Yell has been helping small businesses get found for decades, and its packages now bundle a website with listings, call handling and ads. That suits some businesses. But if what you mainly need is a website that wins work, you could be paying for a lot you don't use, on a contract you can't easily leave. Here's how the two compare, with Yell's own prices and terms.
Yell sells a managed marketing package with a website inside it. We sell a website you own, and run it for you.
Yell's website-led package, Amplify, starts at £299 a month according to its own page. Accelerate, which adds managed search, social and display ads, starts at £699 a month. For that you get a 30-page website, listings across lots of platforms, reviews management, an AI receptionist and an account manager.
The things to understand before you sign are in Yell's published terms. Packages start with a 12-month initial period. End it early and you pay 80% of what's left of that period. And unless your order says otherwise, Yell owns the intellectual property in the content it creates for you, and the site runs on Yell's hosting.
None of that makes Yell a bad choice. It makes it a particular kind of choice: you're renting a managed service. If you want ads run for you and don't want to own anything, that can be fine.
If what you actually need is a website that brings in enquiries, owning it usually costs a fraction as much. We're a web designer, so we're not neutral. That's why the comparison below uses Yell's own figures, and says where Yell is the better pick.
Yell sells more than a website: listings, reviews, call handling and, on its bigger package, managed ads. So this isn't like for like, and where Yell does something we don't, we say so. Use the filters to jump to what matters most to you.
| Yell (Amplify / Accelerate) | Zenlio LocalA site you own | |
|---|---|---|
| What it costs | Amplify from £299 a month. Accelerate, with managed ads, from £699 a month. Quoted per business. | From £1,250 to build, then £79 to £129 a month. Prices on the page. |
| Three years, website-led package | About £10,764 at £299 a month. | £4,094 to £11,114 depending on plan, build included. |
| Contract | 12-month initial period. Leaving early costs 80% of what's left of it. | 3-month minimum, then cancel with 30 days' notice. |
| Who owns the site | Yell owns the IP in content it creates, unless your order says otherwise. It runs on Yell's hosting. | You do. The domain is in your name and you take the files if you leave. |
| What's included | A 30-page website, listings across many platforms, an AI receptionist, reviews management, an account manager. Ads with Accelerate. | A site built to rank locally and in AI search, area and service pages, Google reviews shown properly, content updates. |
| Ads and listings | Managed for you, which is a real strength if you want paid ads. | Not included. We build the site your ads and listings point at. |
| Who it suits | Businesses that want one supplier for website, listings, ads and calls, with the budget for it. | Owner-run businesses that want a site that wins work, at a price that makes sense, and want to own it. |
Yell prices from Yell's own Amplify and Accelerate pages and contract terms from Yell's published advertising terms (clauses 19.4 and 24.7, and the Solution Service Rules), checked October 2026. Your own order and contract are what actually apply. Yell's three-year figure assumes the starting price; Zenlio's range runs from Starter to Growth.
We'd rather you picked the right thing than picked us.
If paid search and social are a big part of how you get work, and you don't want to manage them, Accelerate does that as one package. We don't run ads.
Yell's packages include an AI receptionist that answers calls around the clock. If missed calls are your biggest leak, that's worth weighing up.
Website, listings, reviews, ads, one account manager, one bill. If that matters more to you than cost or ownership, Yell is built for it.
If you're already with Yell and it's working, there's no prize for leaving mid-contract. Look at the numbers when your initial period ends, and decide then.
The order matters more than the speed.
Find your initial period end date and notice terms. Ask Yell in writing who the domain is registered to and what you can keep.
Make sure the domain is in your name and you can get into it. It's what your email and your Google history hang off.
We build your new site while the old one keeps running, so there's no gap. Your Google reviews stay put, because they live on your Business Profile.
Point the domain at the new site, redirect old page addresses so you keep your rankings, then give notice in line with your contract.
The same steps apply to any closed platform. Our guide to leaving Wix or Squarespace without losing rankings covers redirects and email in detail, and domain, hosting and email, explained covers who should own what.
A website is the one piece of your marketing that should keep working whoever you hire next.
Your domain, your site, your words. Change supplier and nothing disappears.
From £79 a month after the build, no VAT on top, prices on the page. Spend the difference on whatever marketing actually works for you.
Three-month minimum, then cancel with 30 days' notice. No year-long lock-in.
Service and area pages for every job and town you cover, so the searches that matter find you.
Clean structure and schema so ChatGPT, Gemini and Google's AI can read your site and recommend you.
Your Google reviews on your own site, building your name rather than someone else's directory.
Yell's own pages show Amplify, its website-led package, starting at £299 a month, and Accelerate, which adds managed advertising, starting at £699 a month. Prices are quoted per business, so get yours in writing, and check whether VAT and ad spend are on top.
Yell's published terms set a 12-month initial period for Amplify and Accelerate. For Amplify, it then moves to a monthly rolling term. Check your own Confirmation of Order, because that's what applies to you.
Yell's terms say that ending during the initial period means paying 80% of the remaining charges for that period (clause 19.4). After the initial period, notice periods apply. Read your contract before you give notice.
Not by default. Yell's terms say intellectual property in content Yell creates stays with Yell unless your order says otherwise (clause 24.7), and the site runs on Yell's hosting platform. Ask Yell in writing what you can keep, and who the domain is registered to, before you sign or leave.
Start with the domain: check who it's registered to and get control of it. Then save your content, rebuild the site somewhere you own, and redirect the old page addresses so you keep your Google rankings. Our guide to leaving Wix or Squarespace walks through the same steps.
It can be, if you want one supplier running your website, listings, ads and call handling, and the budget fits. If you mainly need a website that wins local work and you'd rather own it, you'll usually pay far less elsewhere.
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