tips and tweaks on migrating to magento!
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Tips and tweaks on Migrating to
Magento!
Paul Ryazanov
Director of marketing
QuartSoft Corp.
T. 380 (95) 140-07-16
quartsoft.com
Oleg Cherevatyy
Commercial Director
Cart2Cart product
shopping-cart-migration.com
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Reason for migration?
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Migrate from
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Migrate to
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Migration plan
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- Analyze current
store
- Prepare webhosting
- Customize Magento
- Verify SEO
- Data migration
- Store launch
- Post migration
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Migration plan
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- Analyze current
store
- Prepare webhosting
- Customize Magento
- Verify SEO
- Data migration
- Store launch
- Post migration
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Analyze current store
Pros and cons of current site
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- Features you don’t use
anymore
- Features you are using
- Features your customers
want
- Usability report
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Analyze current store
Analyze traffic
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- Traffic report
(for 3-6 recent months)
- Countries sending traffic
(you may want to add languages in Magento)
- Paid and organic traffic
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Analyze current store
Report from Search engines
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- Traffic from different SE
- Keywords rank in SE and
position
- PR of current website
- PPC campaign data
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Analyze current store
ROI
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- Amount of sales report
- Repeated sales
- Average bill
- % conversion
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Analyze current store
Link report
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- Sitemap
- Internal links and cross
linking
- Incoming links
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Migration plan
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- Analyze current
store
- Prepare webhosting
- Customize Magento
- Verify SEO
- Data migration
- Store launch
- Post migration
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Prepare webhosting
Hosting requirements
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- VPS
- Apache 2.x, Nginx
- PHP 5.2.13+ (safe_mode off)
- MySQL 4.1.20+ (InnoDB storage engine)
- Ability to run scheduled jobs (crontab)
- Ability to override options in
.htaccess files
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Prepare webhosting
Access requirements
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- Domain control
panel
- Hosting control
panel
- SSH
- FTP
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Prepare webhosting
Webhosting Settings
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- Magento installation
- SSL certificates
- Specific server settings
(memory_limit no less than 512Mb, separate server for static/database is
recommended)
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Migration plan
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- Analyze current
store
- Prepare webhosting
- Customize Magento
- Verify SEO
- Data migration
- Store launch
- Post migration
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Customize Magento
UI Design
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- Improve design – keep good and do
the best
- Use the Magento Theme
- Utilize Magento templates
- Transfer a couple of products,
content to test
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Customize Magento
Core Modules Configuration
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- Shipping module
(USPS, UPS, FedEx, DHL and other)
- Payment gateways
(PayPal, Google, Authorize.net,
Moneybookers)
- SEO components
(Friendly Url, Meta, Permalinks)
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Customize Magento
Add-On Modules Configuration
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Customize Magento
Canonical URL for Magento
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This extension adds the new
canonical links to the head
of your Magento pages
http://www.magentocommerce.com/mag
ento-connect/canonical-url-for-
magento.html
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Customize Magento
MetaRobots
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There's no easy way to
control meta robots tags to
Magento pages, unless of
course, when you install
this module.
http://www.magentocommerce.com/mag
ento-connect/yoast-metarobots.html
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Customize Magento
Google AdWords Conversion
Tracking
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This module integrates
Google AdWords Conversion
Tracking into Magento. It
will add the conversion
tracking code to the
onepage checkout success
page.
http://www.magentocommerce.com/mag
ento-connect/luka-google-adwords-
conversion-tracking.html
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Customize Magento
Social Booster
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Everyone knows how social media
optimization (SMO) is highly
important for the site. Nowadays,
when millions of people are
connected in social networks,
share news, images, articles and
just chatting, the next major
challenge for online business is
to leverage all this to develop
the business.
http://www.magentocommerce.com/magento-
connect/social-booster.html
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Customize Magento
Data Feed Manager
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Create csv, txt and xml data
feeds for any search engines,
shopping engines or market
places.
http://www.magentocommerce.com/magento-
connect/data-feed-manager.html
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Customize Magento
OneStep Checkout Extension
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This OneStep Checkout
extension will increase
your sales by combining 6
steps in checkout process
to 1.
http://www.magentocommerce.com/m
agento-connect/i-checkout-
onestep-checkout-extension.html
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Customize Magento
Gift Certification
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Allow your customers to
purchase and use Gift
Certificates.
