However, since we are always innovating, we are also experimenting with new ways to help the overall CX (customer experience).
In case you have purchased a Code from us (for special access):
Please follow the instructions you were provided with and see that some codes only work for brand new accounts. Which means, you will need a new account with a different email address.
Remember: some special codes might only be for new accounts created using the special links you are provided with when purchasing your code. They send you to create the account using a special form. Please use that one, to ensure that your account will work well.
Contact support@squirrly.co if you need extra help.
What is License Stacking?
Updates to Stacking:
Ever since 2017, when we shifted from Squirrly SEO 2016 to Squirrly SEO 2017, we removed all Unlimited Websites plans from our catalogues (except for clients who were already on those plans).
Of course, there were still agencies, freelancers, and bloggers with multiple projects (over 7) and they wanted more than the 7 sites offered by the classic PRO version.
The Agency plan for Squirrly SEO offered up to 50 sites, but for some clients that was too much of a stretch.
So, by the time we released Squirrly SEO 2018 (in April 2017), the concept of License Stacking was born.
Not exactly an innovation, since AppSumo (and all their software partners) were already offering stacking deals. The more packages you bought, the higher the account limits got.
This was a good thing for most of our users.
Until recently, our users bought multiple licenses under the same account in order to improve:
maximum number of sites under the account.
Sadly, this was all it did, and we finally had time to give license stacking a well-deserved upgrade.
At the end of 2020, we’ve experimented with a new way of stacking subscriptions and licenses and we now go beyond just improving total number of sites under the account.
With stacked licenses, you can now get on PRO Plans (on top of the website limits):
more keyword researches/account
more focus pages/account
And on the Business Plans, by stacking multiple subscriptions (or even by stacking a PRO with a Business Plan) you get:
more SERP Checker credits (upgraded from the initial 3,000 position checks/month)
a lot more focus pages/account
See this image (below) for one of our accounts where we stacked 3x Business Plan subscriptions:
(14 sites already added to it, and about 3,000 SERP Checker credits already used this month; therefore, what’s written there is the remaining things for Jan 2021)
^^ As you can see this is a very solid plan for very active sites and multiple projects. Which could have never been covered by the basic Business Plan.
Now with the upgraded License stacking system, we got a lot more than just 21 total sites in the account.
So, depending on the plans you combine you can now increase:
total websites / account
total keyword research credits/account
total number of focus pages/account
total SERP Checker credits/account
Why is there a limit of Focus Pages in Squirrly SEO?
The limit of Focus Pages per site is something that’s meant to help you stay focused on the work that needs to be done so that you can more easily reach your ranking goals.
Focusing on a few Focus Pages at once is more than enough as you have to complete all task associated with Google’s top ranking factors.
Once you start ranking in the top 10 with a Focus Page, you can change the Focus Page and focus on another Focus Page.
There are big companies that have teams working with ~ 5 Landing Pages per website. There is a huge amount of work for each Focus Page to rank it in the TOP 10 of Google, so adding more of them will just make your SEO Strategy harder to execute.
How Can I Change My Squirrly Account?
In this short tutorial, we’re going to show you how to change an account that’s currently connected to Squirrly SEO. This may come in handy in situations such as:
you’ve created a Squirrly SEO account using the wrong email address, want to disconnect it from Squirrly SEO and connect with the correct email address
you want to change and old account used to connect to Squirrly with a new account
Let’s get to it!
Step 1: In your WordPress Admin Menu, go to “Plugins”
Step 2: Find Squirrly SEO in your list of Installed Plugins
Step 3: Deactivate Squirrly SEO
Click on Deactivate. This will prompt a new panel to appear (shown in the screenshot below). From this panel:
Tick the box that reads: Disconnect from Squirrly Cloud
Then click on either Submit & Deactivate OR Skip & Deactivate
Step 4: Go back to your list of Installed Plugins. Activate Squirrly SEO
Step 5: Create a New Account to Connect your site to Squirrly SEO
How Can I Change the Main Keyword for a Focus Page?
One of the factors that the Focus Pages system takes into account when generating tasks and calculating a page’s chances of ranking is the MAIN keyword for which you’ve optimized that page using the SEO Live Assistant (SLA).
The SEO Live Assistant (SLA) allows you to optimize your content for multiple keywords, but you CAN’T have more than one keyword set as the main keyword for your Focus Pages at the same time.
To indicate which keyword is currently set as your main keyword for a page you’ve added as a Focus Page – Squirrly will place a ★STAR SYMBOL next to it.
*as you can see in the screenshot below.
However, you can change the main keyword for your Focus Pages whenever you want – right from the Focus Pages section.
Here’s how to do it:
1️⃣ Go to Squirrly SEO > Focus Pages from your WordPress Dashboard.
2️⃣ Once inside the Focus Pages section, click on the Keyword Element corresponding to the Focus Page for which you want to change the main keyword.
Once you click on the Keyword Element:
On the right side of the screen, you will see all the keywords for which you’ve optimized that Focus Page using the SLA, alongside the optimization percentage achieved for each keyword.
