TheDetourEffect

Did you ever figure out if there's a fix for #2?

Hi @TheDetourEffect. I've seen it take almost 4 months for Google to stop surfacing Squarespace AMP URLs in search. 

This post needs to stay on the front page till SQSP figures this out. Anyone with new developments on this thread please share your results.

Yes it looks like Squarespace have basically condemned the entirety of their customer base to the SEO doldrums and for those that rely on organic search that could ultimately mean business failure.
Their radio silence on this topic is deafening.
If I was in the dev team at Squarespace, I'd be focusing on nothing else, yet here we are with no obvious changes or transparency on this issue. Just a glimmer of hope in the form of comms regarding this could put minds at ease but they'd rather let this blazing dumpster fire burn. 
In fact, better communication from Squarespace about anything at all dev related would be deeply appreciated. More evidence that there is someone working on anything at all would be a huge shift. 

Any update on when we can see Squarespace update their platform for web core vitals and see an increase in speed. 

As you can see from the Google Search Console for my website the past weeks, everything suddenly dropped, as well as I received messages from Google that all of my domains needed improvement due to CLS issues.
Earlier this week I contacted Squarespace support and requested that they could provide me with an answer as to why even blank SS pages received CLS issues and poor rankings.
The interesting thing is that only SS say that Google Pagespeed Insights are not optimized for the Squarespace CMS. But the fact is that the code of SS is messy and large compared to other CMS systems. And I argued that Google use their Search Console to penalize our websites, as they don't care that it's a CMS platform. 
So after several e-mail after I raged a bit about them sending my standard responses answering questions I never even asked, as well as them never actually answering my actual questions. They told me eventually after some supervisor answered me, that they would file a ticket to the developers (I don't know if they actually did it).
BUT...now, some days later, my website is ranking better when it comes to the CLS issues, and my reports in Search Console are getting better. In this time I tried to disable Anchor ads, and remove ads from the top of my page without any change is the PageSpeed Insights. On the 23rd I activated the anchor ads again, and all of a sudden everything is looking to come back - Fingers Crossed!!

 

So basically what are you saying is switch platforms if you want a website that performs better. 🙂

Andrew, I'd be interested in a plugin like this for my photography site because I have lots of images to share, but don't want to impede my page load time and also don't want it to look glitchy when the images load as you scroll. Thanks!

Actually, sorry, I think I'm wrong - I replaced the term 'nofollow' in your code with 'sponsored' instead, but when I did "inspect" it still said 'nofollow', so maybe it wasn't working? I think what I was seeing under "inspect" when I thought it was working, was actually a result of trying out this code in my footer injection. When I went into there and replaced nofollow with sponsored, and then tried to inspect again, it did update to sponsored.
Next to where it says 'a[href*="amazon.com"], a[href*="amzn.to"], I wrote in the following so that it would work for avantlink and travel payouts too:
a[href*="alnk.to"], a[href*="avantlink.com"], a[href*="tp.media"]'
And now when I inspect my avantlink links in the image card, they are rel=sponsored in addition to my amazon links. So I think I'm set?! Unless anyone has an opinion that this code is not ideal for whatever reason. 
(Just writing this all out in case anyone else has the same question and comes across this thread)!
If this means I can stop manually doing a markdown block to insert nofollow/sponsored code individually for every single link I am going to jump for joy. I'm a little nervous to stop doing that though since I'm in the habit, I'm not sure if I trust my footer code injection.

Hi all,
Now I've connected Smart SEO to our website and realised that it's a tool for optimising online stores.
So not really useful for "normal" websites.
Hope that helps - maybe you've found another tool / extension that could be useful.
Thanks, Sibylle

I have the exact same issue! I've contacted customer support but it didn't help. I'd love to know if you have found a solution 🙂

Did you figure this out? My unique CNAME code is also missing from Squarespace. It is located in my GoDaddy DNS Records, strangely, but I don't know how because within my Squarespace DNS Settings, only the www CNAME exists. 
My site works fine but it still matters because I'm having an issue elsewhere and the Squarespace support people keep telling me the missing CNAME is the reason, and I need to add it into my GoDaddy DNS. But it already IS located in my GoDaddy DNS Records. The place it is actually missing from is Squarespace

That's exactly the point where I'm up to. I could not find any solution to this either.
 It's extraordinary that you can't exclude posts and only include one category... It's SUCH an oversight. VERY annoying. Thanks for your reply. 

Having the option within the WYSIWYG editor to set the appropriate rel= info is actually very important. The rel=nofollow and rel=sponsored attributes play a critical role for Google. We love the Squarespace platform, but this simple option missing is a significant problem.

Oh ok well I went googling and found out I don't have to put the analytics code in my css for squarespace if it's already in my External API. I removed it and now my wrap text code works again. Solved! Thank you!