GlynMusica

This thread seems to be full of spam but in case it isn't GTM can be added with SETTINGS / ADVANCED / CODE INJECTION / And you can add to the header and footer as per GTM instructions. We actually add it to the footer to help with page loading times, and because we don't have any codes that need to fire in the header inside our GTM. You can also add this to the header: <link rel='preconnect' href="//googletagmanager.com" crossorigin>

As you are all getting stuff in Google drive it would seem that the problem is not with the functionality but the email addresses, or more specifically: the DNS records of yourdomain.com as relevant for sending mail. My advice to all here would be to use the following tool, https://www.mail-tester.com/, There is a limit on usages to I think 5 per day but there are others such as https://mxtoolbox.com/emailhealth That can also provide a backfill. Rather than do an explanation of the problems you might be encountering - but at a guess I'm going to say DKIM, SPFT and/or mail relay settings - my suggestion is to run a test and then go and fix those issues. Consider that both Gmail and Outlook have some pretty strict rules for domains sending emails, and your own provider might have some extra measures in place. Therefore, my suggestion would be to fix the problems based on the reports and then if you still have problem ask your domain name registrar. SS also has some specific records to add to your domain DNS which may need combining with existing mail records on the server. Don't worry this stuff is pretty easy if you take your time with it and learn about each step. I am running SS on newsletter and mailing list and have no problems with deliverability. I have a 10/10 report for the mail-tester options. Good luck!

Let's zoom out here! It looks like the issue is that you are worried about a canonical error? Canonical is a clue for search engines in case you have multiple pages - for example in an e-commerce view where you might have computers indexed under a product category but it might also appear under a processor type category, so you would canonical the information architecture you wanted to prioritise on one of the pages. Tools such as the ahrefs one are going to go through your website and crawl against a quite limited and subject to errors response. If you google info: https://www.gravityonestudio.com/home you will not see it in the index, instead you will see this page: info: https://www.gravityonestudio.com/ If you browser this: vies-source:https://www.gravityonestudio.com/home you can find the canonical on this page pointing to https://www.gravityonestudio.com/ That means that while the AHREF is throwing a wobbler on your website, Google is quite happily understanding what you are doing and indexing the website properly. I don't know what @meganmedaris is the problem you have with your site, but I don't see an SEO problem here, just a software tool telling a webmaster to jump through hoops for no apparent reason. From my side it does seem that SS handles this pretty well, straight out the box as it has done for our own website. If you have something more specific and it's something we can help with, drop a message here and when we check in again, we'll see what your problem is 🙂 G.

Mailchimp is an industry leading newsletter platform. SS is for a different audience. You can connect MailChimp to SS and my advice would be to do that. You will never get that feature set on SS. Just helping you out based on what I see and know of both.

This is actually really quite difficult but in practice: 1. robots.txt would tell the search engines where not to index - so you could put all your PDFs inside a folder and then exclude that folder. Problem is that users could just look at robots.txt and find where you are hiding them. 2. Remove from site-map will again stop it being indexed in Google. 3. Don't put them on a server!! 4. I don't know if you add a digital product in SquareSpace in a shop whether this means that the product is not added to a sitemap or included in Google Search (I would be interested to know that). For me the best way to protect files on a traditioanl server is to use htacess and hard-code a password protect on the folder at the server level. No-one gets in. Hope this helps somehow.

site:https://www.singoutgeelong.com.au it's already indexed. The problem will be the SEO. If the website was positioned well before the sitemap issue I would give it a couple of weeks to see whether the website rankings stabilise before doing any work. G.

The newsletter is going to arrive at an inbox. I would suggest you simply put a piece of text nice and clearly in the newsletter suggesting that the person sends it on. Only if the newsletter opened in a web-browser on a Squarespace managed hosting space would such a piece of functionality be available, or a third-party tool that provides that as a service, but as a technical person I think the hoops people would have to jump through in order to make it work, would cause more friction than just telling people to forward it. Best way to get people to share your newsletter is to make it so amazingly special that a reader will want to share it with their friends because a) they care about someone else or b) it makes them look good by sharing. Invest in your newsletter with unique content and value, and this will be the fuel for the encouragement of sharing! G.

