Nov 14, 2022 9:13 AM - edited Nov 23, 2022 11:55 AM
Hey HubSpot Community,
My name is Patrick Eng and I’m a member of the Onboarding Scale Team at HubSpot. Throughout this week, we’ll be running an Ask Me Anything (AMA) that will answer all of your website migration questions. Have you ever wanted to speak to experts on HubSpot’s Migration’s team? Well, now's your chance!
Need some suggestions for what to ask? Here are some example questions:
We have team members from all around HubSpot spending this week answering your questions:
A.J. LaPorte (@AJLaPorte) - Senior CMS Developer Advocate
Allison Nichols (@anichols) - Principal Onboarding Specialist
Patrick Eng (@PatrickEng) - Senior Customer Onboarding Specialist
Ernestina Spinu (@eSpinu) - Senior Customer Support Specialist
Kaitlyn Nadeau - Principal Replatforming Specialist
Collin Newberg - Principal Replatforming Specialist
Eric Salvi - Migrations Team Lead
Feel free to drop in your questions below. We’ll start answering questions on November 14th and until 3 PM EST on November 18th.
We're looking forward to hearing from you soon!
Nov 20, 2022 5:17 PM - edited Nov 20, 2022 5:47 PM
I know I'm a bit late to the migration task. I have a small bit of PHP code that works to create a contact as needed. I've tried to follow the guidance in the migration article, but I am unable to get past an error. I'm pretty sure that I've created the private app successfully. Here's the code that I have now:
Nov 23, 2022 11:54 AM
Hi @EDash ,
Sorry for the late response but since this AMA is more website migration-related and not API data migration, I would highly recommend joining our HubSpot Developer Slack Community and crowdsourcing an answer from that community.
Nov 18, 2022 1:50 PM - edited Nov 19, 2022 1:53 AM
Hi Isabel!
Thanks for your questions! Not too late 🙂
Please see answers to each of your questions below.
1) How technically difficult would it be to migrate our pages, built with ACF, to Hubspot? Since we're not working with a website builder, is migration technically possible or would we need to create it from scratch?
Answer
TL;DR: As long as we have access to your site (for example at https://www.wetravel.com/ or even a staging site!) and can crawl your site , we can see if it is a fit for one of our migration services.
About the process and our services
Process
Services
I’ll link to some additional information about the services we offer, but wanted to give an overview here. The services below are dependent on a website audit.
Full Migration (info here)
Migrate to a Theme (see image attached at the bottom)
2) Is there a way to quickly migrate posts that were created directly on the WordPress CMS without running into formatting issues like broken images?
Answer
A couple more notes about the WordPress connect and Smart copy tools:
3) How does migration impact SEO? Is taking this portion of our sitemap out of the main domain to lodge it in Hubspot going to affect our DA or overall positioning?
Answer
With a migration to any new platform you can expect a temporary dip in SEO, as Google recrawls and re-indexes your site. This usually evens out after a few weeks.
You can mitigate some of this effect by:
Here is a checklist on how to successfully migrate a site without harming SEO.
If this is a long-term priority for your team, we would also recommend working with an SEO specialist.
To answer your question about taking part of your site and hosting it on HubSpot:
Please let us know if we can clarify anything here or you have additional questions!
Migrate to a Theme service overview
Dec 8, 2022 12:22 PM
Thank you so much for your reply, Dwigt!
Is there any way we can schedule a meeting with someone to address some additional questions my manager and I have? We're interested in the service, we just need to clarify some additional details. Please, feel free to contact my email (isabel.espinoza@wetravel.com) if you think we can communicate better there. 🙂
Thanks again!
Best,
Isabel.
Dec 8, 2022 1:28 PM
Hi Isabel,
Sounds good! I'll reach out to you directly to continue the conversation.
Looking forward to it!
Nov 17, 2022 1:31 PM
Hey Patrick!
This is Isabel Espinoza, Content Specialist for WeTravel. We're currently looking into migrating a part of our website to Hubspot. The motivation for us to do this is to gain more control over page structure and page creation for our Academy. We have several plans and needs that require a quicker turnaround that our webmaster and dev team can provide. Nevertheless, I have a few questions:
1) How technically difficult would it be to migrate our pages, built with ACF, to Hubspot? Since we're not working with a website builder, is migration technically possible or would we need to create it from scratch?
2) Is there a way to quickly migrate posts that were created directly on the WordPress CMS without running into formatting issues like broken images?
3) How does migration impact SEO? Is taking this portion of our sitemap out of the main domain to lodge it in Hubspot going to affect our DA or overall positioning?
Thank you very much for your help!
Looking forward to hearing from you and I hope I'm not too late to ask!
Best,
Isabel
(isabel.espinoza@wetravel.com)