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  1. Hi @MattBairdSound If the site at the new domain is intended to fully replace the site that was at the old domain there are a couple of important things to do (some of which you may have already done). Add the old domain as a secondary domain to the main, new site. This means any hits to URLs with the old domain will be redirected to the new site. For any pages where the URL slug has changed from the old site to the new one, make sure there's a URL Redirect rule in places to the user (and Google's crawlers) get to the correct place. Verify ownership of both the old domain and the new one in Google Search Console. Once you have Google Search Console properties verified for both, complete the Change of Address form in Search Console to notify Google that your website has moved from the old domain to the new one. You'll have to wait a few weeks for Google to register this change, recrawl the new domain, and start showing updated results in the index. It can be a slow process – I've seen it take a few weeks. That's why you want to set up the secondary domain and redirects in the meantime so the old results Google still displays get users to the right place. LMK if you need help implementing any of this. - Ed -- Blue Hills Digital Support with website optimization, SEO and finding a digital marketing strategy that works. Resource: Squarespace SEO Checklist: 2023 Update
  2. Hi @Hakora It looks like Google has successfully indexed some pages from your website. When I run a search for your brand name "iyanda el designs" I see your homepage showing as the second result in the SERP. See screenshot attached. It's hard to speculate about the other error messages you may be seeing from Google Search Console without looking at the property directly, but it's not uncommon for Google to show error or warning messages like the ones in your screenshots after crawling a website. Not all of these are cause for concern, it just depends which specific URLs they apply to. If you're looking to get more URLs from your website indexed and showing up in search results, start by thinking through who the target audience is and what search queries they might be entering into Google. Then take a look at the existing search engine results pages (SERPs) for those queries. That's your competition. From there, you can start building URLs that might compete with the URLs Google has currently selected as the "best" URLs to show for those search queries. The most important thing to focus on is high quality content that Google will not only index but also choose to rank highly compared to the competition. Hope that helps. Good luck! - Ed -- Blue Hills Digital Support with website optimization, SEO and finding a digital marketing strategy that works. Resource: Squarespace SEO Checklist: 2023 Update
  3. Hi @charlestonnikki Semrush is one of the primary tools I use with my clients (a mix of Squarespace and WordPress sites). I'd be happy to chat: ed@bluehillsdigital.com - Ed -- Blue Hills Digital Support with website optimization, SEO and finding a digital marketing strategy that works. Resource: Squarespace SEO Checklist: 2023 Update
  4. Hi – I'd be happy to do some troubleshooting on a call if that would be helpful. We would need to look at the new Squarespace dashboard, Google Search Console properties for both domains, and the DNS records or both domains. I'm sure you want to get on top of it quickly, ideally before Google re-indexes the site! You can use this scheduling link for booking: https://calendly.com/blue-hills-digital/website-support-video-call - Ed -- Blue Hills Digital Support with website optimization, SEO and finding a digital marketing strategy that works. Latest resource: Google Analytics 4 vs. Universal Analytics: Getting Started with GA4
  5. Squarespace 7.0 templates didn't all behave the same with h1 tagging, so perhaps your client's site is using a different template to the site mentioned earlier in the thread. I totally agree it's not ideal that the templates were coded this way. They seem to have corrected this in 7.1, where the site logo/title are no longer wrapped in h1 tags. Unfortunately I'm not aware of a way to strip the h1 tags from the logo on a 7.0 site.
  6. Hi @rastaquere17 - unfortunately Squarespace does not have a built-in import or migration route from SS 7 to 7.1. If you want to upgrade from SS 7 to 7.1 you'll need to manage the migration yourself (or hire someone to do it for you). We've put together a guide to migrating from Squarespace 7.0 to 7.1 which outlines the process and includes links to some third-party tools that can help speed up the process and reduce the risk of hurting SEO if your 7.0 site is already established. Hope that helps some. Ed -- Blue Hills Digital Support with website optimization, SEO and finding a digital marketing strategy that works. Latest resource: Google Analytics 4 vs. Universal Analytics: Getting Started with GA4
  7. Hi @NeuroScienceOf – I'd need to talk more about you're bigger picture goals about the two websites and which one becomes the long-term, authoritative domain for that content before making a recommendation about how to proceed. One note: there isn't any easy way to add canonical tags to individual Squarespace blog posts. The canonical tag should go in the header, and there is not post-specific header code injection for SS blog posts. I'd be happy to find time for a quick chat if you want. Here's a scheduling link. - Ed -- Blue Hills Digital Support with website optimization, SEO and finding a digital marketing strategy that works. Latest resource: Google Analytics 4 vs. Universal Analytics: Getting Started with GA4
  8. @BANE You can verify right from the Squarespace Analytics tool – see screenshot below. Alternatively follow the Google Search Console instructions to create a TXT record to your DNS using the value provided. There are some notes and more screenshots here: https://www.bluehillsdigital.com/articles/google-search-console-add-verify-website/
