Thx again Mate! I subscribed to your SEO Space. Just getting into it but it looks awesome. Spying on the competition is great for key words. I built my site a couple of months ago and was in the 85% crowd. Will let u know how i sit in a month. Very exciting.
@@stevetragg yes you can, although, I prefer requesting indexing. When a new page is added, Squarespace updates your sitemap after around 48 hours - then GSC will pick up that change automatically
Re:blogging: I don’t understand why you said to click ADD blog post from the not linked section - when I imagine you would want your Blog to appear in main navigation? Great video thanks!
It depends! You can do either - in this case, I'm using the blog to attract target customers to the website. If a target customer finds the websites via one of my service pages, I don't want them to get distracted by the blog (when the content I write will be to attract attention, not convert it) - I want them to get in touch/enquire about my services.
Squarespace automatically updates it, so you don't need to resubmit. However, if I make a lot of changes to a page, I will manually request indexing via Google Search Console
Great video. Thank you! Curious to know how AI will play a role in the future. What can we do to be ready for search engines that will inevitably start leaning on their AI technology to "scrape" sites for content and offer that up as "search results"?
Potentially! Although, Google wont go through your site immediately anyway, it usually takes 48 hours I have found - I just like to get it out the way for peace of mind. + by putting that key step closer to the start of the video, more people are likely to see it and get value.
Hello. Great video and product. Quick question. I submitted the site map to google console but the status says "couldn't fetch". Is there something I'm missing?
Thanks for reaching out! It will be for 1 of 2 reason. 1. Your sitemap hasn't been generated yet - it takes around 48 hours for Squarespace to make it, if you recently published your site 2. You might have a domain property on your GSC - when you add your sitemap, can you see your URL before the box? If not, you need to type in the whole URL and then the sitemap.xml
Hi Question for you, Henry. In your blog example, I saw that you put it in the "unlinked" section. Is there a reason for that? Can you clarify? Thanks so much for this amazing video!
No worries at all! Happy to help! That was just because I have a special plugin that creates the drop down menu in my header - for that to work it needs to be unlinked. Take a look at my site and you should see what I mean!
Strictly yes, however, it might not have an impact. I always do redirects, as you never know if you've linked to the old page somewhere on the site - you don't want to create more work for yourself by creating broken links.
thanks for the video man, just a little question, it gets a bit confusing by 11:44 : I just changed all my "URL slugs names" so how am i supposed to enter their "old name" in the URL Mapping since i just renamed them all ? 😅 also I updated all the clickable links on my squarespace website with the new "URL names", do i still have to do the mapping ? hopefully you understand my question haha thanks
No problem! If you visit Google search console, and then pages, because you only recently changed them, you will be able to find the old URL - or, if you linked to that page anywhere else in your site, you can find it from there.
on the GSC my sitemap came back with error and said "missing xml tag" "site map can be read, but has errors Missing XML tag 1 instance This required tag is missing. Please add it and resubmit. Examples Line 2 Parent tag: urlset Tag: URL" what does this mean, please help :(
If you've just published your site, it can take 24-48 hours - otherwise, it might be because you did domain verification when connecting to GSC - in that case, if you don't see your URL before the sitemap box, you will need to type in www.yourURL.com/sitemap.xml
Wonderful guide!
this was awesome, thank you so much!
Happy to help!
This is the best SEO video I have watched, straight to the point, simple explanations and helpful!
Thank you!
Thank you for all you do for we SquareSpace entrepreneurs. This is an exceptional video and very helpful.
Thank you and no problem at all!
Incredible work, Henry. Thank you.
Thank you!
This is actually the most incredible SEO video i have watched since starting my business. Thank you so much dude!
Thank you! Happy to help 😃
Fantastic and well-presented, thank you. I am going to explore your product next! Cheers, K
Thanks K! Glad you liked it!
Super helpful. I'm in my SEO era now!
Glad you finally watched it mate!
thank you so much for this!
Thank You Henry. This is an excellent video on SEO. Much appreciated.
Happy to help!
Thank you for this video and sharing the knowledge!
Happy to help!
Thank you so much for this! Best video on this topic!
Happy to help! Thank you!
Thx again Mate! I subscribed to your SEO Space. Just getting into it but it looks awesome. Spying on the competition is great for key words. I built my site a couple of months ago and was in the 85% crowd. Will let u know how i sit in a month. Very exciting.
Thanks for letting me know and congrats for taking a leap! Excited to hear about the progress 🙌
Great content Henry, thanks for the insights :)
Glad you liked it!
Gee mate :) thank you SO MUCH!!! - Just Awesome :)
Happy to help!
Thank you, this has helped a lot. I liked, subscribed, and now I'm going to try to plugin
Glad to hear and happy to help!
Massive value! Do you need to do 301 URL slug redirects if you haven't sent the site map yet?
You don't need to do it if the original URL isn't indexed/getting impressions, no - you're right!
@@h.purchase thanks 🙏. Can you resend site map instead of the redirects. And what happens if you add a new page after site map has been submitted?
