Overview of SEO Settings within the Drag and Drop Editor

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What is SEO?
- SEO is short for Search Engine Optimization, or the practice of making edits to your site so that it is picked up and is ranked higher on search engines when people lookup phrases or keywords related to your site.
Why is SEO important?
- SEO determines what page, and how high up on pages within online searches you show when people search topics related to your website. Did you know that only about 7% of users look past the first page of search results when looking up a question?
What features does WebsiteBuilder include in the drag and drop editor to help with SEO?
- Free SLL.
- Mobile editor to optimize the site to make it responsive for all different devices.
- Fast Load Times.
- Ability to customize page titles and descriptions as they appear on search engines.
- Quickly link to internal pages.
- Sitemap automatically created and updated.
- Allows you to add alt text to any stock photos or uploaded images.
- Ability to add a custom Social Share Image that displays when sharing your website on social media.
- Ability to submit your website to search engines.

HostGator is committed to making it easy to transfer your site to your new hosting account. We can transfer website files, databases, scripts, and one free domain registration transfer.

What qualifies me for a free transfer?

HostGator provides free transfers for new accounts within 30 days of sign-up, and to newly upgraded accounts. For upgraded accounts it must be an inter-server upgrade to qualify. Please note that downgraded accounts do not qualify for free transfers.

Depending on which type of account you sign up for, we offer differing numbers of free transfers. Please refer to the chart below to see what we include for new packages.

Full cPanel Transfers is the number of cPanel to cPanel transfers that are included.

Max. Manual Transfers is the maximum number of Manual Transfers that are included with your account.

Total Free Transfers is the total number websites that we will move for you.

Account Type	Total Free Transfers	Full cPanel Transfers	Max. Manual Transfers
?Shared	1	1²	1
?Reseller	30	30²	30
?VPS	Unlimited¹	Unlimited²	10 per VPS level
?Dedicated (Basic)	Unlimited¹	Unlimited²	75
?Dedicated (Standard, Elite, Pro)	Unlimited¹	Unlimited²	100

¹While we can do unlimited cPanel to cPanel transfers for you, depending on your account, you will have a limited number of Manual Transfers.

²Full cPanel transfers include all domains, Addon Domains, Subdomains, and cPanel settings. This will also include your emails and email accounts. Please note that this does require that your old host's cPanel backup generator to be active.

A few examples: An Aluminium Reseller account includes up to 30 free transfers. Out of this 30, you can have 20 cPanel to cPanel transfers and 10 Manual Transfers, or any combination of the two that totals 30 or less websites. Another example: A Pro Dedicated server includes unlimited cPanel to cPanel transfers, this means you can have 150 sites (or even more) moved. Also since there is an unlimited total number of transfers, you can utilize up to 100 Manual Transfers.

For more information please see ourTransfers Support Article, contact our transfers department at transfers@hostgator.com, or call 866.96.GATOR