View an example of how this looks like in the screenshot below:
Again, the keyword that’s currently your main keyword associated with that Focus Page will have a ★STAR symbol next to it.
3️⃣ To change the main keyword for your Focus Page, click on the list of keywords located at the right side of the screen. (as shown in the screenshot below)
4️⃣ Clicking on the list of keywords will prompt a new panel to appear.
From the drop-down, select the keyword you want the Focus Pages system to recognize as the main keyword for your Focus Page. Click on Save Main Keyword to save your settings.
5️⃣ The final step is to Request a New Audit to update the report and receive fresh information.
Once you Request a New Audit, the Focus Pages system will start taking into account the new main keyword you’ve selected to calculate your chances of rankings and generate keyword-related tasks for your next report.
And your changes will be visible in the keywords list that appears on the right side of the screen when you click on the Keyword Element for your Focus Page (namely: the new keyword you’ve selected as the main keyword will have the ★ S T A R symbol next to it).
Note! If you want to further optimize your page (increase the optimization percentages or optimize for more keywords), you can click on Optimize for this.
Once you click on Optimize for this, Squirrly will take you to Edit Post where you can use the SEO Live Assistant to optimize for multiple keywords you previously saved to Briefcase.
Now You Know
By selecting the main keyword for your Focus Page – you’re basically telling our Focus Pages system:
This is the keyword I want you to take into account when calculating my Focus Page’s chances of ranking and configuring to-dos because this is the main keyword I’m interested in ranking for with this Focus Page.
And now you know how to do it – right from the Focus Pages section of Squirrly SEO.
Important Notes!
Squirrly will sync the information related to which is a page’s main keyword.
Meaning:
If you change the main keyword inside the SEO Live Assistant for a page you’ve added as a Focus Page, our Focus Pages system will consider that keyword to be the main keyword when calculating the chances of ranking and generating tasks.
And vice-versa. Changing the main keyword for your Focus Page from the Focus Pages section will also change the main keyword inside the SEO Live Assistant.
Is there a Way to Remove the no-index Pages from the Sitemap using Squirrly?
Q: Is there a way to remove the no-index pages from the sitemap? I get the following recommendation: Pages with the no-index meta tag have been found in the XML sitemap. This is confusing for search engines since sitemaps should only list pages that have to be crawled and indexed.
A: Yes, you can use Squirrly SEO to remove the no-index pages from the sitemap.
The easiest way to do this is to go to: Squirrly SEO > SEO Configuration > Tweaks and Sitemap > Sitemap XML and ACTIVATE the option: Automatically exclude from sitemap the URLs with‘Noindex.’
You also can do this by post type using the Automation > Configuration functionality. Simply select the post type and switch off: “Include In Sitemap”.
Once you do this, the SaaS part of Squirrly SEO will help you with your SEO, and the code-changing features will be left to your themes and plugins.
The SEO Live Assistant works on the front-end of Thrive Architect. You can use it to optimize and enhance your content, just as you’re creating or editing your Thrive Architect page.
You can do Multiple Keyword Optimization using the Live Assistant together with Briefcase in the Thrive Architect Editor.
All you have to do is make sure the Activate Live Assistant in Frontend option from Squirrly is turned ON. You can access this option from Squirrly > Live Assistant > Settings.
Does Squirrly SEO work with Divi-based sites?
Yea, Squirrly SEO works with Divi-based sites and provides:
full Support for Technical SEO on Divi Builder and Divi Theme from Elegant Themes;
full support for the rankings and audits made for pages created using Divi;
Content Optimization Help. The SEO Live Assistant from Squirrly works on the front-end of Divi, just as you’re creating or editing your Divi page.
Q: Does Squirrly SEO work seamlessly with any themes (without using any page builders) the same way Rankmath and Yoast work with Elementor? Especially Blocksy and BricksBuilder. With Blocksy, I’m trying to use only Gutenberg and want to ditch page builders.
A: Yes, it does. It works awesomely with Elementor.
The SEO Live Assistant Module of Squirrly SEO works on the front-end of Elementor, just as you’re creating or editing your Elementor page. We were the first to integrate our real-time SEO Live Assistant with it on the front end while editing. It works very well with Gutenberg as well.
The SEO Live Assistant from Squirrly works on the front-end of Bricks , just as you’re creating or editing your Bricks page. You can do Multiple Keyword Optimization using the Live Assistant together with Briefcase in the Bricks Editor.
As an agency, if a client stops using us, what should we do with installed Squirrly on their website?
Using the Web Dev Kit allows you to customize Squirrly SEO and install it on your clients’ sites.
In Squirrly SEO, you have the option to either temporarily disconnect a site or completely delete a website from your account (from the Cloud App). You can always reconnect a disconnected site. Disconnecting a site won’t DELETE it from the Squirrly Cloud. All information will continue to be stored, in case you want to restore the connection.
Deleting a site will lead to all information related to optimizations made, keyword research, and more to be deleted for that site as well. We don’t recommend deleting a site unless you are 100% sure you will no longer need that website.
However, even if you delete a site from your account, your clients won’t lose optimizations made using the SEO Live Assistant, for example. That content will continue to be optimized even after you stop using Squirrly on their site.
