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Blogging on Squarespace: The Ultimate Guide for Small Business Owners
Are you a coach, creative, or other small business owner looking to enhance your online presence and attract more leads to your blog and website? Squarespace is a great option if you're in the process of deciding on platforms to build your website. As a credible website builder that offers elegant and user-friendly templates…
13 Squarespace SEO Tips to Rank at the Top of Google [Updated for 2024]
As a coach or creative entrepreneur, you know the importance of having a great website. But what good is a website if no one can find it? That's where search engine optimization (SEO) comes in. In this post, I’ll explain the top Squarespace SEO tips for ranking in the Google top 10 for coaches and creatives…
Reasons to Use an Events Page on Your Squarespace Website
Whether you’re a service provider, product seller, photographer, or some other kind of business owner, the time might come when you realize you’d like to create a Squarespace events page for an event you’re planning. As a website designer, I love encouraging my clients to think outside the box when it comes to events. If most of your…
How to Connect Mailchimp to Squarespace
If you’re currently using (or thinking about using) the Mailchimp platform to grow your business and connect with customers, there’s a good chance that you will also want to integrate your Mailchimp account with your Squarespace website. Today, this Squarespace and Showit website designer is detailing exactly how to connect the two—and…
How to Add Anchor Links to Your Squarespace Website
As a Squarespace website designer, anchor links—also known as “page jumps”—are a fun feature I like to include on client websites when it makes sense from a user experience. They allow for more specific links, and make navigating a website easier overall! Today, I’m explaining exactly what they are and how to use them, so you can implement…
Squarespace vs Showit: Which is Better?
As a website designer, I am asked ALL the time for a comparison between Squarespace and Showit when it comes to website creation for business owners. And, the truth is, I don’t have one simple recommendation. Each platform comes with its pros and cons, which are all worth mentioning and taking into account when choosing which platform..
Is Squarespace Easy to Use?
Simple and straightforward, check! Powerful editing tools, check! Intuitive, check! Wide variety of templates, check! Customization options, check! Squarespace ticks all the right boxes for online business owners who need strong website building options, eCommerce utilities, easy-to-use marketing tools, and just about anything they desire to…
How to Add a Title Tag to Your Squarespace Pages
Curious about what the heck a title tag is and why it’s important? As an SEO strategist for online business owners and consultant for fellow website designers, this is an aspect of optimizing websites that is commonly looked over. While it most likely won’t make or break your website, title tags certainly have the power to increase your Google search…
Health Resonates: Squarespace Website Design
Today I’m taking you behind the scenes of my Squarespace website design project with Tara of Health Resonates. Health Resonates is a wellness and beauty brand located in Portland, Maine. The space runs as a co-op for service providers and Tara provides massage and holistic skincare services on site (in additional to travel options). She sells…
How to Delete Blog Categories in Squarespace
Categories are a great way to group similar blog posts together, whether by topic or by guest author. For some reason, it seems much more obvious and intuitive to add categories in Squarespace than it is to delete them. I hope you find this tutorial helpful! Here are the step by step directions…
A Sneak Peek Inside My Squarespace SEO Course
I’m so excited to be diving into details about my course - SEO Strategy Simplified. It first launched in April 2020, and I’m so excited to see the growth of all my students since then. In this post, I want to discuss more about how this course came about, what’s inside, and what others are saying. This was truly a labor of love. If you’ve ever built out a…
How to Build a Squarespace Website Quickly
Maybe you have a business idea you want to launch ASAP. Maybe your business experienced unexpected growth and you need a website—like, now. Maybe you just don’t want to wait weeks to have a stunning and professional internet home base for your business. Regardless of the reason, there are a variety of cases in which you may want…
How Much Does a Squarespace SEO Expert Cost?
When it comes time to hire a Squarespace SEO expert, there are a lot of things to consider—the investment being one of them. SEO stands for search engine optimization, and can mean the difference between getting tons of relevant traffic to your website every day—and getting no visitors at all. For more info, you can check out my blog…
Squarespace Fonts and How to Change Them
While it may seem like colors and images are the only important design components on your Squarespace website, fonts actually play a HUGE role, as well. Fonts can convey mood and tone, and affect readability—making font choice a big one. Luckily, Squarespace provides many Google fonts available for free use right inside its platform. Today…
How to Add a Contributor to Squarespace Websites
If you have a team you are working with to manage your website, they will need access to the backend of your website—enabling them to post blog posts, update important pages, and add links, and more. However, many business owners end up giving their team their website password in order to accomplish this—which isn’t always…
Squarespace for Designers—Is It a Good Platform to Use With Clients?
I have been a website designer (specifically, a Squarespace website designer) for more than 4 years now—and one of my most-asked questions is why I specialize in Squarespace websites (as opposed to WordPress, Shopify, etc…) The short answer? Because both I and my clients love it. The long answer is going to be much longer than a sentence…