You publish a batch of new service pages, wait a week, search for them, and nothing. The usual advice is to submit the URLs in Search Console and wait. That is not wrong, but it skips the step that is actually causing the delay on Squarespace sites, and it can bury a problem that will keep hurting you long after those first pages get indexed.
Squarespace generates your sitemap automatically at yoursite.com/sitemap.xml. That sounds like a solved problem, and most of the time it is. The catch is that the sitemap does not always regenerate the moment you hit publish. We have opened a sitemap days after publishing a dozen new pages and found only two of them listed. Worse, it still included a URL from a page that had been deleted and now returned a 404. Google was being handed a stale map with a dead end on it while the new pages sat unlisted.
Here is the check, and it takes two minutes. Open your sitemap in a browser. Count the URLs and compare that number against the Pages panel in Squarespace. If pages are missing, note which ones. Then open each missing page directly and confirm three things: it loads with a normal 200 response, the page settings do not have it hidden from search engines, and the canonical URL points at itself rather than at some older slug. In our experience the pages themselves are almost always fine. The sitemap is the thing lagging.
What fixes it depends on what you find. If the pages are healthy and only the sitemap is behind, give it a few days. Squarespace regenerates on its own schedule and forcing things rarely speeds it up. If a page is hidden from search or has a wrong canonical, fix that first, because no amount of submitting will get a page indexed that is telling Google to ignore it. If a deleted page is still in the sitemap, set up a redirect from the old slug to the closest live page so the crawl budget is not wasted on a 404.
Only after that should you go into Search Console. Submit the sitemap URL once, then use Request Indexing on the handful of pages that matter most, not all of them. Google throttles those requests, so spend them on the pages you actually want ranking this month.
The reason this matters beyond the first week is that a stale sitemap is a quiet, recurring tax on a site. Every future page you publish inherits the same lag, and every page you delete lingers as a dead entry. Building the two minute check into your publishing routine is what keeps that from compounding.
This is the kind of thing we do as part of SEO work at Burgama. Before we ever ask Google to look at a page, we make sure the page and the map agree.