Move your site from Google Sites to yaya

What moves and what does not

yaya reads the public text, headings and image references on your live Google Site and drafts a new site from them. Embedded Google Forms, Calendar and Maps do not move. Rebuild those in yaya or link to them.

Before you start

• The Google account that owns the site and a yaya account.
• Access to the domain registrar if you use a custom domain.
• About 30 minutes, plus DNS wait time.

Move your site

1. Open your published site and copy its address from the browser bar.
2. Put the site in a top-level My Drive folder and export that folder with Google Takeout as a backup.
3. Save the images you want from the site.
4. Open yaya and start onboarding. Paste the address under Already have a website? (optional) and click Import from my site.
5. Read the description under What does your business do? and fix it.
6. Pick your business type, location and language, then click Next.
7. Review the draft, upload your images, and publish. See Publish your site.

Point your domain to yaya

In Google Sites, open Settings, then Custom domains, and click the trash icon next to the domain once yaya is ready. Google Workspace admins can also map a custom URL in the admin console. Then follow Move a domain to yaya.

Use Switch DNS with no downtime to order the changes.

Fix common problems

The import cannot read my site. yaya only reads pages anyone can open. Publish the site to the public or paste the text.

Takeout does not list my site. Sites on a shared drive cannot be exported with Takeout. Move it to My Drive first.