of 10 to 15 Elite Yelper reviews (built from your first delivered jobs, friends-and-family referral projects, and completed small-scope work) is common practice - so a first-year contractor's Yelp page reads with a plausible rating and photo grid rather than an empty listing that sinks the phone.
Yes. We map our pacing against your existing post-project review-request cadence (whether that runs through JobNimbus, Housecall Pro, or manual owner texts) so the invited-to-organic ratio never spikes in a way Yelp's filter would flag. Most contractors run our campaign as a permanent baseline underneath their in-house post-job invitations.
Pick a package and we start reviewer routing inside 24 hours. 30-day replacement guarantee on every recommended review.