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Two Days at BrightonSEO Spring 2026: A Squarespace Designer on the Stand

There's a particular feeling that comes from standing behind a Squarespace booth at the world's largest search marketing conference. Picture it: thousands of SEOs in The Brighton Centre, most of them flush with opinions about AI Overviews, GEO, knowledge graphs and the death of the blue link, and a steady flow of them walking up to ask if Squarespace can actually do SEO.

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Why I Stopped Sending Proposals

For years, every Squarespace project enquiry got the same treatment: a detailed proposal. Scope, timeline, deliverables, terms, pricing breakdown. Beautifully formatted PDF. Very professional. Two to three hours of work, every single time.

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Should I DIY it or Hire a Squarespace Web Designer?

Maybe you are in the process of setting up your own business? Next up on the to do list is: get a website. You have a bit of a creative background and you have heard of this website platform called Squarespace. You think ‘I could have a go at this myself.’ Proceeding to look further down your long list of things to do, you begin to feel overwhelmed by the prospect.

Perhaps hiring a web designer would be the best way forward? But you are reticent; there are a lot of other upfront costs to factor in. Back and forth you go, neither solution having the edge. You remain comfortably - as they put it - on the fence.

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