The short version
Yelp Ads and a website of your own do different jobs. Yelp prints “From $150 / month” for Yelp Ads and “From $270 / month” for the Upgrade Package, each marked “Cancel anytime.” The ads run on Yelp’s pages. Gold Strategics builds and runs the website and Google presence that you own, at a public price, with no contract.
We do not run ads, on Yelp or anywhere else, so this is not a swap. It is the other half: a place of your own that shows up when someone searches Google.
What Yelp Ads publishes
Each line below comes from Yelp Ads’s own page, linked, and was read on November 10, 2026. Terms change, so check the page before you rely on a line. Where a page does not say something, we say that instead of guessing.
- Yelp Ads price“From $150 / month” and “Cancel anytime.”Source: Yelp for Business, local business pricing, read November 10, 2026
- Upgrade Package price“From $270 / month” for Yelp Ads and the Upgrade Package, also marked “Cancel anytime.”Source: Yelp for Business, local business pricing, read November 10, 2026
- BudgetThe same page says “Minimum budgets subject to change.”Source: Yelp for Business, local business pricing, read November 10, 2026
Side by side
| Question | Yelp Ads | Gold Strategics |
|---|---|---|
| Price | From $150 a month for Yelp Ads; from $270 a month with the Upgrade Package | Public. $500 one-time build and $349 a month, website included. The build fee is refundable in full for ninety days. |
| Contract | Marked “Cancel anytime” on the pricing page | No contract and no minimum term. Email us five business days before your next billing date to cancel (terms, section 4). |
| Where you show up | On Yelp, in Yelp’s search and on your Yelp page | On your own website and your Google Business Profile |
| Paid ads | Yes, that is the product | We do not run ads |
Where Yelp Ads may be the better fit
If your customers search Yelp, as they do for some restaurants and some home services, Yelp Ads put you in front of them, and because the pricing page says “Cancel anytime” you can test it and stop. We do not replace that. What we add is a website and a Google Business Profile you control, so a person who searches Google for what you do finds you, and a review request that goes out after each job.
What it costs with us
One extra $2,000 job a month pays for it five times over. Year one, all in: 12 x $349 + $500 = $4,688.
Cancel inside ninety days for any reason and we refund the $500 build in full, no questions asked. Monthly fees cover the months the system ran and are not refunded, and the site and domain stay yours either way.
The Business Operating System is the whole list at one price, nothing billed per tool. Website: Multi-page, SEO optimized, Intake forms, Fully custom, Career forms, AI optimized, AI chatbot. Tools: CRM, Automated follow-up and reminder tool, Visitor analytics dashboard, Online booking and scheduling with deposits, Two-way texting, Review builder, Knowledge management system. Services: Online presence audit, Google Business Profile optimization, Priority website changes.
The one case study we have is a hood cleaning company, with the owner’s own figures and our arithmetic shown: read the hood cleaning case study.
Want the numbers in writing?
Tell us what you do and we send exact numbers by email, so you can hold them next to your current bill.
Questions people ask before they switch
Should I stop advertising on Yelp?
We cannot tell that from here. Yelp's pricing page says you can cancel anytime, so it is easy to test. Look at the calls and jobs you can trace to it over a few months against what you pay.
Do you run ads for me?
No. The Business Operating System covers the website, the follow-up and booking tools, review requests and your Google Business Profile. We do not run paid ads.
What does Gold Strategics cost?
The Business Operating System is $500 to build and $349 a month, website included, with no contract. Cancel inside ninety days and the build fee is refunded.
Keep reading
Weighing paid lead sources? Read the Angi comparison, and how getting more Google reviews works. For the whole picture, how to rank in the Google map pack and what a website costs in 2026.