Yext
What Is Yext?
Yext's Answers Platform collects and organizes content into a Knowledge Graph, then leverages a complementary set of products — including Listings, Pages, Reviews, and Search — to deliver relevant, Read more actionable answers wherever customers, employees, and partners look for information. For over 15 years, thousands of companies worldwide have trusted Yext to create seamless content-driven experiences at scale across search engines, websites, mobile apps, and hundreds of other digital touchpoints. Read lessWho Uses Yext?
Global businesses of all sizes, across all verticals. Yext works with small and medium-sized businesses, enterprise businesses, partner re-sellers, and nonprofit organizations.
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Reviews of Yext
Giovanni
Alternatives Considered:
My Go-To Local Business Listing Software
Comments: Yext has made it easy for us to generate income from a very necessary action that small businesses and big businesses alike absolutely need done. We get results in just hours where some other listing software can take days to update listings.
Pros:
We've seen the best results for our clients when using Yext to update/correct their business listing across the web. It's an easy to use interface that helps you keep on top of all listings and finds the issues for you. This has saved us countless hours of manual searches.
Cons:
The cost makes it a bit difficult to sign up some clients that do not have a big budget.
Yext Response
3 years ago
Thank you for leaving your review, Giovanni. We appreciate the kind words and are glad to hear that your clients are finding success with our services.
Ian
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Effective and Easy to Use
Comments: Overall I like their service. Price is kind of high, but their service is worth it. Their support is really great and responsive too
Pros:
It is easy to add locations, citations are built VERY quickly, customization abilities for each location are really nice too
Cons:
Kind of expensive - and your citations revert back when you stop your subscription (but I get that part)
Yext Response
3 years ago
Thank you for your review, Ian. We're happy to hear that you're satisfied with our products and services and appreciate the feedback on our pricing structure. We are always looking for helpful feedback and will pass it along to our team. Thank you again for being a great customer.
Jamie
Does a lot good but more for beginners
Comments: Their customer support is great. They have positives. Just not the best for someone like me. I used them because my client had them already and was nice to learn because a lot of people like them. I just feel like they could do more to be top tier in their niche.
Pros:
I can see how this software is useful for people who are beginners in local SEO or business owners who want to streamline the process.
Cons:
It isn't very in depth. Bright local is better in every way outside of maybe keyword research which i use neither for.
David
Poor Experience All Around - Please Avoid
Comments: When finally attempting to use the software it was unbelievably difficult, not applicable to our needs, and frustratingly unusable. Our first call with support was a joke. The support representative said, to "perform some functions" we had to go up to the URL and remove some text. I couldn't believe my ears. We quickly learned as an "agency" we could not connect GMB (GBP) of our clients to Yext because we were not the "administrators" of the accounts. This was a deal breaker. And, if we're able to get admin access there was a very specific process to connect with Yext, including "emailing their support team" before it could happen. We are currently using (2) competitors to Yext and this step is not required. In an attempt to fix the situation, Yext set up 2 meetings with us, which they canceled both at the last second. I have documentation and witnesses for all of this. I wanted to resolve the situation directly with Yext but their support after the sale has been a painful and poor experience. I am here to hopefully help anyone else to avoid this nightmare. I did an evaluation of 8 competitors in the space, and am frustrated that I got chose the wrong platform; as they will not refund our money. We have not used the platform at all, and are such a small business this hurts.
Pros:
I was very excited at first. The sales process was very smooth and the demo they showed was impressive. I also really like the Hitchhiker's idea for education and support. I was very excited, they have an impressive sales team, but unfortunately, that was the end of it.
Cons:
-- Onboarding was all over the place. How we had to use the software was laughable. -- Interface (UX/UI) was anything but intuitive. -- Queries were extremely difficult to run without memorizing multiple steps and impossible to train staff on. -- Integration with GBP didn't exist, definitely not a Google Partner.
Russ
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588% Increase in Listings Reach
Comments: With Yext, we saw a 288% increase in Google Search queries, a 320% increase in Google Customer Actions, and a 588% increase in listings reach.
Pros:
Before Yext, our listing distribution software took weeks to update directories. Now with Yext, I can make big changes within hours. Its duplicate suppression is powerful, its analytics tools are extremely useful, and their customer support is second to none.
Cons:
There is troubleshooting with every product you use. There have been a few issues in our account with connections and categories, but the Yext team was quick to help us find a solution. It's
Yext Response
4 years ago
Thanks for leaving your review, Russ and for sharing the results you've seen with our products.
