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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…

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How to Format Your Blog Posts for SEO and Optimal User Experience

If you’re using blogging as a marketing strategy for your small business (here’s 7 reasons why you should), you need to consider how both your dream clients and Google are reading your blog posts. Google takes user experience into account, so how you set up your blog posts visually affects SEO and ranking. Have no idea what SEO, or search…

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3 Creative Ways to Use Squarespace Summary Blocks

One of the best aspects of Squarespace’s website building platform is its summary block feature. If you’re not familiar with them already, Squarespace summary blocks display your content in easy-to-navigate groups, whether it’s blog posts, products, events, or something else entirely. Summary blocks can be displayed as grids, carousels, lists, or…

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SEO Case Study: ~200% Increase in Pageviews in the Past Year

Today, I’m breaking down how I went from 0 traffic to 5000+ pageviews a month. Specifically, I had 36,000 pageviews in the last year - a 192% increase from the year prior. Crazy, right?! And guess what...it’s all from blogging combined with SEO (search engine optimization). In this post, I want to break down my journey to this point because I know it…

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Squarespace Categories and Tags: What You Need to Know

If you use Squarespace to host your business’s blog (which you totally should, BTW…) you should also be taking advantage of Squarespace categories and tags. Not only do they help organize your website for your own reference, but they also make it SO much easier for visitors and Google to navigate your site - which is one of the most crucial…

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How to Repurpose Content For Your Business Blog

As an entrepreneur, there’s going to come a time when you realize that you can’t be everywhere at once - and that having a podcast, blog, YouTube channel, AND an social media presence can quickly become overwhelming. How can you possibly come up with different content for each different platform every single month? I hate to break it to…

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Squarespace Blog Comments - Should You Enable Them?

If you’ve been blogging with Squarespace or thinking about starting your blog, you may have wondered about the importance of comments. It’s a blog setting that many business owners gloss over, which is why I’m putting together this post as a resource. Comments might seem insignificant, but in this post I’m breaking down why comments are…

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5 Reasons to Blog on Squarespace

If you’ve read my past blog posts, you know how much I stress that you should be blogging for your business. (Hint: It’s a lot.) A blog is great for creating long-lasting content that attracts potential clients by giving them value before they ever officially start working with you, building trust and a positive rapport from the very beginning of your…

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Paige Brunton’s Square Secrets Course Review

I’m so excited to be publishing this blog post review! To be honest, this is extremely overdue. So first off...who is Paige Brunton? Paige is a Squarespace expert and educator on all things Squarespace. She’s been designing for years and put out a DIY Squarespace course back in 2018 called Square Secrets. Since then, she’s also created a course…

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Is Squarespace Good for SEO?

I’m guessing you’ve stumbled onto this blog post because you’re trying to figure out whether or not to use Squarespace for your website. And one of the key factors you want to know is whether or not you can customize the SEO settings. If you’re not familiar with SEO, it stands for search engine optimization. It’s the process of increasing...

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6 Reasons to Hire a Squarespace SEO Expert

If you’re an online business owner - coach, consultant, service provider, creatives - you can benefit from the power of SEO. Chances are that you already know what SEO is if you’re reading this, but just in case you have no idea what SEO entails, here’s what you need to know...SEO stands for search engine optimization. It’s the process of setting up your…

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Is There a Squarespace SEO Plugin?

Many business owners looking to do SEO, or search engine optimization, on their Squarespace website often wonder, “Is there a SEO plugin for Squaresspace?” Or they’re curious if there is a Yoast SEO plugin for Squarespace. The short answer is no. But before you exit outta here, let me explain this in more detail...What Yoast SEO is. Yoast SEO is a…

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7 Reasons to Be Blogging for Your Business

Many business owners skip over blogging and SEO, when in reality it is a massive missed opportunity. Many coaches, creatives, and other service based businesses think blogging is dead, which gives you a chance to capitalize on it. Pssstttt...blogging is not dead. I know multi 6 figure entrepreneurs who have built their businesses off of blogging…

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8 Squarespace SEO Tips for Photographers

Are you a photographer looking to increase the search engine ranking of your Squarespace website? Well I’m proud to say you’ve come to the right place. If you’re not familiar with SEO, it stands for search engine optimization. It’s the process of giving your website the best possible chance of ranking high in search engines like Google. If you’re a…

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6 Examples of Spammy SEO Tactics to Stay Away From

When it comes to SEO (search engine optimization), there’s a lot of information online. It can be overwhelming to research and hard to know what to believe and what sources are credible. As someone who worked in the SEO industry for 2 years working on billion dollar global brand accounts and celebrity accounts, it’s upsetting when I see…

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What is SEO and How Does it Work?

If you landed inside this post, I’m guessing you’re wondering what SEO actually is? For starters, SEO stands for search engine optimization. In simple terms, SEO is about adjusting certain content and technical pieces of your website and blog to give it the best possible chance of ranking in Google. Many online business owners think it’s just about…

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How to Add a Sidebar to Your Squarespace Blog in Brine

Have a blog on Squarespace but you’re not sure how to create a sidebar? Spoiler alert - you don’t have to be using a template that has a built in sidebar. You can create your own! I use the Rally template, which is part of the Brine family. If you look at its capabilities, you would see that it doesn’t naturally offer a sidebar. There is a very easy workaround…

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