Starting a brand new website on any platform can be overwhelming. However, there a couple of tasks that every new Squarespace user should check off their todo list before diving in to the content and design customization.
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The First Todo For Any New Squarespace User
Negative SEO from Robots.txt: Avoid These Disallowed Words or Suffer!
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 Journal Titles and Urls | Quick Tip
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
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 Help: For Whom is it Optimized?
The things that make you go hmm…
Just chalk this post up to a token weekend fluff piece, but something has bugged me for a while. Squarespace is a platform all about usability. Everyone and anyone can get a halfway decent site up in a matter of minutes. Their customer support is excellent for the most part. But there is one thing (ok, there’s actually a few but this one is bothering me most for the moment) that I just think is so bazaar and silly at times, Continue reading →
