Squarespace FAQ > Search Engines and Promotion (25 entries)
Information related to search engines and site promotion.
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That depends on if search engines find your site interesting. There are several different algorithms used by modern search engines to "crawl" the internet and define search results. You can typically ...
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You should get your friends to link to your site, or find other ways to get existing sites to link to you. We do not recommend submitting your site manually to ...
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Search engines add new sites to their index by crawling them periodically. Once your site has been linked to from other sites on the web, and once an engine has decided ...
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Your site will receive better rankings in search engines when there are more outside links to the content on your website. Getting these links requires visibility, which is why search engines ...
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Google's PageRank assigns each website on the internet a number between 1 and 10, representing a relative importance factor (in the eyes of Google). This number is determined by the number ...
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PageRank is calculated by factoring the number of links to your website, along with the PageRank of each site linking to you (each link counts as a vote). More relevant links ...
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Absolutely not! The following points are things Squarespace does that ensure your site can be optimally crawled and indexed by major search engines: Valid/Clean XHTML -- Squarespace sites are produced ...
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It's already optimized. See the above question! Squarespace generated sites have clean XHTML, proper tagging, and proper META information — all of which is essential to helping web crawlers find and ...
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Generally, very sketchy services. Check Google's SEO Information page for more information. We don't recommend you use SEO services. Search engines explicitly work to drop exploitative sites (such as ...
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Your rankings are determined almost solely on the number of inbound links your have to your content, and the relative credibility of the sites linking to you. Write good content, receive ...
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Unless your website has over 100 or so incoming links, search engines may index your site very sparsely. You can expect to see more traffic from search engines when you have ...
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Your site, as generated by Squarespace, already incorporates all well known methods for allowing your site to be read easily by search spiders. Your site is presented to spiders using clear, ...
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While these programs or exchanges may increase the raw number of links to your site, you run an extremely high risk of Google identifying your site as one that participates in ...
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Advertising on the internet generally falls into two categories: Pay Per Click — The most popular form of advertising for individuals and small businesses. This allows you to pay for traffic ...
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Spamming is the act of sending unsolicited electronic messages in bulk. In the case of discussion forums, blogs or message boards, this definition can be extended to include any unsolicited messaging ...
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Squarespace can mark your website as "no-index", which will suggest to robots that they should not index your website. This is followed well by popular search engine spiders, but not so ...
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Yes. You add code that will appear between the <head> tags for your site within the [Website Management > Structure > General Configuration > Basics > Code Injection Points (Advanced), under ...
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Squarespace already fills in all meta tags that are used by modern search engines. If you're inquiring about the meta "keywords" tag, we feel that no major search engine has used ...
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Register your site with Google's Webmaster Tools. After doing this, you'll be able to tell Google which of your domains you'd like to be shown in their index.
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To verify your site with Google Sitemaps, follow these steps: Select 'Add a Meta Tag' as your verification method, and insert the code they issue you within [Structure & ...
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We do not recommend manually adding a sitemap to your Squarespace site at this time. Search engines have been crawling websites for over 10 years, and your site is easily indexable ...
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Squarespace first checks to see if you have a custom domain set up. If you do, Squarespace will report the PageRank for the domain you have marked as "active" in your ...
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This indicates that Google is not returning a result for your website when we issue the PageRank query. This could mean that Google has not yet indexed your site.
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A PageRank of 0 indicates that you do not have any other sites that Google is aware of pointing back to your website. Increasing the number of inbound links to your ...
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One of two things: You have changed your site's primary domain in your Squarespace site manager, so our interface is querying a different site. If you've just implemented a new site ...