Likely causes are to do with mail settings in your Client. Possible you will need to make sure you are sending your mail using the SMTP server for your domain. Ask whoever gives you the email address functionality. Then you can add domain name records to you domain to fix this problem with these links. https://support.google.com/a/answer/174124?hl=en https://rejoiner.com/resources/email-authentication/

i don't understand, this is not an error, the implementation is perfect. When URL loads with parameter "?category=Biodegradable" the canonical is set to "/food-packaging-all". This is perfect. You might want to canonical sub-category links which are not rendered in the browser URL because of AJAX but that is a completely different question. G.

There's a history of carrot and donkey with Google generally sold under the auspices of getting more free traffic if you jump through x hoop. SEO implementations is littered with these carcasses, speed is one they got to stick more. Not saying fast sites are not important, but let's be clear that there are plenty of slow websites running paid-ads.

Think there are improvements that can be made, but I also think allot of this drive to speed at all costs is just Google's way of saving their indexing costs. Consider that on my website the things that slow down the page most of all are Google Assets, which I have little opportunity to optimise!

My advice would be to write to the registrar and ask them. It looks like you have two SPF records that you need to combine. I can't show you mine exactly but I had three, maybe you can hack yours together based on this example: "v=spf1 include:spf.xxxx.xxxxx.com include:_spf.xxxxxxx.com include:squarespace-mail.com -all" I use this tool which works great, there is a 5 time usage limit per day (or 3) to test out email. There is also a similar service on MXtools. https://www.mail-tester.com/ G

Some registrars use the domain. Try and create the record using yourdomain.com as your @

Okay this takes it of SS, which is not ideal, but it will accomplish your goals I think, but wil require that you are using Google Analytics and that you have a confirmation page when there is a subscription completed. Assuming yes then here is what you would do: 1. Set a Goal in Google Analytics, such the destination page that matches the URL of your confirmation page. 2. Setup an email alert using this page to tell you how https://support.google.com/analytics/answer/1033021?hl=en, That way you get your automation the way you want it. G.

I am 99% sure that just as with other CMS provides, Facebook CAPI implementation can only be done by SquareSpace themselves. Not sure if the Developer route open more doors, but I have already written to SS and asked them about when they will roll-out CAPI, so I suggest you do that too! Considering that a data payload using an Access Token attached to conversion points on the website needs to be fired with certain events such as purchases on buttons etc. I am hoping they are working on it and that we will just see either being asked to add the Access Token from Google Business Manager, or that it will be even easier as they do a straight partner implementation like Facebook and you can just connect from Facebook Business Manager without doing anything. In terms of timeline IOS has not rolled out it's update and Facebook still has to release an events priority manager for Business Manager so perhaps SS is waiting on this before making systematic changes. G.

This is a very frustrating situation not least because Google is very hands-off when it comes to telling you what the problem is and that even when you speak to Google Ads a support technician might be able to tell you everything is all fine and then the robot comes back and finds the error. We have had a situation like this before and it was actually due to a third-party code that was running on a website that Google had deemed to contain code that could be used for unhealthy purposes. IE It was nothing to do with the ads at all. Therefore in this situation the first thing I would advise you to do is stop all third-party codes from running on your website. Google code will not be a problem. After you have done this, request a review of your ads and see if that fixes it. If it does, then you can find ways of re-adding the codes one by one back into your pages. You might also check to see whether you are running any out of date libraries, for example JQUERY updated quite recently and I know that this caused a number of wordpress websites to go offline. Frustrating, I know, but you should be able to fix it.

Hi, it looks like this got fixed looking at Google Search results.

Greetings. Canonical's are helpful but not every search engine will use them so what they promise is not always guaranteed. The risk of URL duplication and other impacts are still present. The best way to fix this and be sure that search engine spiders are being forced down a URL path, is to use the redirection options, https://support.squarespace.com/hc/en-us/articles/205815308-URL-redirects, I can't be sure what will be appropriate in your own situation, and when implementing redirection you need to be sure you are not setting up infinite loops. This might happen based on the situation you describe where the default SS home URL is /home and you set a redirect to /. I'd probably open a virtual chat with support to ask them before doing that, they are always very helpful. In the days before CMS you would be able to set your homepage URL as part of server settings, which would mean that the domains would be displayed without /home /index /default pages showing. You can use an online search engine simulator to get the response headers from these two pages, ie domain.com/ and domain.com/home and unless you are literally getting copies of the pages indexed, you can ignore the AHREFS tool and trust an SEO (which I know might not sound promising!) I hope that helps.

