Squarespace splits meta descriptions across different locations depending on content type. For regular pages, click the page in your Pages panel, then hit the gear icon to open Settings, and you'll see SEO settings with a Page Description field that holds your meta description. For your homepage specifically, go to Marketing → SEO in the main navigation and look for Homepage Description near the top. Blog posts work differently. When editing a post, you'll find an Options tab in the left sidebar with an Excerpt field. That excerpt serves as both the preview text in your blog index and the meta description for search engines. If you leave it blank, Squarespace pulls the first 100–150 characters of your post content, which usually produces garbage results for search snippets. The interface varies slightly between Squarespace 7.0 and 7.1, but the SEO settings location stays mostly consistent. Version 7.1 streamlines things a bit more. One gotcha: Squarespace limits meta descriptions to roughly 300 characters, but Google typically truncates at 155–160 characters on desktop and sometimes extends to 300+ on mobile. We recommend staying under 155 characters to avoid cut-offs in most search results. For product pages in Squarespace Commerce, the meta description lives in the product editor under the Additional Info tab. Collection pages pull from Settings → SEO within that collection's settings. The scattered approach makes bulk editing tedious if you're optimizing dozens of pages at once, unlike WordPress where plugins let you manage everything in one view. At Ottawa SEO, when we audit Squarespace sites, we typically find 60–70% of pages either missing meta descriptions or using Squarespace's auto-generated snippets that just grab body text. That tanks click-through rates because the snippet doesn't compel anyone to click. If you're managing a 20+ page Squarespace site, budget 2–3 hours to write proper descriptions for every page and product. It's manual work, but it's also one of the fastest wins for improving organic traffic quality on the platform.