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Building Business Websites with Squarespace 7: RAW

You're reading from   Building Business Websites with Squarespace 7: RAW Master the tools and techniques of using Squarespace to create professional websites

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Product type Paperback
Published in Apr 2015
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ISBN-13 9781783559961
Length 392 pages
Edition 1st Edition
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Table of Contents (16) Chapters Close

Preface 1. Setting Up for Success – Your Website Toolkit FREE CHAPTER 2. Getting Started with Squarespace 3. Working with Squarespace Templates 4. Creating Your Site Framework: Pages, Items, Collections, and Navigation 5. Adding, Editing, and Arranging Content in Your Web Pages 6. Using Blocks to Add Functionality, Rich Media, and Special Features 7. Selling Online or Taking Donations with Squarespace Commerce 8. Tailoring Your Site's Look and Feel 9. Going Live with Your Website and Driving Traffic to It 10. Managing Your Squarespace Website 11. Moving beyond Standard Squarespace Tools A. Getting Help with Squarespace B. Squarespace Templates in a Nutshell
C. List of Online Resources Used in This Book
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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.

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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...

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