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SquareSpace.com E-a-s-y Blog Development

I’m on the trial for SquareSpace.com and I’m digging it so far. Squarespace is a blog / website builder platform that lets you literally SLAP together a nice looking – I’d say professional looking blog in minutes. Need a quick 500 bucks? Sell a 5 page website to a client and build it on SquareSpace in like 60 minutes.

It’s got some advanced CSS modification capability meaning you can apparently modify their master stylesheet, BUT, it’s a little hard to work with at my subdued mental capacity without a safety net. I’ve questioned their tech support about the SEO. They have a “I’m much holier and better than thou” explanation why we professional SEO jerkos should NOT NEED meta keywords… and we don’t for the most part – except that SE’s STILL read them even if they supposedly “ignore” the. So I’m looking to manually edit my meta title and meta description field because I am only guessing that my rendition is better than their “lets play I’m a SEO algorithm”. I looked at 5 pages of one of their Mark Ecko example sites and it was MISSING description tags on the 5 pages I checked and 3 of the pages I checked had identical title tags.

<title>The Marc Ecko Blog - The Official Blog of Marc Ecko </title>

If that’s their automatic SEO I can do without it. What was a little freaky about the site in terms of SEO was the homepage was a PR5 and notwithstanding the disaster under the hood with meta tags, it ranked # 5 for “Mark Ecko” on Google… www.beingmarcecko.com
But everything else seemes most beautious SO FAR.  More on this HUGE POTENTIAL for website makers like us.  Cheers !!!!