IgorAvidon

On 1/2/2024 at 8:58 AM, paul2009 said:

Squarespace has a built in feature that allows you to hide pages (and collections) from search engines. You'll find this setting in the settings panel of each page, within the SEO tab. To find this, hover over a page title in the PAGES panel and click the gear icon next to it.

The problem is not with Squarespace URLs - it's actually with pages that DON'T exist on the Squarespace site, but DID exist on the prior site.

Case in point: we've moved multiple clients from WordPress to Squarespace. In each case, old WP URLs are actively being crawled by Google to this day. We need the option to disallow Google from crawling folders like /wp-includes/ and /wp-content/ because that content is simply no longer there.

P.S.

A 301 redirect is not an appropriate solution here because the old URLs are spammy content caused by a hack of the old website. Squarespace does not offer an option to set a 410 server response on an individual URL level  either (another feature Squarespace should absolutely offer to site administrators).

Hey folks,

I operate an SEO agency in Los Angeles that specializes in Squarespace SEO. We help our clients' websites rank well for local and global terms, and we use creative content strategy to grow relevant traffic & brands' search visibility. All of our Squarespace client sites rank at the top of search results for their primary keywords. We also moved our agency site from Wordpress to Squarespace earlier this year - primarily to prove that Squarespace sites can rank very well nationally.

I'm looking forward to helping folks understand the Squarespace platform's ability to rank well based on our expertise!

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.

It may takes days (and sometimes weeks) before Google recrawls and reindexes your pages with the new title & description. The greater the authority of your site, the more often it'll get crawled and the new info displayed in search results.