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Once you’ve logged in to your Squarespace account, go to the pages menu.

Add a new not linked page and choose ‘folder’ for the page type. Name it something meaningful, eg “freebies”.

Click add page under the folder name and choose “link” for the page type.

In the ‘create a link’ pane, enter a title for the file you’re about to upload. It’s just for your own reference.

Click the cog at the bottom right of the pane to open the Link Editor.

Choose ‘File’ from the list on the left.

Click ‘Upload File’ which is in blue (you may have to scroll down to see it if you already have some files uploaded).

Select the file from your computer. It will be uploaded and added to the list of files.

Click on the name of the file that you uploaded. A tick will appear to the left of the file name. The three dots to the right of the file name allow you to rename or delete the file. (The URL that Squarespace gives to each uploaded file is determined by the name of the file that you upload).

Click the ‘open in new window’ slider to turn that setting on.

Click save.

Back in the ‘create a link’ pane you’ll see the ‘slug’ created for your file by Squarespace. Select this text and copy it by pressing cmd + C on a Mac or ctrl + C on a PC. A slug is part of a URL and is what you add on to your domain name in order to get the full URL for your hosted file.

Open a new browser tab. Type in your domain name and then press cmd + V (or ctrl + V) to paste. So you’ll be entering www.yourdomain.com/sluggiventoyourfilebysquarespace. This is the full URL of the freebie and what you will give to your subscribers.

Press enter.

Your freebie file should appear on screen and this is how it will appear to your subscribers when they click on the link that you will give them. Squarespace convert that URL to a much longer one which begins with ‘static1’… . This also works if you choose to provide this as the URL/link for your subscribers.

To add another freebie, just click add page under the freebies folder that you created in step 2 and repeat the above steps.

If you ever choose to change the name of the file as I mentioned in step 9, and you do it after you have created the link, make sure you update the URL that you give to your subscribers.

If you need to check or copy the slug for your uploaded file at a later date, you can easily do that by going to your freebies folder in the not linked pages section, click on the cog next to the name of your linked file and the ‘edit link’ pane will open. You’ll see the file’s slug there.