Why Squarespace can’t be connected automatically
Squarespace has no interface that lets other services create blog posts. No tool can publish there for you, so StrideRank offers two other ways. You choose one when you connect your website, and you can switch any time.
| Way | Effort for you | Where articles appear |
|---|---|---|
| Hosted blog | Once: add one menu link | On a blog run by StrideRank, linked from your site |
| Copy & paste | About two minutes per article | In your own Squarespace blog |
Use a hosted blog
StrideRank publishes your articles on a blog website in your StrideRank account, in your colors, at an address like yourbusiness.striderank.com/blog. If your account already has a website there, the articles appear on it under /blog instead.
Choose the hosted blog
In StrideRank, open Settings → SEO autopilot and go to Publishing, or use the connect step during setup. Only owners and admins of the account can change it. Pick Squarespace, then Use a hosted blog. StrideRank sets up the blog and checks it.
Open your blog address
The publishing settings show the address of your blog. Open it once to see your articles and the design.
Link it from your Squarespace site
In Squarespace, open the Pages panel and click + next to the navigation section where the link should go. Choose Link, enter a Link Title such as “Blog”, pick URL in the drop-down and paste your blog address. Optionally turn on Open link in new tab, then click Save.
Visitors and Google find the hosted blog through that link and through the articles themselves. Want it under your own address, like blog.yourbusiness.com? Contact us — we set that up with you.
Copy & paste
Choose copy & paste
In StrideRank, open Settings → SEO autopilot and go to Publishing, or use the connect step during setup. Only owners and admins of the account can change it. Pick Squarespace, then Copy & paste.
Wait for the next article
When an article is ready, we let you know. It waits for you in StrideRank under Articles.
Paste it into Squarespace
Open the article in StrideRank and click Copy. In Squarespace, open your blog page, click + to add a post, paste the article and publish.
Articles stay in StrideRank until you have pasted them. Nothing goes live on your site without you.
Not sure? Let us do it
In the connect step you can also choose Do it for me. We look at your website and set up the best way for it, and tell you what we did.
Questions
Will StrideRank ever publish to Squarespace directly?
Only if Squarespace offers a way to create blog posts from outside. Until then, the hosted blog and copy & paste are the two ways that work.
Can I switch from copy & paste to the hosted blog later?
Yes. Open the publishing settings in StrideRank and choose the other way. Articles you already pasted stay where they are.