WEBSITE TRAINING
Hello Jocelyn - welcome to your new digital home! Here are some videos and tips to help you manage your site with confidence and ease. Enjoy and here’s to an incredible relaunch! - Christina
Images & Graphics
All custom graphics are created within Canva, so you can continue to play with and update them. For most custom graphics on the site, you can right-click-save directly from the site. Here are the Canva links:
Square Graphics Portrait Graphics Landscape Graphics
I also curated a cohesive collection of Unsplash images that you can use in the future.
Important: Remember that all images on your site should be no larger than 500KB for optimal loading speed and SEO. See SEO Tips below for more info.
Domain Connection
I recommend connecting (rather than transferring) your Sacred Planet domain to your new site, meaning it will remain hosted with your existing provider (e.g. GoDaddy), but point to your new Squarespace site instead of your WordPress site. When you’re ready to go live, just follow this step-by-step guide to connect your domain to your new site. For GoDaddy it’s just a few quick clicks; for some other platforms it takes a few more steps. You’ll be prompted to subscribe to a Squarespace plan (Business) as you go.
Once the connection is complete, go to Settings > Site Availability, and click ‘Public’ to remove the current password page.
SEO Tips
Images Size: Images should be no bigger than 500KB for optimal loading speed and Google ranking. Big banner images should be around 2000px wide. Bulk Resize Photos is a great site for reducing image sizes while retaining quality. You can also batch resize images to save time.
Image Titles: Use keywords for all image titles, for example, ‘Spiritual Business Courses and Coaching / Online Summit Guide.
Page Titles / Descriptions: Add keyword rich Page Titles and Descriptions to the ‘Settings’ of each page. I have already added these for each existing page, but feel free to go in and tweak. For Index pages, this is just applied to the main index page Settings, not the page sections. Whatever you add to the ‘General’ tab defaults to the ‘SEO’ tab. A note that Google prefers each page descriptions to be slightly different.
Site Title & SEO Site Description: This is what surfaces in Google Search. Like page descriptions, they should be keyword-rich while reading naturally. Double-check that you’re happy with what I’ve created. (For SEO Site Description go to Marketing > SEO).