It ranks first because the two things a flooring site lives on are ready to fill in rather than built from scratch: a gallery block for finished jobs and a contact form whose fields you choose. Set that form to ask for square footage, rooms, and material, and an inquiry arrives with enough detail to price over the phone. Pricing starts at $9.95/mo, there is a free plan to build on first, and no part of it asks for design experience.
Yes. You can edit page titles, meta descriptions, and page URLs yourself, so a page about hardwood floor refinishing in your city reads clearly in search results instead of showing up as Page 2. Add your service area and city names in the body text while you are there. Sites are responsive, so a homeowner who finds you on a phone gets a layout that fits the screen.
A range is usually safer than a single number, since subfloor repairs, stairs, and material grade all move the final figure. A workable middle ground is a starting price per square foot for each material with a line saying the final quote comes after a measure. Put that range next to the quote form so the next step is right there, and you filter out the inquiries that were never going to fit your rates.
Four things carry most of the weight: photos of finished floors grouped by material, a line under each job saying what it was and roughly where, a separate page for each service you sell, and a quote form that asks for square footage, rooms, and material before you call back. The form is the part worth spending time on, because every question it answers is a question you skip on the phone. Yola's help center walks through adding fields and setting where the submissions go.
Yes, and it's the part you'll do most. Open the page, drop the new photos into the gallery block, type a line under each one, and republish. There is no ticket to file and no developer to wait on, which matters when a job you finished on Friday is the best thing in your portfolio by Monday.
Yes. Yola's free plan gives you one website and two pages with 100 MB of storage, enough to test a gallery and a quote form before paying, then you move up to a paid plan from $9.95/mo when you want more room. Among the others, Wix has a free tier with Wix branding and GoDaddy has a limited one that cannot use a custom domain, while Squarespace and Duda offer 14-day trials only, both at $19.00/mo after that.
It decides whether your gallery is worth having. Homeowners tend to look up an installer on their phone, often in the room they want redone, so a page that needs pinching and zooming loses the inquiry before the photos load. A mobile-optimized site reflows text and keeps buttons tappable at any screen size. Yola's help center has guidance on checking your content across screen sizes before you publish.
It comes down to what you want to spend your evenings on. Wix and Squarespace both display photos beautifully, and Wix is genuinely close on setup speed thanks to its AI generator, but Wix expects a manual pass on the mobile layout and Squarespace starts at $19.00 USD/mo with no free plan. With Yola you fill in ready-made blocks, set your own form fields, and pay $9.95/mo, which is usually the better trade when the site needs to go up between jobs rather than get designed.