Squarespace spreads its SEO controls across several menus, so removing one can be surprisingly confusing. Site owners usually want to delete an SEO setting for a specific reason: an old page title still shows a previous business name, a keyword-stuffed description was added by a former contractor, a duplicate page is competing with the real one, or a third-party SEO app injected code that needs to go. Whatever the reason, the important thing is knowing which setting controls what, because clearing the wrong field can remove a page from search results entirely.

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Understand What You Are Deleting

Squarespace has three layers of SEO settings. Site-level settings under Marketing and then SEO control your site title format and site description. Page-level settings live in each page's settings panel under the SEO tab and control the SEO title and description for that page only. Finally, code injection and third-party extensions can add meta tags independently. Before deleting anything, note whether the text you want gone appears on one page, across the whole site, or is injected by code, because each requires a different fix.

Delete a Page SEO Title or Description

Open the Pages panel, hover over the page and click the settings gear, then choose the SEO tab. You will see the SEO title and SEO description fields. Clear the text and save. When these fields are empty, Squarespace falls back to the page title and site description, which is often perfectly acceptable. If you simply want different text rather than none, replace it instead of clearing it, because a hand-written description usually earns more clicks than an automatic fallback.

Remove Site-Wide SEO Text

To change text that appears on every page, go to Marketing and then SEO in the main menu. Here you can edit the site title format used in browser tabs and search results and the site-wide search engine description. Clear or rewrite these fields and save. If the outdated text still appears after saving, it is almost certainly coming from code injection or an extension rather than from these fields.

Delete Injected SEO Code and Extensions

Check Settings, then Advanced, then Code Injection, and inspect both the header and footer boxes for meta tags, verification codes, or scripts added by a previous provider. Remove only the lines you recognise as unwanted, and copy the original contents into a note first so you can restore anything you break. Then review Settings and Extensions to disconnect SEO apps that are no longer used, since disconnected apps sometimes leave residual markup that must be deleted manually.

Delete an Entire Page Without Losing Rankings

If the goal is removing a whole page, first check its performance in Google Search Console and any analytics you have. If the URL attracts traffic or links, do not simply delete it. Instead, create a redirect under Settings, then Developer Tools, then URL Mappings, sending the old path to the closest equivalent page with a permanent redirect. Only then move the page to the Not Linked section or delete it. Without a redirect, visitors and link equity both land on a 404.

Hide a Page From Search Instead of Deleting

Sometimes the right answer is to keep the page but remove it from search results. In the page settings SEO tab, enable the option that hides the page from search engine results, which applies a noindex tag. This is ideal for thank-you pages, internal resources, and duplicate landing pages you still need for campaigns. Remember that hiding a page in the navigation is not the same as removing it from search; unlinked pages remain indexable unless you set noindex.

Clear Image and Social Metadata

Unwanted preview images come from the social sharing image set in each page's settings under Social Image, or from the site-wide logo and sharing image under Marketing. Replace or remove those, then refresh the cached preview using the sharing debugger of the relevant platform. Also review image filenames and alt text if a previous provider stuffed keywords into them, since those signals are visible to crawlers.

Verify the Change Took Effect

Open the affected page in a private browsing window and view the page source to confirm the old meta tags are gone. Use the URL Inspection tool in Search Console and request reindexing so the change is picked up sooner. Search results can take several days to weeks to update, and Squarespace caches aggressively, so give it time before assuming the edit failed. Keep an eye on impressions and clicks for those URLs over the following month.

Final Thoughts

Deleting an SEO setting in Squarespace is straightforward once you know which layer controls the text, but the consequences are not always obvious. Clear page fields for local changes, edit the Marketing SEO panel for site-wide text, strip injected code for stubborn tags, and always redirect before removing a URL. If you want a specialist to audit and rebuild your Squarespace SEO properly, our digital marketing team works with businesses worldwide.