Negative SEO from Robots.txt: Avoid These Disallowed Words or Suffer!

by Holly Ezell on May 16, 2012 in Squarespace SEO with No comments
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How Squarespace Robots.txt File Negatively Impacts Search Engine Optimization

Because of the peculiar robots.txt file (yes, I’m still talking about this stupid robots.txt file again!) that is included in every user’s website and the way it’s set up without escaping the subfolders, you could very easily keep important pages and journal urls from being crawled and properly indexed by the search engines. Let’s get straight to the gory details!
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Squarespace For Dummies – OMG!

by Holly Ezell on May 11, 2012 in Squarespace Basics, Squarespace Tutorials with 1 Comment
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Squarespace for Dummies on your Amazon Kindle


I came across this Squarespace For Dummies Squarespace For Dummies OMG! photo book last night on Amazon! I was skeptical at first because there are so many of these books that seem to be a real for Dummies book and turns out they just rephrase or flat out misspell the series to trick people into buying their flim flam 10 page essay on whatever they are trying to peddle at the moment. However, this is not the case for Kris Black’s Squarespace for Dummies Book. Kris has been creating websites with Squarespace since 2004, has his own design company, and worked for Squarespace as a customer support specialist. As a bonus, he’s also a fellow South Cackalackian.

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Squarespace Journal Titles and Urls | Quick Tip

by Holly Ezell on May 6, 2012 in Squarespace SEO, Squarespace Tutorials with No comments
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Changing your Journal Post Titles may be hazardous to your Blog!

One of the main problems I see when helping Squarespace users is the enormous amount of 404 errors found in Google Webmaster tools. Usually, they either have very few if any, or they have half as many error pages as they do blog posts. And here’s the reason why- the title you create for your journal entry is used as part of your url. Here’s an example:
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Squarespace Case Study | SEO, Categories, and Robots.txt

by Holly Ezell on May 2, 2012 in Squarespace Basics, Squarespace SEO with 3 Comments
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You better check your site, before you wreck your site

Ok, perhaps I’ve overstated myself a bit with that headline, but I do want to bring something to your attention that I think is very important about how Squarespace directs search engines to crawl your website. We all have a robots.txt file which guides search engines like google to index your site and essentially how your website is found and viewed by searchers.
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Squarespace 6 Help Videos and Pages

by Holly Ezell on April 28, 2012 in Promotions / Announcements, Squarespace 6 Beta with No comments
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New Squarespace 6 Videos and Help Documents

Squarespace 6 beta is making steady improvements. They now have a help section devoted to Squarespace v6 Squarespace 6 Help Videos and Pages photo with instructional videos and more FAQs. Topics include help with galleries, changing templates, importing content to Squarespace, mapping a domain and a range of general settings tips. It’s not near as extensive as the version 5 help, but it’s a great start. I personally find the videos the most helpful if you are just starting as a beta tester. I don’t know if it’s just me, but I tend to stumble on to these things. Perhaps this has been available for a while? I think there needs to be a better change tracker tool so everyone is on the same page about when new features become available. Until then, keep checking back or follow the Squarespace Plugins RSS feed!

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A good start to the Squarespace 6 Help files!


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