http://www.magentocommerce.com/m
agento-connect/unirgy-
giftcert.html
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Customize Magento
Magento Optimization
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Customize Magento
Speedster
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Speed up your store by
combining, compressing and
caching JS and CSS.
http://www.magentocommerce.com/magent
o-connect/fooman-speedster.html
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Customize Magento
HTML Minification
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Simple and light extension
which minifies HTML. It
reduces html document size
by approx. 10 - 15%.
http://www.magentocommerce.com/mage
nto-connect/html-minification-by-
jemoon.html
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Customize Magento
Nitrogento
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Nitrogento is made to
Boost Magento page load
time through many
optimization mechanisms.
http://www.magentocommerce.com/ma
gento-connect/nitrogento.html
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Migration plan
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- Analyze current
store
- Prepare webhosting
- Customize Magento
- Verify SEO
- Data migration
- Store launch
- Post migration
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Verify SEO
Content
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- Keep optimized content
- Create more valuable
pages
- Check Meta Title and
Description
- Alt tags for images
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Verify SEO
URL Migration
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- SEO friendly URLs
- 301 redirect from old URL’s to new
ones
- Custom 404 error page (track non-linked URLs)
- Robots.txt file (make sure its open for bots)
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Verify SEO
Migration to a New Domain
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- Point domain to new hosting
- Verify ownership – google webmaster
- Handle the www vs. non-www issue
- Protect folder with .htaccess /
robots.txt
(until you are ready to go live)
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Verify SEO
Final Steps
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- Install Google Analytics
- Submit a sitemap to Google Webmaster
Tools
- Set up the domain redirect
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Migration plan
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- Analyze current
store
- Prepare webhosting
- Customize Magento
- Verify SEO
- Data migration
- Store launch
- Post migration
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Data migration
What to move
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Products and images - attributes, configurable products
- downloadable, bundle, virtual and
group products
- Categories and images
- Customers
- Orders
- and others
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Data migration
Potential problems
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- Manual data transfer is time
consuming
- Password encryption
- Different structure
- Missing fields
- Incomplete transfer
- Duplicate data
- Language and charset
- Currency and taxes
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Data migration
Transfer process
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- Research existing structure
- Link old architecture with Magento
structure
- Prepare migration script(s)
- Organize test transfer
- Verify migrated data
- Run “live” migration once you are
ready
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-34 carts supported, 9000 successful migrations
- Pros and Cons
- Fully automated data migration of products,
categories, customers, orders etc.
- Migration Price Estimator
- Free Demo Migration
- Assisted Migration Service
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Migration plan
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- Analyze current
store
- Prepare webhosting
- Customize Magento
- Verify SEO
- Data migration
- Store launch
- Post migration
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Store launch
Final testing
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- Step off and back in few days
- Verify website functionality (emails,
forms etc.)
- Verify data
- Make sure payment gateway switched to
“live”
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Store launch
Activation schedule
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- Set date and time
- Estimate downtime (if any) and
deadline
- Announce at old website
- Notification to customers
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Store launch
Activation process
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- Update domain TTL to 1 hour
- Backup old data and files to subdomain
- Stop modifications and checkout at old
website
- Migrate data
- Setup redirect / switch NS to new site
- Notification to customers
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Migration plan
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- Analyze current
store
- Prepare webhosting
- Customize Magento
- Verify SEO
- Data migration
- Store launch
- Post migration
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Post migration
Post-migration monitoring
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- Check pages in Google are properly
linked
- Check all files are there
- Check report of 404 pages and fix
issues if any
- Monitor PR
- Monitor traffic
- Monitor ROI
- Talk to customers and get feedbacks
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Results
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Bonus
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Bonus from QuartSoft:
Buy one extension and get another one for free
http://www.magentocommerce.com/magento-
connect/developer/QuartSoft
Bonus from Cart2Cart:
20% off for data migration with Cart2Cart, Store
Manager for Magento
Coupon code: MIGR-L6RT-MAG
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Happy Migration! Happy E-
commerce!
Oleg Cherevatyy
Commercial Director
Cart2Cart product
oleg@shopping-cart-
migration.com
shopping-cart-migration.com
Paul Ryazanov
Director of marketing
QuartSoft Corp.
T. 380 (95) 140-07-16
quartsoft.com