Need a little help please, I have a website but Yell tell me it’s no good and want to sell me a new one.
Are they any good ???
Not sure where to go.
Suggestions please

Yellow Pages are a con – ignore them.

Can’t comment on Yell but how about a link to your current site?

sorry that would be a good idea,

http://www.blastman.t83.net

thanks

ask yourself this; when looking for something online what do you use, yell or Google?

you’d be better off investing the money you’d spend on a yell subscription in some search engine optimisation or ‘SEO’. Or just doing it yourself – Google has good guides about how to enhance your pages so you come out on top when people are hunting out your kind of services.

Yell, will plague you to death with phonecalls, and Applegate grrr,

They will sell you a templated website with no thought for what you need from your web presence.

They recently contacted a client claiming to have amazing links with Google and making all sorts of promises.

They supplied my client with a series of links to sites they had done, one of which was for a bath store in leeds called something like ‘leedsbathstore.co.uk’.

But if you Google ‘bath stores in leeds it doesn’t come up.

Go figure.

You could also try asking them why your existing one is no good and what they will do to improve the design and (more importantly) the build standard.

@blastit – interesting that your site is built using Moonfruit. Yell bought Moonfruit a few months ago for about $25m! Interesting way of building on that value…

Thanks for the comments everyone, gives me plenty to think about.
They are very pushy at present,
Where would I start with SEO and what are the costs ? I did do a bit but got a bit lost.

The simple way to do it is to just hav e a website with lots of info. You can’t fool Google for long.

Yup, Yell is a waste of money.

If it helps, a few years ago I contemplated going freelance as a web designer…one avenue i considered for potential clients was going to be contacting yell customers and offering them a website. The yell templates I found were terrible.

That was a few years ago though, might have improved by now.

I had a total nightmare with yell dont go near them

They supplied my client with a series of links to sites they had done, one of which was for a bath store in leeds called something like ‘leedsbathstore.co.uk’.

But if you Google ‘bath stores in leeds it doesn’t come up.

Yup, we had a similar client. Though they had already went ahead with the website. It didn’t show up on Search Engines. Only through Yell.com… And to top it off the website was crap.

Don’t do it.