Thanks for this precision Paul. Am I right in saying that while most modern browsers will support WOFF, that the inclusions mentioned in this article will mean that some of the earlier apple devices will still be able to render fonts and so there is no harm in including them? I had a case in the last 6 months where I had this issue come up, which is why I am asking you. To the poster and if they are using Google Analytics, my advice would be to check under OS and Browsers to find out how people are connecting. G.

Remember to put all the webfont versions in your code. Apple is a pain, I have this as a bookmark as it answers all, and works too! https://www.pagecloud.com/blog/how-to-add-custom-fonts-to-any-website

Yes, it's already a huge problem but the ad-networks are not talking about it. I've also written to SquareSpace because it should not be too hard getting Conversion API working with SS websites. Consider that there are 3rd party plugins for wordpress that enable this functionality. In terms of the actual implementation on SS client side it should literally be just adding the authorization token, but there will be some programming needed. Typically you are going to be losing 20-30% of conversions tracking to IOS but other providers will follow suite, whether browser or tech based, for example Firefox already blocks the trackers. You can send a max of 8 events, custom conversions will basically only fire through browser. Pixel events will only fire when there are no ad-blockers or other things in place. That is when the server side will fall-back. This has been going on for at least 2 years. Expect once implemented your conversions to go up. Or at the moment just remove Apple devices from all campaign targeting. Glyn

Hi there. I think the only ways you can fix these things are to move any code firing via code injection in the head of the page to the footer - this will stop render blocking. Anything else you want to remove in the header can only be done by going down the developer route. Next Gen formats again I think would be based on you being able to add them via the wysiwig, which I don't think it supports. Unused CSS is again tied outside of your control, although you may be able to expedite some load times with a pre-load (you might need to change the last item). <link rel="preload" href="//fonts.gstatic.com"> <link rel="preload" href="//connect.facebook.net"> <link rel="preload" href="//googletagmanager.com"> <link rel="preload" href="//ajax.googleapis.com"> <link rel='preconnect' href='https://fonts.gstatic.com' crossorigin> <link rel='stylesheet' href='https://fonts.googleapis.com/css?family=Poppins:700,300,500&display=swap'> Again on the other points, outside of your control. Bear in mind that GT METRIX users Google Lighthouse for performance scores, and unless you are serving a blank page no-one gets over 65%! 🙂 Always remember that Google simply wants your websites to load fast so they can serve ads over them quickly, it has nothing to do with user experience 🙂 All that slows my website down now is their code.

Hi there and thanks for your reply. Unfortunately SS is wrong on this, there should not be more than one H1 tag on a page If you install this extension in Chrome, https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/h-tag/fjigfcghoooegmndmejpoeoodplfmoca you will see more clearly that every title of your blog post category/collection page is coded using an H1 tag. When you visit one of your blog posts, I picked "PROFESSIONAL FILM DEVELOPING (956) 492-7140" you have 2 H1s the second one being "To order your film processing....". It's a user choice how they code their page on elements they can control, but where things are hard-coded into the template and you can't get at them, it becomes a problem. What would make sense is that a blog heading was created using an H1 tag on single page view, and H2 on collection pages (I think that is what they are called), this would follow the logic of recommendations about using H tags through a page to tell a story of importance of page elements. Hopefully there is an SS developer reading these boards 🙂 Or there is a piece of jquery or other that might rewrite on the fly collection pages blog titles at runtime so they flip to H2s. Cheers.

Hi there. I am trying to find to see if there is a way to add timed on and off buttons for products in SquareSpace. I have seen that it is possible to schedule a product to appear at a certain date. but it would also be good for that same product to disappear when a certain date has been reached. Does anyone know if this is possible? Thanks

Hi there. I've noticed that on the blog pages where all the posts are listed all the titles on the blog are created using H1 tags. That means on a page where you have four blog posts you will have: 1. Page title H1 2. Four blog posts each with H1 What should be happening is that the blog posts are being listed with H2 tags. As there is no way to set the H level on the title of a blog post this is a change that needs to be made at the design/template level. But frankly should probably have been included as part of the blog code natively. Has anyone come up against this type of issue Thanks