Squarespace SEO
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Is SEO for squarespace sites any good?
I've had a blog for a while now and looking at the stats, i don't seem to get much traffic.Wandering what it is really down to because when i had a wordpress blog, i decent traffic and not much has really changed. I know i had a few plugins on that site that helped with SEO but still.
- martinadolfsson0
I'm having similar issues with my Squarespace site. I was in touch with Squarespace support a while ago and they pretty much said that the SEO was by default always optimized on website which I'm having a hard time believing.
Would be curious to hear other peoples experience.
- display0
Reason i ask is because i'm about to start a product and shop and if the search engines don't pick it up then i will need to pursue a different platform.
Shame really because the i love Squarespace's CMS and features
- go shopify - had a lot of success on various projects with that - and its a better ecommerce platform.fadein11
- hotroddy0
in my experience squarespace is terrible to customize. limited access to code. someone please tell me otherwise.
- < this. wanted to love itbrandelec
- It's mostly just performance-killing CSS overrides unless you turn on develop mode, which isn't much better than just rolling your own server.evilpeacock
- in develop mode.. what is the language?hotroddy
- Miguex1
I don't know about SEO, nor do I care much about it, however.
If you are thinking of doing an ecommerce site, I would suggest trying shopify. squarespace is REALLY nice, I started the process there but never finished because their payment options suck, I was already using paypal on my wordpress shop and they make it really difficult.I saw a youtube review comparing squarespace and shopify and decided to give it a chance instead, I always discriminated against shopify because their logo sucks (kinda like with Under Armour) but after I finished the process, I'm really happy with it and don't want to go back to squarespace.
- display0
i'll give this a try then thanks
- trooperbill0
square space sucks. it has duplicate content built in and no way to change that.
- rupedixon0
I've been working on a squarespace site for a friend recently and I wouldn't touch it myself given the choice.
In my view organic SEO is the way forward (decent HTML, proper H tags, alt text etc.) and Squarespace makes it extremely time consuming to do these things properly. It can be done, but it feels like an after thought in their UX.
Their templates are very restrictive too...
- so are you suggesting a custom theme in wordpress?
not even shopify?display - "Organic" SEO has always been the best way. Employer moved my semantic HTML site to Squarespace. Now they pay "experts" to do what old site did automatically.evilpeacock
- I have no experience of shopify, so I can't say - I'm just saying avoid squarespacerupedixon
- so are you suggesting a custom theme in wordpress?