How To Connect Squarespace Domain To Google Sites 2026 Easily

Start from the Sites project you want the domain attached to. The editor is where you'll build and publish the site itself, and it's also where the custom domain option lives, tucked into the settings menu next to Publish in the top right. Get the site into a publishable state first — even a basic homepage — since Google won't let you finish attaching a domain to a project that has nothing published yet.

Open Set up custom domain and type your domain into the two fields — a subdomain prefix like www, and the root domain itself, for example pmntechfix.nl. Click through toward Next and Google immediately checks whether it can confirm you own that domain.

On a domain that hasn't been verified yet, you'll see a red message right under the fields reading "This domain is not verified. Please verify your ownership" with a link that kicks off the actual verification step — that's expected on a first attempt, not an error in what you typed.

Clicking "verify your ownership" opens Search Console's verification flow for that exact domain. Google recommends the TXT record method by default: it generates a unique string starting with google-site-verification= that you copy, then paste into a new TXT record in your domain's DNS settings.

The dialog spells out the four steps in order — select the record type, sign in to your domain provider, add the record, then come back and press Verify. Leave this Search Console tab open while you make the DNS change, since you'll need to return to it to finish confirming.

Back in your Squarespace account, go to the domain's DNS settings and add a new TXT record using the exact host and value Search Console gave you — paste the google-site-verification string precisely, since a trimmed or altered value won't verify. Save the record, then return to the Search Console tab you left open and click Verify. If it doesn't confirm right away, that's normal; DNS records don't propagate instantly, and Search Console itself warns that it may need a day before the record is visible.

Verification only proves ownership — it doesn't route traffic. Back in Google Sites, finishing the custom domain setup gives you the actual DNS records to route your domain's traffic to Sites, typically a CNAME for the www subdomain and A records for the root domain.

Add these in the same Squarespace DNS settings screen alongside the TXT record. Both changes can sit in DNS together; one proves ownership, the other does the actual pointing.

DNS changes spread across the internet gradually rather than instantly, so it's normal for the domain to keep resolving to its old destination for anywhere from a few minutes to a full day after you save the records. Once propagation catches up, load your domain directly in a browser and confirm it lands on your Google Sites content rather than a Squarespace placeholder page or a certificate warning. If it's still not resolving after a day, double-check the exact host and value on each DNS record against what Google Sites specified — a typo there is the most common reason this step drags on.