Thinking About Paying For Fake Yelp Reviews? Beware! – The Government Is Cracking Down!

Getting positive business reviews posted on social review sites like Yelp.com, CitySearch.com and Google Local has become big money these days and businesses big and small, in a desperate attempt to enhance their reputation and online visibility, are hiring unethical SEO companies to fake their reviews and have them published on social review sites. But this unethical practice can have some serious legal and financial consequences now that the government is heightening their enforcement actions against businesses that solicit fake reviews and those businesses who offer to publish fake reviews as a service.