  9. @Cbreeze @BANE can you share your domains? That makes troubleshooting easier. Ed -- Blue Hills Digital Support with website optimization, SEO and finding a digital marketing strategy that works. Latest resource: Squarespace SEO Services
  10. Hi @KimberleyDoyle - make sure you're pasting the GA4 measurement ID into the relevant External APIs field in your Squarespace site. It's easy to get confused between that and the Property ID, Data Stream ID etc in the GA4 settings. This article has some screenshots that should help: https://www.bluehillsdigital.com/articles/squarespace-google-analytics/#add-ga4-squarespace Hope that helps. - Ed -- Blue Hills Digital Support with website optimization, SEO and finding a digital marketing strategy that works. Latest resource: Squarespace SEO Services
  11. There's no way to definitively control what text Google displays as the title and description in the search results. The amount of title and description re-writing Google is doing increased dramatically in the past year. You can read about these changes in more detail in this article: https://searchengineland.com/navigating-googles-title-changes-the-rollout-whats-happening-now-and-what-you-can-do-about-it-375445 It's possible Google will decide to adjust the title and description displayed in the SERPs for your homepage over time, but maybe it won't 🤪 Ultimately your best bet is to do you best to write a good SEO title and description for each page/post in the Squarespace SEO settings – something that you think will work for the most popular search query intent for that you're targeting with that URL – and hope Google uses it. Hope that helps, - Ed -- Blue Hills Digital Support with website optimization, SEO and finding a digital marketing strategy that works. Latest resource: Squarespace SEO Services
  12. Hi @JustinR - I just tested and it looks like this is still an issue. Have you reached out to Squarespace support? It's hard to suggest other potential issues without checking the website itself and what you're seeing in Google Search Console. - Ed -- Blue Hills Digital Support with website optimization, SEO and finding a digital marketing strategy that works. Latest resource: Squarespace SEO Services
  13. Hi @LauraStoker - there isn't a URL to the pop-up itself .. if I'm understanding correctly what you're looking to achieve I think you're best bet is to create a separate landing page with the popup content replicated. You could set that page to no-index so it's not crawled in search results and you could use that URL to drive traffic directly to the sign up form. Make sense? Website looks great. Love the color palette. Ed -- Blue Hills Digital Support with website optimization, SEO and finding a digital marketing strategy that works. Latest resource: Squarespace SEO Services
  14. You have to hover your mouse over a page in the list to see the gear icon – is it still not showing when you mouseover one of the pages? - Ed -- Blue Hills Digital Support with website optimization, SEO and finding a digital marketing strategy that works. Latest resource: Squarespace SEO Services
  15. Hi @TheBrattleboro - the additional "Sitelinks" that display below the main result are selected by Google based on what the algorithm thinks will be useful for a particular user's search term. This means that the set of sitelinks shown for your site may vary from one search to another depending on the search query the user entered. There's no way to directly control whether sitelinks are displayed, or what sitelinks are displayed. Generally having a clean, simple site architecture and navigation structure will help, but ultimately the algorithm will decide what to include. See more info from Google Search Central here: https://developers.google.com/search/docs/advanced/appearance/sitelinks Hope that helps, - Ed -- Blue Hills Digital Support with website optimization, SEO and finding a digital marketing strategy that works. Latest resource: Squarespace SEO Services
  16. There are still 2 SPF records on the cedarboatclub.org domain – you can use this tool to check your SPF records configuration: https://www.dmarcanalyzer.com/spf/checker/ You can only have one SPF record on each domain, so you'll need to rewrite your SPF record so that it covers all the services/IPs you are using to send email from your domain in one expression. Here's another resource that might help there: https://www.dmarcanalyzer.com/spf/how-to-create-an-spf-txt-record/ Hope that helps! - Ed -- Blue Hills Digital Support with website optimization, SEO and finding a digital marketing strategy that works. Latest resource: Squarespace SEO Services
  17. Hi - if I'm understanding correctly, you want to move away from Squarespace entirely and use the domain ibvs.education as a secondary domain pointing to the WordPress site published at https://somosboske.com/ — is that correct? If so, you'll need to change the DNS records for ibvs.education to point to the server where your WordPress site is hosted. If ibvs.education is registered with Squarespace you can use the Squarespace domain settings interface to do that, or if you want to move way from Squarespace completely, you could transfer that domain registration to whichever registrar manages somosboske.com Hope that helps. - Ed -- Blue Hills Digital Support with website optimization, SEO and finding a digital marketing strategy that works. Latest resource: Squarespace SEO Services
  18. Hey ... Humans 🙂 Love the "content for humans" framing. I just ran a quick crawl of the site and there are a few minor errors to fix, but nothing that would be preventing Google from discovering/crawling/indexing the site. Unfortunately that often just takes time for a brand new site – especially one with very few URLs like yours. Building the business' profile off-site will help – if you're eligible for a Google Business Profile, set one up. If you have social profiles for the business, link to the website from those profiles, and back to those profiles from the website. If you have other opportunities to to build *real, quality, natural* links to your website from other established sites, do that. And in the meantime, publish more blog posts and focus on building up internal linking. Happy to jump on a call and look at your Search Console with you if you want, and share the crawl results. - Ed -- Blue Hills Digital Support with website optimization, SEO and finding a digital marketing strategy that works. Latest resource: Squarespace SEO Services
