SEO

Squarespace

On a Squarespace store, Vidrys fixes your product pages' SEO titles and descriptions through Squarespace's own API — the only part of a Squarespace site its API can change. For your other pages, the Fixes list gives the steps in Squarespace.

By Garvit Sharma, Co-founder

SEO → Connections → Squarespace

Connecting

In Squarespace, open Settings → Advanced → Developer API Keys and press Generate key. Squarespace offers API keys on its Commerce Advanced plan.
Name it Vidrys, set Products to Read and Write, and leave everything else off. Copy the key — Squarespace shows it once.
In Vidrys, open SEO → Connections → Squarespace, paste the key and press Connect. Vidrys checks it can read your products and that it belongs to the project's website before keeping it, encrypted.

What it does

A product page's SEO title and description, set as Squarespace's own SEO tab for the product sets them, written only while the product hasn't changed since Vidrys read it, checked on your live store afterwards, and rolled back from Vidrys.

Squarespace shows every product's SEO title inside your site's title format — the product's title, then your site's, by default (Mug — Studio Shop). A new title must keep that format to be written; one that doesn't is refused rather than shown inside it twice. To change the format itself, open Squarespace's SEO settings.

›Why only product pages?

Squarespace's API reaches your store's products and nothing else on your site. A fix approved for another page stops with that reason, and the Fixes list has its steps.

›How do I disconnect?

Remove the connection in Vidrys, and delete the key in Squarespace's Developer API Keys.