Welcome to the Blog
Showit | Squarespace | Website Design | Brand Design | SEO | Portfolio | Business
6 Lessons From Publishing 100 Blog Posts
Over the past 3+ years, I’ve published 100 blog posts. It’s so crazy to actually write that out on the page. Even though I’ve been blogging for a while, it wasn’t until a little over a year ago that I truly started to take blogging seriously. I started publishing more content each month and made my blog a priority over Instagram. Don’t get me wrong...
How to Identify the Perfect Blog Post Content for Your Online Business
Do you have a blog for your business? Chances are that if you’re reading this post it’s one of two things… Either you’re looking to start a blog and want to make sure you’re going at it the right way. Or maybe you already have a blog but want to spruce it up by being more intentional and specific about the types of content you’re adding to your website...
Have a Podcast for Your Business? Here’s 4 Reasons to Ditch Your Show Notes
Adding show notes (bullet points about what you’ve covered on your last podcast episode) to your website is a common practice among all types of content creators and business owners - but it’s actually costing you instead of helping you. I absolutely love this topic because SO many business owners with podcasts miss out on this…
5 Essential Sidebar Sections for Your Squarespace Blog
A sidebar (the strip of extra content on either the left or right side of a page on a blog) is extremely valuable to your website - and, if you don’t already have one, now is the time to create one! You can see mine on the right of this screen ;) As a Squarespace and Showit website designer, I’ve designed many sidebars for my clients. Whether you…
8 Quick Squarespace Website Changes That Improve Your Bounce Rate
As a Squarespace website designer who places a heavy focus on SEO, the bounce rate of my website is something I keep in mind while designing. In short, bounce rate is the rate of people who visit your website’s home page (or another page) and immediately leave your website without visiting any other pages (essentially bouncing!) You can…
3 Signs You Need to Hire a Squarespace SEO Expert
Getting started with SEO can be very overwhelming at first. You don’t know where to find the best information and half the time, it feels like you’re reading a foreign language. Trust me, I’ve been there. When I got my job at an SEO agency, it took me months to actually learn what the heck I was doing and why it mattered. Unfortunately, I didn’t have the…
How to Secure Your Squarespace Website with SSL
After all the time and energy you’ve invested into your Squarespace website, the last thing you want is for it to lack security. Lacking the proper SSL security can leave your website vulnerable to hackers and impersonators who not only threaten the safety of your website, but also threaten the safety of your customers and clients and their person…
AMP and Blogging with Squarespace: What You Need to Know
If you are currently blogging with Squarespace, you’re likely always on the hunt for ways you can optimize your site on all devices and get more views via search engines like Google. One lesser-known (but fantastic) option for optimizing your Squarespace website and blog on mobile devices is AMP, which stands for Accelerated Mobile Pages. What…
7 Places to do SEO Keyword Research for Your Blog
If you’re here, it probably means you’re getting serious about blogging. Because the hard truth is that without doing keyword research, there’s a high chance your blog content will never get seen by the people who need it most. That’s right - without SEO (search engine optimization), your posts will be floating out in the abyss of the interwebs. If you…