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Product type Paperback

Published in Jul 2023

Publisher Packt

ISBN-13 9781801813082

Length 354 pages

Edition 1st Edition

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Squarespace

Concepts

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Author (1):

Kelsey Kreiling

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Table of Contents (25) Chapters

Preface

1. Introduction

2. Part 1: So, You Want to Build a Website on Squarespace FREE CHAPTER

3. Chapter 1: Choosing Your Platform – to Squarespace or Not to Squarespace

4. Chapter 2: Preparing to Build Your Site – Making an Outline and Gathering Your Assets

5. Part 2: Design and Build Your Site

6. Chapter 3: Setting Up Your Squarespace Site

7. Chapter 4: Getting Started – Creating and Editing Your Site Header

8. Chapter 5: Design Essentials – Color and Typography

9. Chapter 6: Building Your First Pages and Sections

10. Chapter 7: Using Content Blocks and Building Forms

11. Chapter 8: Optimizing Your Site for Mobile

12. Chapter 9: Using Custom Code to Enhance Your Website

13. Part 3: Give Your Site Superpowers

14. Chapter 10: Commerce – Selling Items, Subscriptions, and Services

15. Chapter 11: Blogging – Sharing Your Ideas

16. Chapter 12: Member Areas – Selling Your Knowledge and Protecting Your Content

17. Chapter 13: Scheduling – Selling Your Time and Sharing Your Availability

18. Part 4: Launch Your New Website

19. Chapter 14: Prepare to Launch Your Site

20. Chapter 15: Connecting Your Domain and Making It Live

21. Chapter 16: Understanding Analytics and Setting Up SEO

22. Chapter 17: Keep Growing Your Site with Marketing Tools

23. Index

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Adding SEO page descriptions and checking page titles and URL slugs

We’ll go in-depth into the topic of search engine optimization (SEO) in Chapter 16, Understanding Analytics and Setting Up SEO, but as you prepare to launch your site, do an audit of the pages you’ve designed, confirming that your page titles, URL slugs, and SEO descriptions are set up correctly.

Page titles

To confirm or edit your page title and URL, navigate to your individual page settings by selecting the widget to the right of the title in your Page menu, as seen in Figure 14.2:

Figure 14.2 – General Page Settings

Add the correct titles to PAGE TITLE and NAVIGATION TITLE, then check that your URL slug matches your page titles, replacing any spaces with dashes to make it easy for search bots to read. These three items (the page title, navigation title, and URL slug) are automatically generated by Squarespace when you create a new page so there’s a...