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Thanks Nigel,

That is my line of thinking as well. I'm in the process of separating the pages of the blog into separate pages. Each post is already optimized with a meta description and from my perspective, I think that having them all on one page is muddying the content.

They do claim to have the HTML5 configured correctly but I'm not seeing any of the blog posts ranking anywhere - only the home page of my site.

This blog set up nonsense was the reason I went over to WP - but after dealing with too many system crashes and bloated themes- I realized, if I was a developer then WP would be perfect, but for me and the little time I want to spend on my website- SS is a good choice.

However, their blog set up is confounding!

Here's a response from the Squarespace forum, does this make sense?

"...HTML5 has changed this by introducing some new semantic tags that each take an h1 tag (article, section, etc). Squarespace uses these new semantic tags to differentiate content such as blog posts and that's why there are multiple h1 tags per page. Search engines are now optimized to account for this so it's not a problem anymore. Some HTML validators will still throw red flags, so that may be why you are getting that advice."

I'm reading that this is acceptable in HTML5 format but am wondering if search engines actually find it acceptable as well?

Thanks guys, that is my thought as well.

I do like Squarespace (I've had experience using SS, Wix, Weebly, and WP) for my business needs. When I had my massage business here in San Diego, I was able to get on the first page of a Google search for my services on a SS site, so I know it can be optimized.

But the blog set up is really funky. The titles of the blog post are automatically set to H1's, so Ceseare, your suggestion wouldn't work because so far I've got around 21 posts and I can't do H2-H21, that would be worthless I think.

They do enable each post to have it's own meta description and tags- but they are showing up all on one page in my Screaming Frog and Ahrefs tools.

Thanks Nigel and Cesare- you guys confirmed that I will go in and just make each blog post its own page. Because each post is already centered around a keyword/phrase.

Hi All,

I use Squarespace and while running my site (https://www.growmassagebusiness.com) through programs am seeing that my blog posts are being seen as one page with multiple H1 tags. I read through the SS help desk and found back in 2015 someone wrote that it's not a bit deal b/c of HTML5 and that the search engines will read each blog post as a sub-page.

I'm not so sure about that and wondering what the experts think?

If that is screwy then I'm considering possibly making each blog post it's own page rather than using their blog posting format.