I found a lot of problems to fix now that Webmetrisguru.com has moved off of Know More Media - and I’m thinking, this is something we need help with, and I’m reaching out to a few people involved to see if they can help.
Here’s the problems I’ve noticed since the blog has been up today:
1. Categories diden’t map properly
Category = web analyticsoriginal blog = www.webmetricsguru.com/web_analytics/
new blog = www.webmetricsguru.com/?cat=153due to that disparity - all the indexed category listings are now returning 404 errors (but there’s not even a custom 404 page yet).
I also noticed a lot of duplicated categories - like one listing (top level) than the same listing 10 times again, in the category editor - not sure why.
It looks like a few missing tables and redirects are needed in order to fix this problem. The problem might be that the mappings might not exist in the exported data we got. But even if it does exist, would we have to do the import all over again? I don’t know - that’s why we need help.
2. The Urls themselves didn’t map to exactly what Google had in it’s index
original url = http://www.webmetricsguru.com/2008/08/moving_webmetricsgurucom.html
new url = http://www.webmetricsguru.com/?p=10
Again, it’s essentially a redirect issue or a url re-write in the database, itself. This is the kind of problem that can be a piece of cake if you know exactly what your doing, or very, very hard and time consuming, if you don’t.
My gut says - hire someone to fix this that knows the problem and how to solve it quickly.
The last problem is the simplest to solve, by comparison. The RSS feed url of the orginial site needs to be perserved on the new one - perhaps the Feedburner plugin will accomplish that - don’t know:
3. WordPress, by default, doesn’t create an RSS feed with the structure of http://www.webmetricsguru.com/index.xml but that’s what we needed to keep in place in order to keep the RSS feed intact that was on WMG orginally and move it over to my account (http://feeds.feedburner.com/webmetricsguru/ZGtF).
It’s hard to have anticipated these problems, even though there’s several articles online about people who have run into this - it’s hard to really digest the difficulties of moving from one platform to another - till you actually have to do it.
So I ask you all, who read this, to be patient with us - we’re clearly going to solve this, but it will take a little time.
