836 AI answers about salons and spas cited 44 review sites. Grades.com collects reviews from 23 of them. Answers from the last 90 days (Aug 1 to Oct 30, 2026).
Which review sites matter most for salons and spas?
By AI citation share, the top review sites for salons and spas are Yelp (48.0%), Google Business Profile (12.6%) and Tripadvisor (10.5%), out of 836 AI answers about salons and spas. 13 sites are cited in at least 20 of those answers.
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Share of 836 AI answers about salons and spas (the last 90 days) that cite each site, ranked. 12 of the 13 sites cited in 20 or more answers; the other 1 are in the table.
Which review sites does each AI assistant cite for salons and spas?
ChatGPT cites Google Business Profile most (50% of its answers), Claude cites Yelp most (89% of its answers), Gemini cites BBB most (9% of its answers) and Perplexity cites Yelp most (76% of its answers). Each chart: the share of that assistant's answers about salons and spas that cite the site.
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Yelp is the review site AI assistants cite most for salons and spas: 48.0% of 836 answers, ahead of Google Business Profile (12.6%).
Google Business Profile is where most salons and spas already are: 100% of the 129 we checked have a profile there, and AI cites it in 12.6% of answers.
Yelp is cited in 48.0% of answers, yet only 19% of the salons and spas we checked have a profile there.
Yelp is cited in 48.0% of answers, but its rules do not allow asking customers for reviews: claim the profile and reply instead.
Facebook has the biggest audience of these sites: about 3.2B monthly visits (an estimate).
Where do salons and spas get reviews?
Of the salons and spas we checked, 100% have a Google Business Profile, 69% have a Facebook profile and 19% have a Yelp profile (n = 129 businesses).
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Share of the salons and spas we checked with a profile on each site, 0 to 100%. n = businesses checked.
The full ranking
See all 13 sites cited in 20 or more answers, in a table
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AI citation share: the share of the 836 AI answers about salons and spas that cite the site. Sites cited in fewer than 20 of these answers are left out.Has a profile: salons and spas we checked with a profile on the site. Collected = Grades.com pulls reviews from this site. Site reach: estimated monthly organic search visits to the site's domain (DataForSEO Labs, Ahrefs Domain Rating, October 2026).
Frequently asked questions
Which review site do AI assistants cite most for salons and spas?
Yelp is cited in 48.0% of 836 AI answers about salons and spas, ahead of Google Business Profile (12.6%) and Tripadvisor (10.5%).
Do salons and spas need Yelp?
Yelp ranks #1 of 13 for salons and spas: AI assistants cite it in 48.0% of 836 answers about salons and spas, against 43.4% of all answers. 19% of the salons and spas we checked have a profile there (n = 129). Grades.com collects Yelp reviews.
Which review sites does Grades.com collect for salons and spas?
Of the 44 review sites cited in AI answers about salons and spas, Grades.com collects reviews from 23, among them Yelp, Google Business Profile, Tripadvisor, BBB, Fresha and Healthgrades.
Which review site is easiest for salons and spas to get reviews on?
Of the review sites cited for salons and spas, Google Business Profile is the one cited most (12.6% of AI answers) whose own rules let anyone leave a review, let the business send a direct review link, and allow asking customers for reviews. Yelp does not allow asking.
What is AI citation share?
The share of AI answers that cite a review site. Here it is counted over 836 answers about salons and spas from ChatGPT, Claude, Gemini and Perplexity in the last 90 days: Yelp is cited in 401 of them, a 48.0% share.
The three words this page uses: collected = Grades.com pulls reviews from the site (54 review sites in all); measured = every review site the AI answers cited, across all industries (109 sites); cited for salons and spas = the measured sites that appeared in at least one of the 836 answers about salons and spas (44 sites).
Data window: Aug 1 to Oct 30, 2026 (90 days), October 2026 edition, data as of October 30, 2026.
AI citation share: answers citing the site divided by the 836 AI answers about salons and spas (businesses in the "Beauty & Spas" category of the Grades.com directory), from ChatGPT, Claude, Gemini and Perplexity. The chart and the table rank the sites cited in 20 or more of these answers. Search-result and help pages on a review site are not counted.
Has a profile: the share of the salons and spas we checked with a profile on the site (n = businesses checked).
Picks: most cited by AI = highest citation share; easiest to get reviews = the site cited most whose own rules let anyone review, let the business send a direct review link and allow asking (from its guide; never Yelp, which does not allow asking); most replies from businesses = highest share of reviews with a business reply, across all industries, shown with at least 100 reviews checked. A pick the data cannot support is left out.
Start with these three: the sites cited most for salons and spas that Grades.com collects, one per site Grades.com connects. A site that shows another site's reviews is covered by connecting that site.
Site reach: estimated monthly organic search visits to the site's domain (DataForSEO Labs, Ahrefs Domain Rating, October 2026); an estimate for the whole domain, not a figure published by the site, and the same in every industry.
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