- [Home](https://truthsignal.com/) - [Business](https://truthsignal.com/business) - yell.com # yell.com Markdown: [Snapshot](https://truthsignal.com/business/yell.com/snapshot.md) [Full report](https://truthsignal.com/business/yell.com/report.md) ## Website yell.com yell.com yell.com Checked on 12 Nov 2026, 22:26 Unclaimed Own this business? Claim it now and get instant access to analytics, insights and further ways to improve your truth score. ## Truth score Truth score 90 out of 100, High truth signals. Customer satisfaction: insufficient evidence 90 / 100 High truth signals Top 5% of businesses we’ve checked ## Business details Category: Directory and listings Founded: 1966 Places to visit: 12 stores Redhill, Wakefield, Newport, Bourne, Norwich and more Kind of seller: Comparison, review or referral site Licensed trade: No licence normally needed Domain age: 31 years Address: Not found No address found using the trading company name Email address: Not found Phone number: Not found Contact page: Not found Website: [yell.com](https://yell.com/?utm_source=truthsignal.com&utm_medium=referral) Social media: Not found ## Customer reviews, accreditations and complaints Site Reviews Rating [SmartCustomer](https://www.smartcustomer.com/reviews/yell.com) · Read 12 November 2026 · 7 reviews · 2.7 out of 5 stars [App Store](https://apps.apple.com/gb/app/yell-find-local-businesses/id329334877) · Read 12 November 2026 · 3,995 ratings · 4.8 out of 5 stars Total 4,002 4.8 out of 5 stars Trustpilot reviews are not included in this assessment. This business also has a [Trustpilot page](https://uk.trustpilot.com/review/www.yell.com), which may contain additional customer reviews. We recommend checking these alongside the reviews shown here. Customer satisfaction Insufficient evidence · From 7 reviews on 1 independent review site App experience Mostly satisfied · High confidence · From 3,995 ratings on the App Store ## Summary Is yell.com legit and trustworthy? Truth score 90 out of 100, high truth signals: 7 public checks clear, 1 to be cautious about, 1 not found, 2 for information. Legitimacy confidence: high. App experience: mostly satisfied, high confidence. Customer satisfaction: insufficient evidence. yell.com's website address was registered 31 years ago, and is locked against transfer to someone else. It has a review page on Trustpilot. No malware or phishing warnings found for its website. Be cautious: its 7 reviews on SmartCustomer average only 2.7 stars out of 5. We could not find social media profiles, an address, an email address or a phone number. ### Positives - Its website address was registered 31 years ago. - It has a review page on [Trustpilot](https://uk.trustpilot.com/review/www.yell.com). - No malware or phishing warnings found for its website. ### Be cautious - A low number of independent reviews (7 on [SmartCustomer](https://www.smartcustomer.com/reviews/yell.com) ), but it falls short with only 2.7 stars out of 5. ### Not found - Social presence information was not found from our checks. - Address information was not found from our checks. - Email address information was not found from our checks. - Phone number information was not found from our checks. Our technical team has been informed. Important context: Truth Signal weighs public evidence about this business. A high score means strong evidence that the business is established and legitimate, not a promise that it is safe to buy from or that every purchase will go well. A low score means the evidence is thin or raises concerns, not that the business is unsafe or a scam. ### What they offer Where to find them Places: 12 stores · 7 towns · 5 with no town given - Redhill 1 - Wakefield 1 - Newport 1 - Bourne 1 - Norwich 1 - High Wycombe 1 - Ripon 1 Sources [OpenStreetMap](https://www.openstreetmap.org/copyright) ### How to check if yell.com is legit To check if yell.com is legit yourself, look at the same public records we did: the company register, who owns the web address and since when, customer reviews (where buyers leave praise and complaints), visitor numbers, how long the site has existed, social profiles, malware lists, data breaches and email security. Each row below shows what that record says about yell.com; open a row to see the facts and the source to check them yourself. Step by step: [how to know if a shopping site is legit](https://truthsignal.com/guides/how-to-know-if-a-shopping-site-is-legit). ### Who they are Company details Founded in 1966 (Wikipedia) From Wikipedia Type (Wikipedia): private company limited by shares Industry: marketing Founded: 1966 Sources [Wikipedia](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yell_%28company%29) Domain registration Its website address was registered 31 years ago - Its website address is locked against being transferred to someone else Domain age: 31 years Domain transfer lock enabled: Yes Sources [ICANN Lookup](https://lookup.icann.org/en/lookup?name=yell.com) Website details Found: https enabled, hosting company HTTPS enabled: Yes Contact phone number found: Not found Contact page found: Not found Hosting company: Cloudflare, Inc. Search engines and AI Blocks automated visitors: its bot protection turned us away Which search engines and AI tools its robots.txt file lets read the website. Search engines list it in results; AI training tools learn from it; AI answer tools read it to answer someone’s question. Search engines All blocked Google Search: Blocked by its bot protection Googlebot Bing: Blocked by its bot protection Bingbot AI training All blocked OpenAI: Blocked by its bot protection GPTBot Anthropic: Blocked by its bot protection ClaudeBot Google AI: Blocked by its bot protection Google-Extended Apple AI: Blocked by its bot protection Applebot-Extended Common Crawl: Blocked by its bot protection CCBot Meta: Blocked by its bot protection meta-externalagent ByteDance (TikTok): Blocked by its bot