Squarespace SEO expert for sites that look better than they rank.

Yes. Squarespace gives you everything a small site needs to rank: editable titles and descriptions, clean URLs, SSL, an automatic sitemap, mobile layouts and reasonable speed. What it does not do is make those choices for you. Most Squarespace SEO problems are default settings, duplicate headings, unnamed images and a services list where there should be service pages. Those are fixable inside the platform.

No. The built-in SEO panel covers titles, descriptions, slugs and social sharing, and code injection covers schema. Third-party Squarespace SEO plugins can be a useful checklist for a DIY owner, but they do not do anything a person cannot do directly, and they add scripts to a site that should stay light.

For a content-heavy site with a team publishing daily, WordPress gives more control. For a practice, a studio or a small shop with under a hundred pages, the difference in ranking potential is close to zero, and Squarespace is easier to keep healthy. I do not move clients to WordPress to rank. I fix the Squarespace site they have.

Start with the ten settings in the checklist on this page: title format, page titles and descriptions, slugs, one H1 per page, image names and alt text, blog settings, redirects, schema, hidden pages and Search Console. Then build one page per service instead of a list. That sequence fixes most of what holds a Squarespace site back.

7.1 is faster, has cleaner templates and better section-level control, and it is the version Squarespace maintains. If you are on 7.0 and planning a redesign anyway, move. If the 7.0 site is working, the SEO gains from switching alone are small and the redirect work is real.

Rarely. Squarespace sites fail Core Web Vitals when they carry six-megabyte images, autoplay video banners and five embedded scripts. With images handled and the extras removed, most pass. Speed is one signal of many, and a slow Squarespace site with the right pages still outranks a fast one with none.

You invite me as a contributor from Settings, Permissions, with Administrator or Website Editor access. I work directly in the site, you see every change, and you can remove the access when we are done. No passwords change hands.

Yes. The $99 audit covers any platform, and on Squarespace it checks the settings in the checklist above along with the keyword landscape, content gaps and AI search visibility. Many clients run the fixes themselves from the report.

Only when each post answers a question people search and links to a service page. Squarespace's blog is good enough for that: categories, excerpts, authors and clean URLs. A blog that exists because someone said you should have one is an island, and I will tell you to stop before I tell you to write more.

Yes. Local rankings come from your Google Business Profile, your reviews and the location signals on your pages, not from the platform. I set up the local schema and the service-area content on the site and the profile work alongside it.

Yes. Squarespace is the platform most of my clients use, which is why it has its own page, and the approach is the same elsewhere. My most-cited therapy case, Shifting Tides, is a Wix site.

Squarespace SEO specialists charge anywhere from a one-off settings sweep in the hundreds to monthly retainers in the low thousands. I start every site with the $99 audit, scope a one-off fix when that is all it needs, and work a few days a month when there is content and local work worth doing. No contract beyond the month.