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If you search for your business and your Squarespace site does not appear, the cause is usually a setting you can fix yourself rather than something broken. This guide walks through where to click and what to check, in the order that solves the problem fastest. It is not made by, partnered with or endorsed by Squarespace.
A brand new site often stays private until you turn that off. While it is private, search engines cannot see the pages at all, so nothing else you change will help.
In Squarespace, open settings, then site visibility. Make sure the site is set to public rather than private or password protected. If you added a site-wide password while building, remove it once you are ready for customers to find you.
Squarespace lets you hide a page from search results. Open the page settings, then the SEO tab, and look for an option that blocks search engines from indexing that page. If it is switched on for your home page or service pages, turn it off.
While you are there, write a clear title and description for each important page. Use the words your customers actually type, along with your city or service area, and keep it readable rather than stuffed with keywords.
Search Console is the free tool that shows whether Google can see your site. Verify ownership, then use the URL inspection box to check your home page. It will tell you if the page is indexed, blocked or simply not seen yet.
Squarespace builds a sitemap for you automatically at your domain followed by /sitemap.xml. Submit that address in the sitemaps section so Google has a tidy list of everything you want found. You can also request indexing for a page you just changed.
Indexing is not instant. A new site or a new page can take days, and sometimes longer, before it appears. During that time, keep publishing real content rather than changing settings over and over.
Searching your business name in a browser you are already signed into can be misleading. Instead, use the URL inspection tool in Search Console, which tells you exactly what Google has stored for that page.
Once your site is visible, the next question is whether each page answers a real customer question. A home page with only a photo and a slogan gives Google little to work with.
Add a page for each main service with a few short paragraphs, your service area, your phone number and your hours. Keep your name, address and phone the same here as in your free business profile at business.google.com, since mismatched details confuse both customers and search engines.
Slow pages and shifting layouts frustrate visitors. Run your home page through pagespeed.web.dev and look at three measures: Largest Contentful Paint, which is good at 2.5 seconds or less and poor over 4 seconds, Cumulative Layout Shift at 0.1 or below, and Interaction to Next Paint at 200 milliseconds or less.
Large uncompressed images in banners are a common cause. Resize photos before uploading and trim any gallery or video block you do not need.
This guide was written with AI help and checked by an automatic honesty filter (no made-up numbers, no ranking promises). It is general information, not professional advice.
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