  19. I haven't received anything helpful from Squarespace – I asked them to escalate it to their engineering team but they just insisted it was "something to be discussed with Google". I'm trying to find time to do some more detailed debugging in GA4 with a live ecommerce site to see what transaction data Squarespace's GA4 integration is actually sending. I'll update this thread if I make any progress there. -- Blue Hills Digital Support with website optimization, SEO and finding a digital marketing strategy that works. Latest resource: Squarespace SEO Services
  20. You might want to check with Squarespace support about that. Typically you'll need to add four A records and 2 CNAME records when connecting a domain. It might just be that it was connected a long time ago and SS wants to nudge you to update those settings. Your site is still loading fine though, so it shouldn't be impacting search rankings. -- Blue Hills Digital Support with website optimization, SEO and finding a digital marketing strategy that works. Latest resource: Squarespace SEO Services Need support? Book a Consultation
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    Your branded search results page looks good now, at least from here: One suggestion, to avoid confusing Google — you mentioned having a separate "home page" for mobile devices. It would be ideal to drop that .../mobile page and use some CSS to adapt how the homepage displays on mobile devices. Otherwise you have two, duplicate pages, and there's no easy way to enforce the .../mobile version being displayed for users on mobile devices anyway. - Ed -- Blue Hills Digital Support with website optimization, SEO and finding a digital marketing strategy that works. Latest resource: Squarespace SEO Services
  22. Hi Greg, There's a bunch of reasons that could be driving this change, so you'd need to do more analysis to really get to the answer. There's a couple of things I'd point to here: You're looking at "average position", but it's not clear from the screenshots what the total group of keywords is that the average is drawn from. If it's a specific, limited set of keywords you've chosen to target and the average has gone down that is indeed bad news. But if it's an average position metric based on the total number of keywords the site is ranking for, this might actually be good news – the site is starting to rank for many more keywords, but in lower positions in the SERPs, so that's dragging your overall average down. This is why you have to be really careful about using "average position" as a KPI, and many of the SEO tools don't make that very clear. If you're specifically concerned about the drop in the past week, Google is currently rolling out a core update and when that happens it's not unusual to see some instability in the search rankings. If you haven't changed anything on your site recently that could have caused a new, technical issue I'd recommend giving it a few weeks until the rankings stabilize after the core update is complete and see if those positions come back. Hope that helps. If you need more help digging into the data to diagnose let me know. Ed -- Blue Hills Digital Support with website optimization, SEO and finding a digital marketing strategy that works. Latest resource: Squarespace SEO Services
  23. Hi @1957Goldtop - this is an issue I've replicated on several client sites where we have GA4 and UA running and are currently testing to make sure everything's working, so you're not alone! I have also reached out to Squarespace support to try and get them to review and confirm GA4 purchase events are getting pushed to GA4 with all the necessary data, but I got a similarly unhelpful response. I'm still researching, and I'll be happy to update this thread if I make any progress figuring it out. One additional detail – if you check Configure > Conversions in GA4 you'll probably see the relevant conversions *with* the correct monetary values associated. The issue seems to be that those values aren't showing up in the item revenue reports in the Monetization section. - Ed -- Blue Hills Digital Support with website optimization, SEO and finding a digital marketing strategy that works. Latest resource: Squarespace SEO Services
  24. Hi Hanna - we have a step by step guide for this here: https://www.bluehillsdigital.com/articles/squarespace-google-analytics/ Sounds like you have everything covered already though - if you created a new GA4 property and then copied/pasted the G-xxxxx ID into the Squarespace settings you should be all set. Note that it can take a little while for data to start appearing in the GA4 reports. You can ignore the email you received from Google unless you're looking for a more complex Google Analytics setup. - Ed -- Blue Hills Digital Support with website optimization, SEO and finding a digital marketing strategy that works. Latest resource: Squarespace SEO Services
  25. My two cents: it all depends on the client's goals and priorities. If the kind of advertising they are considering involves pointing people to a website where they will convert into leads/customers/etc then I think you can make a good argument for investing a quality website first, so that later investments in advertising aren't wasted on a website that doesn't convert visitors. This is also a great opportunity to make sure your website proposal includes a measurement plan — if the client wants to run paid traffic to the site they will want some insight into whether that investment is paying off! - Ed -- Blue Hills Digital Support with website optimization, SEO and finding a digital marketing strategy that works. Latest resource: Squarespace SEO Services
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