Squarespace Basics: Search Bar
Adding a search bar to your website will help visitors find content much easier. The easier you make it for a visitor to come to your website and find what is needed the more they will visit. I must also add that you must be creating useful content for them to come back as well.
You may add a search bar for your entire website or one specific section. The following pages are indexed content and can be displayed in the search bar:
Blog
Layout
Gallery
Events
Store
Album
For a detailed list of information that can be searched on in each of these pages visit Squarespace’s Knowledge Center help guide - Adding search to your site.
Three Squarespace templates support search bars in the header section and have the option built right in.
Brino
Farro
Skye
To add a search block:
Search fields can be added to any content area of the Squarespace website. Searches can be limited to one page or the entire website.
Adding a search bar to the content is easy on each page of your website.
Home > Page > Add Section or go to a section already on the website
Click the + sign and scroll down to the to the Filters & Lists section.
Choose Search.
Once selected you have the choice of searching content from the entire website or a specific page.
If you want to change the design, click the Display section and you can choose light or dark.
The search bar will populate automatically.
I have enabled the Search Bar on my website for my blog page. Take a look.
I have saved the best for last. EVERY Squarespace website has a built-in search feature! Until I researched adding a search bar on Squarespace, I did not know there was another way to search the entire website. In the URL simply type:
your domain.com/search
Just adding the ‘/search’ gives you the ability to search an entire Squarespace website. I will definitely use this. Squarespace has built so much into their websites.
Analytics:
How do you know it works? Squarespace has a way of supporting website owners by providing Analytics for Squarespace websites.
Home menu > Analytics > Site Search Keywords
Look through to see what keywords were used when a visitor searched on your website.
Creating a website takes time. You must make sure that your content, images, and any information you add is current and correct. Then you have to look at your website from a visitor’s perspective. Is it easy to figure out the flow of your website? Can you find what you need fast and easy? If you answer yes to these questions, there is a likelihood visitors will be coming back to your website. To make sure they have an enjoyable and productive time on your website add a search bar that the visitor can easily see.
Good luck! Let me know if this works for you.
