Overview
This article provides information and answers to commonly asked questions about DreamHost's SEO Toolkit.
Background
The DreamHost SEO Toolkit is an easy-to-use Search Engine Optimization (SEO) tool designed for Small and Medium-sized Businesses (SMBs). It helps you optimize your website for search engines, like Google, and improves your ranking to bring in more traffic.
You don't need to be an expert in SEO or have a lot of technical knowledge to benefit from the SEO Toolkit. The SEO Toolkit scans your website on an ongoing basis and provides a comprehensive SEO report that's easy to read and understand.
Compatibility and restrictions
The SEO Toolkit is compatible with any other fully-hosted website, excluding the following cases:
- Websites hosted on DreamCompute
- Websites hosted in subfolders (example.com/blog)
- Temporary DreamHost domains (such as dreamhosters.com subdomain or .dream.press domains)
WordPress and DreamPress
Changing the name of a site
If you change the domain name of a WordPress or DreamPress website, any SEO progress made is permanently reset. For this reason, it is only recommended that you add the SEO Toolkit after your domain name is set correctly in its final version.
Removing a non-active installation
It is possible that you previously installed WordPress onto your site but then chose to use other software. For example, this would happen if after installing, you decided to create an HTML website instead.
In this case, you must first deactivate the WordPress installation before adding the SEO Toolkit to your site. If you do not, the SEO Toolkit will install into the non-active WordPress files and not function for your HTML site.
To deactivate, visit the Install WordPress panel page and click the Remove from List button for the installation. See this article for more information.
FAQs
How do I add the SEO Toolkit?
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See this article to learn how to add the DreamHost SEO Toolkit to your website.
What billing plans are available?
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When you add the DreamHost SEO Toolkit to your website, you can choose to pay monthly or upfront for a full year. See the billing article for more information.
Does the DreamHost SEO Toolkit automatically increase my SEO score?
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The DreamHost SEO Toolkit is designed as a do-it-yourself tool that helps you analyze your site and provides recommendations, tasks, and instructions for optimizing it; it does not make these changes for you.
I'm already using a different SEO tool — can I import that data into the DreamHost SEO Toolkit?
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No. The DreamHost SEO Toolkit uses a customized system for tracking and managing SEO data. Because of this, data from other SEO tools cannot be imported into it.
Do I need to use WordPress to take advantage of the DreamHost SEO Toolkit?
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The DreamHost SEO Toolkit is available for both WordPress and non-WordPress websites:
- WordPress websites access the SEO Toolkit from the website's own WordPress dashboard.
- Non-WordPress websites access the SEO Toolkit from within the DreamHost panel.
The SEO Toolkit for WordPress websites is installed as a WordPress plugin, and new versions are available regularly. Ensure that you apply updates when they are available. See this article for more information on upgrading WordPress plugins.
Additionally, be aware that the DreamHost SEO Toolkit plugin requires a Gutenberg-compatible WordPress editor.
If I move my website to another URL, will the DreamHost SEO Toolkit data transfer over?
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No. SEO data, backlink information, and traffic are specific to the domain currently in use, and SEO data does not carry over from one URL to another. DreamHost recommends only adding the DreamHost SEO Toolkit once your domain name is finalized.
When can I expect to see results in search engines?
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DreamHost recommends using the data provided by the SEO Toolkit to work on improving your website's SEO at least once per week. The sooner you start the process, the sooner you will start to see results.
Will my competitors know that I'm tracking them?
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No. Only you know who you’re tracking. The competitor tracking feature lets you keep up with your competition without giving them any hint of what you are doing.