protection Bytespider AI answers All blocked ChatGPT search: Blocked by its bot protection OAI-SearchBot ChatGPT: Blocked by its bot protection ChatGPT-User Claude search: Blocked by its bot protection Claude-SearchBot Claude: Blocked by its bot protection Claude-User Perplexity: Blocked by its bot protection PerplexityBot Sources [robots.txt](https://yell.com/robots.txt) ### Reputation and track record Customer reviews, accreditations and complaints 4,002 reviews across 2 platforms, rated 2.7 to 4.8 out of 5 Platform · Rating · Reviews [Trustpilot](https://uk.trustpilot.com/review/www.yell.com) · Unknown · Unknown [SmartCustomer](https://www.smartcustomer.com/reviews/yell.com) · 2.7 out of 5 stars · 7 Total · 4.8 out of 5 stars · 4,002 App Store Its app, Yell – Find Local Businesses, is on Apple's App Store, rated 4.8 out of 5 from 3,995 ratings, counted in the reviews total. App: Yell – Find Local Businesses App Store page: [https://apps.apple.com/gb/app/yell-find-local-businesses/id329334877](https://apps.apple.com/gb/app/yell-find-local-businesses/id329334877) App Store rating: 4.8 out of 5 App Store ratings: 3,995 Visitor traffic Real people visited its website in 24 of the last 24 months - Real people have visited its website since February 2021 or earlier - It is among the 50,000 most-visited sites on the internet (Cloudflare Radar) Monthly visitor data Popularity among Chrome users: top 100,000 sites First known user traffic: Feb 2021 or earlier Months with real traffic, of the last 24: 24 Traffic pattern: sustained Rank jump in the last 12 months: none Rank drop in the last 12 months: none Cloudflare Radar Popularity across the internet: top 50,000 sites Where its visitors are Share of people looking up yell.com, by country, over the last 2 days. - Over 50% - 5 to 50% - 1 to 5% - 0.2 to 1% - Under 0.2% - None seen - 1 United States 27.7% - 2 Singapore 23.7% - 3 United Kingdom 13.5% - 4 Germany 11.4% - 5 Brazil 3.5% - 6 France 1.4% - 7 Canada 1.4% - 8 India 1.2% - 9 Netherlands 1.2% - 10 Spain 0.9% Top 10 of 49 countries. Sources [Chrome UX Report](https://developer.chrome.com/docs/crux) [Cloudflare Radar](https://radar.cloudflare.com/domains/domain/yell.com) Web history and authority The Internet Archive first saved a copy of its website 29 years ago Website archive history: 29 years Sources [First archived copy](https://web.archive.org/web/19961219/yell.com) Social presence We could not check how big its social media following is: the check ran out of time. ### Safety Malware and phishing No malware or phishing warnings found for its website This check is not perfect: it can miss a harmful site, and it can wrongly warn about a safe one. Malware or phishing threat status: None found Sources [Google Web Risk](https://docs.cloud.google.com/web-risk/docs/advisory) Data breach history No known data breach involving the company Known data breaches found: 0 Sources [Have I Been Pwned](https://haveibeenpwned.com/) Domain and email security Its email is protected: mail forged in its name is blocked Email MX records: Yes SPF record: Yes DKIM key: Yes DMARC record: Yes DMARC policy: reject Certificate Security certificate browsers warn about: No Certificate issuer: Google Trust Services Certificate type: DV Certificate expires: 1 Feb 2027 Hosting Nameservers: dawn.ns.cloudflare.com peyton.ns.cloudflare.com Address: 104.18.26.179 104.18.27.179 Sources [Its DNS records](https://dns.google/query?name=yell.com&rr_type=TXT) ### Proof of ownership What the business has done to prove it runs this website. Each proof adds points to its truth score, up to 5. A proof it has not added is never counted against it. DNS record Not added yet +3 possible What we check: A record the business adds in its domain's settings. Only someone who runs the website can add one. When we check: On every check. The points stay only while the record is there. Points: 0 of 3 added Source yell.com's DNS records Run yell.com? Add the record and 3 points are added to its truth score. [Prove you run this website](https://truthsignal.com/claim/yell.com) Email at its own domain Not added yet +1 possible What we check: That someone at the business has confirmed an email address at its own website's domain. When we check: When the address is confirmed. It counts from then on. Points: 0 of 1 added Source Truth Signal's own records Run yell.com? Confirm an email address at the domain and 1 point is added to its truth score. [Prove you run this website](https://truthsignal.com/claim/yell.com) Lets our checker read it Not added yet +1 possible What we check: That its robots.txt file names our checker, TruthSignal, and lets it read the whole website. When we check: On every check. The point stays only while the file allows it. Points: 0 of 1 added Source yell.com/robots.txt Run yell.com? Let our checker read the whole website and 1 point is added to its truth score. [Prove you run this website](https://truthsignal.com/claim/yell.com) Points added to its truth score 0 of 5 Is this your business? Get the code to show this score on your website Truth Signal truth score for yell.com The badge always shows your latest score and links to your full report. Something wrong on this report? [Dispute this page](https://truthsignal.com/contact?dispute=yell.com). Tell us which row or warning is wrong and why. 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With this business's figures: (7 × 3.5 + 2.7 × 7 (SmartCustomer) + 4.8 × 3,995 (App Store)) ÷ (7 + 4,002) = 4.8, to one decimal place ## Cite Truth Signal, yell.com: truth score 90 out of 100, legitimacy confidence High, assessed 2026-11-12, https://truthsignal.com/business/yell.com. Licence Truth Signal terms: free to read and quote with a link back; bulk copying, data sets, resale, white-label and model training need the paid API plan (https://truthsignal.com/terms). The same report as JSON: https://truthsignal.com/business/yell.com.json