SEO On Squarespace — What Works And What To Watch
Squarespace and SEO
Squarespace is a well-designed, clean platform that handles many SEO basics correctly out of the box. It's a good choice for service businesses, portfolios, and smaller sites.
What Squarespace does well
- Clean, fast-loading templates with good Core Web Vitals
- Editable meta titles and descriptions
- Automatic XML sitemaps
- SSL included as standard
- Built-in mobile responsiveness
Squarespace's limitations
- Limited plugin ecosystem: No equivalent of Yoast or Rank Math.
- Schema markup: Limited structured data options — custom schema requires injecting code manually.
- URL structure: Some URL elements are fixed by the platform.
Our approach on Squarespace
We make the most of the built-in SEO tools, work carefully with available URL and page structure, and use code injection for schema where needed.