¶ Sexy Voice Introduction
I've got to break out the sexy voice for this one .
Yeah , it's great .
Actually I don't know how sexy it is , it doesn't feel sexy . Unfortunately it comes with a sore throat and a cough and the sniffles .
Yeah .
But here it goes anyway . Yeah , we're going to talk about Squarespace today .
Oh , I'm very , very excited about it .
Meredith's face just became a droopy mess . So this episode is going to be for anybody who is already on Squarespace , using Squarespace , and anybody who's thinking about using Squarespace , or either a website for the first time or changing to
¶ Is Squarespace Right For You?
Squarespace . I've got some good stuff for you today .
That was my next question .
If you have nothing to do with Squarespace . If you have nothing to do with Squarespace , you don't plan on using Squarespace , then there's not going to be a whole lot beneficial for you here .
Except jokes .
Other than listening to my sexy voice .
Which I gotta say as the wife I like it .
Okay , so Squarespace ? So I do not like Squarespace for a one major reason it is not good for SEO .
Yeah , that's what I think we've learned that .
Yeah , and I've , I mean it's better than it used to be . But I have always told people , if people come to me as a consultant and are considering or planning or have a website on Squarespace , the first thing I say is
¶ Squarespace Limitations and SEO Issues
that is a long-term business solution . It is just not a business solution . Now , what I do like about it is that it's super easy , Like it is by far easier to create a website on Squarespace than any other platform I know of .
I think of it kind of like Legos , like anybody can play with Legos , like it's easy to play with Legos and you can build a house with Legos , but would you really want to live in that house , or would you want to live in a house made of , like you know , house stuff ?
Wood , wood , glass Same . Thing .
Same thing , and if yeah , so if you're just looking to start , to get started , then it's an okay solution , that's what I did . But in your future plan that you're going to migrate at some point .
Yeah , yeah , because we didn't . We use my site also as kind of an .
Your site actually is right now on Squarespace . Yeah , and we did that because I wanted to design my own . You , yes , yeah , and we did that because I wanted to design my own .
You yes , because you got tired of saying here I worked , I spent months and months on it . What do you think about it ?
I remember . I remember the phrase yeah , I hate it . Yeah , I remember the phrase I hate it Hearing that one a lot . But . But in my , in my own defense , I have to say you got a lot of clients through it , right ? yeah even if you didn't like it . But anyway . So I digress , so I go back .
So we decided yeah , you're going to design , you want to control the aesthetic of your own site . Fair enough , you know . So let's use Squarespace . A whole lot easier for you to do that than it would be on WordPress or ShowIt or Wix , or anything else literally Right .
Now since then since you have done that , unfortunately I have learned the fundamentals of Squarespace . I know a lot about Squarespace . Now I know where a lot of the shortcomings are and a lot of the things I learned very much the hard way . Only looking back , or months after the fact , I discovered that something really bad and really basic is happening .
I'm like oh shit , that is like fundamental . If I make those mistakes ,
¶ Wix as a Powerful Alternative
most likely other people are making those mistakes also . So what I have done is I created a fundamentals course , a little mini course . I won't call it a course , it's like a series of things .
If you are thinking about putting a site on Squarespace , or you already have a site on Squarespace , there's a few things that you really got to do , you really have to do , and they might not . There's a chance that it might not be problems for you , right , like I don't know , but there's , I think , a good chance that they will be issues Okay .
So I will say , if you are thinking about , if you are considering Squarespace , because it's easy something else I would recommend you consider is Wix . Oh , I love that . Now , wix used to be terrible . They were so much worse than Squarespace . Wix has been completely revamped in the last couple years and I only became aware of it on two different occasions .
Number one , a colleague of mine super smart guy really knows his stuff told me how much better Wix was .
And .
I was like , okay , that's it . I didn't really believe him , but I'm like that's interesting if he really thinks that . And then Google , google , they didn't recommend , but they kind of praised Wix for the stuff they were doing , which is very rare . I've never heard Google praise another company , really especially like a website builder , things like that .
They usually don't mention anything by name , they don't want to give recommendations , they don't want to go on record as saying yes or no , anything like that . But somebody at Google , a very high person in what I would consider the SEO portion of their company , said what a wonderful job Wix has been doing .
So then I checked it out and it is amazing what they are doing Holy smokes .
how so ?
Well , I'll have to get into that in another episode . But so my point my point , yes , my point . If you are thinking about Squarespace , Wix is also pretty easy . I would say it's probably not as easy as building a website on Squarespace , but the difference is , if you learn Wix , you can stay on Wix . Like it has it is a powerful SEO solution .
It's really good , whereas if you go on Squarespace , like I said , you're going to need to change at some point in the future .
So when you change , let's just say , oh . Let's just say my website is on Squarespace and I wanted to switch it to another thing , another browser .
Platform .
Do I then need to recreate it on that platform ?
That's going to be another episode also .
Oh , okay .
Yeah , there's a bunch there to unpack .
Okay , tune in for Merit and Susbin , the new episode how to Change your Platform .
Okay , so that's something to consider . If you are considering Squarespace , throw Wix in there . Take a look , see what you think . It is not quite as easy . It's not like Legos . It's more like what are those peg things that you can build stuff with ?
It's like a remember that as a kid , the magnetic ones .
No , they were like sticks and they had like there were wood things . It was like .
Oh yeah , pickup sticks , no , that's a different thing .
It's some sort of building . We use pickup sticks .
Oh logs , Lincoln logs .
No , I don't think so . I don't know . Anyway , as you can see by the brilliant point I've just made , wix is a little bit harder . It's a little bit harder than Legos . Now , if you consider Wix and you're like no , I like Squarespace , or if you're already on Squarespace , like I said sometimes , it's the right solution .
I have a fundamentals mini course that you can go check out . It's in the paid section of Meredith's husband .
So it's not free , but you can get a free trial . That will be plenty of time to go through the fundamentals . How about that ? A coupon code ? Is Squarespace fun ? Yeah , that's very nice , kind of a sneak peek .
Kind of a sneak peek .
Or let's focus and use this course for free .
Yeah , you can do that . Yeah , use the course for free .
Yeah .
That's what I always say .
And then , if you like it
¶ The Squarespace Fundamentals Mini Course
, you could maybe Venmo a nice thank you .
Well , you can just keep the subscription , if you like .
Oh , you could just keep the subscription . That's even better , easier Because you're already there . That's even better Easier Because you're already there .
Yeah , you literally don't have to do anything .
Okay , so this podcast episode was to direct people saying first off , you have two paths . One , if you are going to use the Squarespace , then check out the . Smash Class yeah the smash class , yeah and uh . Then if you're not just if you're , if you're in a place where you're thinking about it , also consider wicks . That's the cliff note of this yes
¶ Episode Summary and Next Steps
episode yes , I'm as I . I'm so smart . Where's my diploma ?
it actually is pretty good I should . I should use that for something .
I have no clue what you're talking I don't , don't know , I have no idea . This is not uncommon .
If you're listening and you don't have any clue either . This is kind of my life . She asked me to open the sink .
That probably means take the carrots out of the fridge .