Driving traffic to your website

Now that your website is live, you'll need to take action to ensure that the site is visible to search engines. If you use Facebook, Twitter, or other social media, you can also use these sites to drive traffic to your Squarespace website, as mentioned earlier when setting up your Connected Accounts.

Making your website visible to Google and other search engines

Google, Bing, Yahoo, or any other search engine will not be able to magically sense that you have a new website. If you are using a brand new domain, you will need to tell these search engines that your new site exists.

Tip

If you are using an existing domain that is already visible to search engines, bear in mind it can take a little while for the search engines to index the new content on your new site, so you may see some results for your old pages for a while after launching the new site.

The absolute best way to make your site visible to all search engines is to get an existing website to link to yours...