Use your site's built-in search feature to find content or set up a search page for your visitors.

Every Squarespace site has a built-in search function that anyone can access by adding a /search to the end of your domain. You can use this page as an internal tool to quickly find site content, or you can use it to create a public search page.

For a full list of site content indexed for search, visit Adding search to your site.

Open the search page

To access your search page, add /search to the end of your domain in your browser address bar.

You can add this to your built-in domain:

your-domain.squarespace.com/search

Or to a custom domain:

yourdomain.com/search

The search field works similarly to the search block and other search engines: just enter search terms and results will auto-populate. Click any result to go to that page.

Create a public search page

To create a search option in your navigation, you can add the search URL as a navigation link. This is useful for adding a search feature to the top of your site if your template doesn't support search blocks in its header.

In the Pages panel, click the + icon to add a new page and choose the Link option.

In the Link Title field, enter a title for the link as it will display in the menu, for example, "Search." Then add your search page URL in the Link field. Click Save to create the link.

You’ll now have a search page accessible from your navigation.

FAQ

Can I hide my search page from search engines?

Your site's robots.txt file automatically tells search engines not to crawl the /search URL.

Previously, this wasn't the case. If you still see your built-in search page in search results, you can wait for the search engine to reindex your site or verify your site with Google search console to manually request a reindex.

Can I redesign or delete my search page?

It’s not possible to redesign or delete the search page. However, your search page will reflect any site-wide styles that you’ve set. It will also include your site title, navigation, and footer.

Note: In the Avenue, Five, Wexley, Farro family, and York family templates, content added to per-page header, intro, or footer areas on the System Default 404 page also appears on the /search page.

If you prefer to use a customized search page, we recommend creating a new page that uses the search block. If you create your own search page, you'll need to use a URL slug different than /search.

Tip: If a visitor presses Return or Enter after entering a query in a search block, the results will open in the /search page.

Why isn’t my search query generating results?

Try the following steps to generate search results:

• Clear your browser’s cache, as it could be loading an earlier version of your site. You can also disable browser extensions or try a different browser.
• Remove any page passwords and your site-wide password.
• Ensure that the content that we index for search includes terms in your search query.

If you're still not seeing results after following these troubleshooting steps, contact us so we can try to reset your site's search on our end.