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Yola

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4 Reviews and Ratings

What is Yola?

Yola is a website builder and online presense platform that helps small and medium businesses, like shops, service providers, and non-profits, get online easily. Yola can be used to create a website, set up an online store, and get a website address.


Yola features:


  1. Ease of Use
    Yola is simple so there is no need to know how to code or to be a tech whiz, with an editor that enables anyone to make a website quickly.
  2. Professional-looking websites
    Yola's website templates are optimized for small and medium businesses to make them look professional online. They can also be customized.
  3. Customer Support
    The Yola support team is available to help customers get unstuck, and to answer questions.

Yola is presented as an ideal solution to get a business online without a hassle, whether it will be selling products, offering services, or running a charity.


Reasons I've Clinged to My Yola for 10 Years

Use Cases and Deployment Scope

1. Foremost, as it concerns Yola's utility towards addressing business problems, that's not how I would view it. Instead, what Yola does is provide a highly diverse platform which enables us to resolve our own business challenges. Yola appreciably has and does have a platform which is so versatile that there are multiple options which enable us to share images, receive off-site emails, off-site phone calls, post on-site videos, and other HTML's, including correspondence form capabilities. Yola is the perfect site for us since it provides an extraordinary boutique of options suitable for our operations. And ..... 2. With regard to scope of use case, please allow me to share the fact that we're a consumer protection concern with emphasis on being a consumer reference source for learning self-defensive-offensive strategies against home improvement fraud.

Pros

  • Remains human. Yola staff are human.
  • Yola staff responds DIRECTLY to customer communications - in kind.
  • I've been a Yola client for 10+ yrs because other web design entities weren't worth either my time, money, or respect.
  • For us, Yola is the absolute master in web design advantages.
  • Images we upload to Yola are untainted. At times they look a lot better than what was uploaded: crisp, fresh, delectable, and so beautiful. AWESOME!
  • The website allows reasonable freedom-of-design. Granted, like any other website, what you create has to be within it structural parameters - but they're very broad, stable, and well-protected.
  • I could go on and on, but my time isn't as 'infinite' as these 'bars' appear to be. They have only one function being automated, and have no appointment or other business to attend to. So, I respectfully hope that what I've mentioned will suffice. Thanks.

Return on Investment

  • For one, it help keep our service availability visible 24/7
  • It's a tremendous way to showcase what we do to millions of potential visitors.
  • Finally, Yola is a virtual growth enabler.

Usability

Alternatives Considered

Squarespace, Wix and GoDaddy

Always Professional and Very Helpful

Use Cases and Deployment Scope

I use Yola for everything from personal website creation to websites for "class of" projects to building sites for work clients. Most recently, I've been using It to fulfill digital products. I really like it's ease of use and the ability to customize it to our various needs.

Pros

  • Easy Setup Using Templates
  • Quick Build Outs of a Website
  • Allows for Extensive Customization of Templates
  • Allows for Password Control of Website or Individual Pages

Cons

  • Password Management Beyond a Single Password - Perhaps Implementing OTP which would allow the sites to do subscription services.
  • An easy way to upload images/files for reference when using HTML

Return on Investment

  • They don't charge for HTTPS connectivity when they handle your domains. That saves nearly $300 versus trying to do that with a tool like GoDaddy.
  • Easy Video integration saves a lot of coding.
  • Password management is too simple which costs time and money to circumvent their process on one password.

Usability

Alternatives Considered

GoDaddy

Yola website builder review

Use Cases and Deployment Scope

I have had a Yola website for many years. First basic then Silver.

The website is extremely easy to navigate and building your own website yourself is dead easy with multiple features, tutorials etc.

The after sales service and billing is extremely fast, efficient and friendly and you get to speak to a human without a difficult to understand accent when they call you, if you need help.

I would 100% recommend Yola to build your own websites and you can get multiple websites even with basic.

I think I've been using Yola since 2007 and never regretted it. If you have to communicate, they are extremely patient and always available.

Over the years I've tweaked my website to improve it all the time and I havent even used half of the features, there are so many.

I've used computers, laptops and frequently even my android to upload, download, publish, edit, etc.

I will never change from Yola, I'm extremely satisfied and inpressed with how Yola runs its entity.

Pros

  • Wonderful friendly after sales service
  • So many easy to use features
  • Stable company, well organised.

Cons

  • I hope Yola maintains its ability to edit everything from android.
  • I'd prefer to pay monthly without paying extra instead of once a year at discount.
  • Honestly Im happy with Yola

Return on Investment

  • I'm not a numbers person, so I can't quote numbers, but my business did well and everyone loved my website.

Usability

Yola is the best

Use Cases and Deployment Scope

I have trusted Yola for at least 20 years. I have multiple sites and find Customer Service to be useful and helpful when needed, which is not often. Yola is easy to use and building a site is a breeze for a non-techie like me. It's made for all non-techies. Try it, you'll like, no love, it.

Pros

  • Customer Service
  • Quick reply
  • Classic site-build
  • Email setup

Cons

  • None I can think of

Return on Investment

  • Website book sales, increase by 50 percent
  • Sending users to Amazon - 100%
  • 35 titles in Amazon all listed on Yola sites