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Remember: Website SEO Isn’t Magic. It’s Structure.
Website SEO isn't complicated, it's just misunderstood. With a few easy, consistent tips, you can optimize your website for search engines over times, building better website habits to get your business in front of the people who are looking for it.
How to use the Squarespace SEO Checker Tool [Live Client Walkthrough]
SEO failings are common and difficult to catch on many websites, but with Squarespace's SEO Checker Tool, you can get an overview of everything your website is missing along with suggestions on how to fix it quickly and easily so your website can start performing for your business.
Why Website Growth DOESN’T Start With Getting More Traffic
I've been asked so many times if I "Do SEO For Websites". What people actually want is website growth and more traffic, and that's about so much more than being SEO-optimized, it's about crafting your website to respond to traffic when it does come.
How To Make Squarespace Footers: Editing, Hiding, Strategizing, and Staging
Footers are a valuable way to add SEO and experience value to your site. Watch me use up-to-date web strategies to create an optimized Squarespace footer that does more than just sit there.
What To Do If Your Website No Longer Reflects Your Business
If you've looked at your website recently and felt like it's for a different, older business, here are some steps I've been taking with my clients to analyze, examine, and refresh their websites without needing to destroy what was already there and build something new. This website process is cheaper and quicker than a whole new build, and can prevent decision making paralysis with your website.
How to Create (& Style) the Scrolling Text Effect on Squarespace
Learn how to create the scrolling text effect in your Squarespace website. This is one of my favorite website effects with multiple uses, hopefully with this information you'll find how it can best fit your website plan!
How to Create a Squarespace Website Quiz using Interact
Cold email subscribe forms aren’t getting the results they used to. We all have multiple inboxes and so many emails coming in every day. Why invite more in? Enter: Interact. I've recently built out a Squarespace website quiz using Interact that not only helps me grow my email list but also helps me send website viewers to exactly where they need to go on the Designing the Row website.
Website Content Mistakes Keeping You From Growing Your Business
As a designer, I've seen a few frequent website content mistakes that trip up clients and keep their websites in development. Today, I'll go over some of these issues and what you need to do to prevent them from stalling your website progress.
The Process Of Redesigning A Squarespace Site
Watch along with me as I do a Squarespace website refresh for a client of mine, and you can see how I take a DIY website into a professionally put together, consistent branded platform. If you want to get a professional Squarespace refresh for your Squarespace website, reach out!
How to Optimize Your Squarespace Mobile Design
Even a site with a perfectly designed desktop layout can suffer as soon as a visitor accesses their site on mobile. Today, we'll quickly give you some tips to have consistent, mobile-ready layouts on your site and how to add 'check mobile' into your workflow so you never forget it again.
How to Set Up a Squarespace Shop - Complete 7.1 Walkthrough (2025)
From step one to a finished site, we'll go over everything you need to know to bring your Squarespace online store to life so you can start making money by selling products and services through the website you've worked so hard to build, optimized for SEO and usability.
Get Rid of Design That's Holding Your Website Back [Color Palette Tutorial]
The difference between an amateur website and a professional website is often down to the colors and how they're used. Today, I'll be showing you how to choose your colors from existing assets to make your brand website stand out like you're a massive company with a whole design team on your side by using those same philosophies.
How To Change the Colors of ANY Image to be More on Brand For Your Website (Canva Tutorial)
One of the most important parts of your brand is your color palette, which can make it so frustrating when your photos are just a little bit off color-wise. Today we'll cover how to tweak your photo colors using Canva to create better cohesion throughout your website.
How To Create Brand Consistency On Social Media
Great branding isn’t about having a rigid master plan, it’s often about a few core guiding principles that keep your brand aligned with your goals. Today we’ll discuss a few important questions you need to know about to get your brand to that aligned, consistent place so your messaging can flourish.
How to Build a Creative Career & Personal Brand (The Honest Version)
We all want our careers to go up and up forever, but if you’re building a creative career or personal brand, that’s not the case. By looking at my career trajectory, I hope you can prepare for the ups and downs of this field and know that every step you take is building your creative career (even if it’s not how you expect).