SEOSpace_Henry

Thanks for the response @Sifat_SEOSpace!

The only thing I'd add @RobGorrell is many SEO experts actually recommend 100kb for image size, so our recommendation is in between that and what Squarespace says - it's realistically what's achievable on the platform.

No problem @kneecoal! Let me know how you find it.

Hi @zakb - could you reply with your site so I can take a look please?

Hi everyone 👋

I made this guide for SEO for service businesses - feel free to check it out:

Hi @Rawan, this can be down to a few things - I actually made a graphic that summarises the key points, as people ask this a lot 😅

I've also scanned your homepage with SEOSpace and can see the main thing probably holding you back is thin content - i.e. <300 words on a web page, which makes it hard for Google to know what to rank you for.

Hi @kneecoal - this is usually due to "thin content" on a page - i.e. you have <300 words on a specific web page.

If you have more than 300 words on the pages flagged, feel free to ignore the recommendations. SEMRush doesn't provide guidance specific to Squarespace, so sometimes, you'll be told to do things you can't on SQSP.

That's one of the reasons I made SEOSpace 👌

Hi @E-W - there isn't unfortunately! 

Hey @emiehughes - I have a video on this exact topic which should help!

Potentially make this longer? 

It might be worth checking out @kristineneil's site: https://kristineneil.com/ - she has tonnes of helpful guidance for ecom sites.

Hey @Evgeniy - you can redirect it using a 301 redirect, but then you will lose rankings for the keywords unfortunately!

Could you possibly make the product description longer instead?

On 2/16/2024 at 5:08 AM, ECBAdmin said:

Thank you so much Henry!

Appreciate all of your help!

No problem! If it helped, would you mind marking it as the solution please? Thank you!

Hey @RudolfoDalamicio - you need to change your site title.

To do this, edit your site's header, then click on your logo and edit your site title - take a look at the attached screenshots.

Hey @ECBAdmin - happy to help!

I've recorded a Loom video which should help: https://www.loom.com/share/494e3d196fa4409dbc64ad704fcd4430?sid=9f23a1ad-b3bb-4bbc-96fe-6f73e825fe38

I ran your site through SEOSpace - I don't have access to your Google Search Console, so I can't get fully accurate results, but hope this helps!

Here's the video I mentioned: 

Hey @Immortal_Explorer - potentially - it is quite blocky in some places.

I'm not a design expert, but you can probably achieve the same word count/copy amount but "hide" it by having sliders etc. that tie things off nicely.

I know @bycrawford does this well on his homepage: https://bycrawford.com/ 

Hey @ECBAdmin, sure! Feel free to drop your site, and we can take a look.

No problem at all @Rodney1234! If you wouldn't mind marking it as the solution that would be great thank you 🙏

Hey @Rodney1234 - I understand how frustrating this can be!

I've added some solutions below:

• Optimize your SEO title: Make your SEO title 50-60 characters, this is optimal for Google
• Connect your website to Google Search Console: GSC is the platform you connect your site to, in order to let Google know you're ready to be shown up on search engines - submit your sitemap and request indexing of your homepage to boost your changes of showing up well. I have a resource for this here: 
• Follow SEO best practices: If your homepage isn't following other SEO best practices, Google is less likely to take you seriously - a common pitfall is not having >300 words on every web page.

The above video also has some other common pitfalls.

Hope that helps!

Hi @kellywilliamsphotographer - please could you send the page across so I can take a look?

In general, for SEO, you only need to add alternative text (alt text) to images, so you might be able to get away without adding the title and description.

Hi @Katey001 - I feel your frustration here! I've been here too.

I've added some possible solutions below, but sometimes this can take time.

• Ensure your SEO titles are 50-60 characters long - this is optimal for displaying on search engines - I have added a video at the bottom which should help.
• Make sure the rest of your page follows SEO best practices - ensure you're following an SEO checklist across the rest of your page so it's easy for Google to crawl your website and display you correctly
• Backlinks - backlinks are links from other websites, they increase your domain authority - a score of how reputable your site is on Google. If you don't have many backlinks, Google is less likely to take your site seriously and crawl it more often. Get high-quality backlinks, and Google is more likely to be kind here.
• Optimize your SEO description (meta description) - this should be 150-160 characters long and include the main keyword you want to rank for.
• Internal links: adding internal links from other web pages to this one, indicates to Google that this is an important page, and boosts the likelihood it'll display correctly. This is called "page hierarchy"
• Requested indexing - have you submitted your sitemap to Google Search Console and manually requested indexing? This can really help. I've added a video guide below to connecting Google Search Console to Google. 

Hey @Samdidam - checkout this video, this should answer your query: 

Hi @HayleyTitheradge - no problem at all!

Yes, this just means Google knows the web page is there (so it is recognising your content, fortunately!), but hasn't decided to index it for a number of reasons - I have a video here which might help: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5sZk1CA3zIA

In terms of backlinks... it's tricky; there are lots of ways and a lot of people do it wrong. I have a strategy in this video at 10:04 which should help: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jyFb3Uell4k

In general, I recommend:

• Creating content that's worthy of linking to
• Collabs with other businesses
• Guest posting
• Sharing content across social media
• Working with industry organisations etc.

I studied the top 10% of Squarespace websites (in terms of organic traffic) to see what they do differently and what makes them stand out.

The top 10% had, on average:

• 2.85x more backlinks
• 6.75x more keywords on Google
• 19.8% higher SEO score

Which means, to get closer to the top 10% and boost your traffic, you need to follow SEO best practices, write more high-quality content and get backlinks.

Follow those 3 things, and you can't go too far wrong. Here's a video running through the results 👇

Hi everyone!

For those who missed it or don't know about SEOSpace yet, our new version has just launched!

SEOSpace is the SEO plugin for Squarespace - it tells you how to rank your Squarespace site higher up on Google without the jargon.

We just released site-wide audit, reporting and monitoring capabilities... meaning, you can improve your Squarespace SEO quicker than ever.

Check it out below 👇 

https://www.seospace.co/

No problem @Ziggy! Hope all is well with you and Happy New Year!

Hi everyone! 

SEO can be full of jargon and misinformation, and it can be hard to know where to start.

That's why I brought together this 5 step guide to ranking on page 1 of Google.

In short, the steps are:

1. Getting your keyword research right
2. Developing your SEO strategy
3. Following on-page SEO best practices
4. Writing page 1 worthy blog posts
5. Getting backlinks

The only thing I missed was connecting to Google Search Console, but check the video out below and let me know your thoughts!