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On 8/8/2023 at 5:43 AM, BenCircular said:

As a webdeveloper of 14 years experience, I 100% disagree. A robots.txt is extremely important to SEO and given Squarespace has intimate knowledge of their own systems that it would be impossible for everyday users to know they should absolutely set the default robots.txt. 

You need to have more trust in a company that literally creates and runs millions of website rather than some article you read online....context is key here. You get the benefit of their expertise, and essentially they are saving you from killing your SEO in 100s of different way by having a misconfigured robots.txt or missing configurations because you don't know all the paths Squarespace has available.

You have asked a lot of questions that if you don't know the answers already, you should not be making changes to a robots.txt and as you will ruin your website, despite what you think. 

Ideally, having a section in the admin with sufficient warnings that allows a section that is appended to the default robots.txt could be good, but then again it would be a very advanced feature that user would need to understand some real important why and why nots to add pages there.

I would have to disagree with you on this - I have worked in e-commerce and SEO for 15 years and being able to control your own robots.txt is a pretty essential functionality. 

I'm not so interested on what Squarespace chooses to not index by default, I trust them on that too, but I have additional pages on my site that I want to be able to block from being indexed/crawled and as far as I can see I'm not able to define this and without robots access I don't have the power to. 

There are many people out here using squarespace sites who aren't developers, but have a lot of web experience and do need to be able to manage the SEO of their sites properly. If Squarespace wants to claim to be a good platform for SEO then they need to be providing the tools for businesses to make that happen.

I've worked with many major e-commerce and web platforms and consider access to this to be a very standard feature these days.

+1 for this feature as well! I need to take a deposit on bookings and accept the balance of the payment later. Has anyone found a plugin that can help with this or investigated building one?

Would be interested to work with someone on the definition and build of such a plugin if anyone is interested...

I would also love an answer to this - I want to track additional events on my Squarespace site based on interactions with certain form blocks, to be able to mark them as conversions. Struggling to find anything online that suggests that's possible. 

I'm using 7.1 and GA4

I found the same and this is SO frustrating. But, you can use a really hacky workaround:

• Export the 7.0 site blog
• Import this to Wordpress (you just need a basic free blog account)
• Once it's imported, export the Wordpress site
• Import the Wordpress export file into Squarespace 7.1

The page layouts won't be great and I haven't got the images across, but at least I have all the posts with their text and can save a lot of time and copy/paste errors! 

If you have multiple blog pages in your site, you can even export multiple blogs from your 7.0 site into 1 wordpress site, and import them all back into Squarepace together. And then recategorise them into separate blogs again like this.

Note: If you want to maintain your authors on the blog posts make sure to have an exactly matching user in Wordpress for each author so it can map them