Magento Go Support is Going…Going…Gone
The official Magento Go blog, if you’ve been paying attention, has hosted tumbleweeds for almost a year now…and with good reason: on July 1, 2014, eBay announced that it will be shutting down all Magento Go e-commerce products in February of 2015. While this end-of-life date allows current users the opportunity to survive Christmas before the final coffin nail is slammed home, businesses that rely heavily on their web store would do well to consider migrating to a different platform as soon as possible.
Migrating from one platform to another is never a simple process. A general lack of migration tools makes the process cumbersome and time-consuming, and certainly not one you’d want to rush. Waiting until the holidays have passed allows only a one-month window—give or take some days—to transition fully. Think about that—one month to ensure all your products and their individual meta data survives the migration. One month to work out the bugs. One month to get it all right.
One month to ensure your SEO has been handled properly. One month to ensure your rankings don’t disappear when you flip that switch.
We hear it every day: “I migrated to a new e-commerce platform,” they say in a desperate rush. “I was ranking for everything last week, and now I’m not ranking for anything!”
It happens. Often. And if it happens to Magento Go users in January of 2015, they can forget about support, they can forget about backups.
If you knew your house was going to be foreclosed on in February, you wouldn’t wait until January to start looking for a new home. Danconia Media can help. We’ll be your realtor and your moving company, finding the right virtual neighborhood for your business, taking care that none of your valuables are broken in the transition process. Call 603.529.8175 today and let us show you just how smooth your relocation can be.
