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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 Improve Your Google Lighthouse Score on Desktop
In the first piece of my three-part series on how to use Google Lighthouse's analytics feature to improve and better optimize your website, I'll be going through a few common tricks that can slow down Squarespace websites on desktop view. Keeping these design details out of the top of your home page can be a great way to keep Google from penalizing your site due to performance issues.
How to Duplicate Pages and Content on Squarespace 7.1 (Fluid Engine)
Today, I'll be showing you how to duplicate pages and content on your Squarespace site, an easy way to streamline your website building process that I use on all sites that I work with. By breaking down how to duplicate different pieces of a Squarespace site, I'll show you how to maximize your building time and do it with confidence. This tutorial is specific to Squarespace 7.1, so be sure you're working on the most recent version before watching.
How to Improve Your Squarespace SEO Score (in just 15 minutes)!
Want to know how I improve my SEO score in just 15 minutes? In this real-time Squarespace tutorial I'll be covering how to use the free SEO tool Seobility to check your website’s search value, giving you valuable insight on how to optimize your website to be better crawled by search engines such as Google.
How to Launch a Squarespace Website Like a Pro (What DIYers Miss!)
Ensure a smooth Squarespace website launch with this step-by-step guide. Avoid common mistakes, optimize SEO, and set up your site like a pro.
How to Build a Website with AI (Squarespace AI Blueprint)
This video tutorial will teach you step-by-step how to build a website with AI using the Squarespace AI template builder feature to get your website started.
What You Need to Know Before Starting a Website Project 👩💻
In this video, I will guide you through the essential things you need to have ready for a website project. As a website designer with experience in designing over 200 websites, there are some things I see over and over again that hold people back in regards to website creation. And I want to make sure that doesn’t happen to you!