@@stevetragg yes you can, although, I prefer requesting indexing. When a new page is added, Squarespace updates your sitemap after around 48 hours - then GSC will pick up that change automatically
Re:blogging: I don’t understand why you said to click ADD blog post from the not linked section - when I imagine you would want your Blog to appear in main navigation?
Great video thanks!
It depends! You can do either - in this case, I'm using the blog to attract target customers to the website. If a target customer finds the websites via one of my service pages, I don't want them to get distracted by the blog (when the content I write will be to attract attention, not convert it) - I want them to get in touch/enquire about my services.
If you make any big changes to the website do you have to re-submit the site map?
Squarespace automatically updates it, so you don't need to resubmit. However, if I make a lot of changes to a page, I will manually request indexing via Google Search Console
Great video. Thank you! Curious to know how AI will play a role in the future. What can we do to be ready for search engines that will inevitably start leaning on their AI technology to "scrape" sites for content and offer that up as "search results"?
This was brilliant, thank you.
Glad to hear! Thank you!
Love it, thank you for sharing
Happy to help!
Thank you so much man!! But wouldnt it be more effective to connect your search console after having done the technical SEO part ?
Potentially! Although, Google wont go through your site immediately anyway, it usually takes 48 hours I have found - I just like to get it out the way for peace of mind.
+ by putting that key step closer to the start of the video, more people are likely to see it and get value.
Keep up the good work!
Thanks Rob!
I get using hyphens in an image name. But it looks like you didn't use hyphens in your alt text. What is the best practice for alt-text?
With alt text, writing as normal is completely fine 👌
@@h.purchase Thanks. Your videos are great!
Hello. Great video and product. Quick question. I submitted the site map to google console but the status says "couldn't fetch". Is there something I'm missing?
Thanks for reaching out! It will be for 1 of 2 reason. 1. Your sitemap hasn't been generated yet - it takes around 48 hours for Squarespace to make it, if you recently published your site 2. You might have a domain property on your GSC - when you add your sitemap, can you see your URL before the box? If not, you need to type in the whole URL and then the sitemap.xml
Hi when I try and link the site maps for google console, its showing status as 'couldnt fetch' any ideas how to solve this?
Thanks for reaching out! How long ago did you publish your site? Squarespace takes around 48 hours to generate your sitemap after you go live.
@@h.purchase Thanks its been longer now than that, I think its a DNS problem
Hi Question for you, Henry. In your blog example, I saw that you put it in the "unlinked" section. Is there a reason for that? Can you clarify? Thanks so much for this amazing video!
No worries at all! Happy to help!
That was just because I have a special plugin that creates the drop down menu in my header - for that to work it needs to be unlinked. Take a look at my site and you should see what I mean!
How to install your seo plug in on square space website ??
Head to this link: www.seospace.co/
Do we need to redirect the url if there's 0 traffic?
Strictly yes, however, it might not have an impact.
I always do redirects, as you never know if you've linked to the old page somewhere on the site - you don't want to create more work for yourself by creating broken links.
@@h.purchase Thanks.. I am working on a client's website. Your videos are awesome!
If you have more than one image on a page, what do you name the other images?
You can name them what the image is about - just describe them!
thanks for the video man,
just a little question, it gets a bit confusing by 11:44 :
I just changed all my "URL slugs names" so how am i supposed to enter their "old name" in the URL Mapping since i just renamed them all ? 😅
also I updated all the clickable links on my squarespace website with the new "URL names", do i still have to do the mapping ? hopefully you understand my question haha thanks
No problem! If you visit Google search console, and then pages, because you only recently changed them, you will be able to find the old URL - or, if you linked to that page anywhere else in your site, you can find it from there.
on the GSC my sitemap came back with error and said "missing xml tag" "site map can be read, but has errors
Missing XML tag
1 instance
This required tag is missing. Please add it and resubmit.
Examples
Line 2
Parent tag:
urlset
Tag:
URL" what does this mean, please help :(
How long ago did you publish your site? If it was recently, Squarespace might not have published the sitemap yet.
I followed all the directions in the video which was great but I'm still not finding myself on google. Any help?
I have an article to help here: www.seospace.co/blog/squarespace-website-not-showing-up-on-google
does re-submitting your sitemap into google search console after changing a bunch of slugs do the same thing as a 301 redirect?
No, unfortunately, as Google will think those pages still exist, causing 404 errors
Does my sitemap take a while to "fetch", after submitting it says it "couldn't fetch"
If you've just published your site, it can take 24-48 hours - otherwise, it might be because you did domain verification when connecting to GSC - in that case, if you don't see your URL before the sitemap box, you will need to type in www.yourURL.com/sitemap.xml
With the image file name if its IMG_1234.jpg but i've changed the Alternate File Name, do i ned to reupload the image file with the correct File Name?
I typically do yes!
Ummm you can rename the file/image in your asset library lol
@@DanaDreamsBig yes, but you can't compress it from there!
@@h.purchase yes, but did he ask that?
Great information re SEO but what about Bing and Duckduck go?
Coach Kyle