GET TO KNOW THE REASON, PROCESS, AND COST FOR MAGENTO 2 MIGRATION
What if, one fine morning you come to know Magento is ending
support for Magento 1 finally in a week or two? Will that not be shocking for you?
Will that not interrupt your business? Will you regret for not having migrated
your store yet to Magento 2?
By June 2020, Magento 2 was supposed to have the entire
migration process completed, but Magento had to stop it for some resistance
from within the industry. Now, Magento announced they would give 18-month
notice prior to revoking the Magento 1
support.
That means you have time in your hand to migrate your Magento
store to Magento 2.
Why
migrate to Magento 2?
If this question arises in you, it’s quite natural.
Apparently, you have no issue as such with Magento 1 to migrate to Magento 2. Why
then will you do so?
For “improvements,” to be precise!
Magento 2 unpacks brand-new architecture, coding structure,
database design, layout, modules, and a set of fresh features. With their
implementation and upgrade of your store to the new Magento platform, Magento 2
intends to future-proof the market needs.
Let’s take a quick look into those improvements in Magento 2
for you to know why you should take up Magento 2 migration as the top priority.
In comparison to Magento 1, Magento 2 offers faster
performance, improved security, faster checkout speed, and the ability to
handle a greater number of orders, among many others. Due to speedier checkout process,
that number of cart abandonment will be lower is for sure.
Cut to the cost
for Magento 2 upgrade service and the required timeline.
We must talk over them because these are the two basic things
you may be more curious about to know. However, planning for migration should
be ever more important than only talking over why stores should move to Magento
2.
How
to plan for migration to Magento 2?
Magento 2 migration if done without proper planning and
roadmap will cost your online business journey severely. That’s why you need proper
actions and planning to beat off some critical challenges before you initiate
Magento 2 migration.
- Data migration
- 301 redirects and 404 errors
- Duplicate content issue
- Theme selection
- Selection of Magento migration service provider
Data
Migration:
Data migration covers the migration of vital website
elements, such as orders, product data like attributes, description, specifications,
meta titles, tags, sales data, customer information like wishlist, profile
details, etc. Do you want all this data elements migrated to your new Magento 2
website? Make a list of them well before you initiate Magento 2 migration project.
Ask yourself some relevant questions before you initiate:
? Do I need to migrate entire data or carry forward
some of them only?
? Am I okay with my current website appearance and don’t
need changes for my new Magento 2 website?
? Are all extensions and modules on my current website necessary
for my business?
To
your first question, I must say that it’s a good opportunity for you to identify
necessary and unnecessary website elements and add and remove them accordingly.
Go to your admin panel for this and look for the essential extensions and
modules for migration to Magento 2.
You may also opt for a consultation with Magento certified
developers who can guide you and provide you with Magento extension development
services.
301
Redirects & 404 Errors:
Any loss of your hard-earned landing page authorities will be
painful. Perhaps, you will not like to lose them, will you?
If no, then you have to move the same old URLs for products,
categories, and CMS pages to your new Magento 2 site. In case of any worst
scenario, when you have got the changed URLs, you will require a guided 301-redirection
service to maintain SEO ranking intact and avoid losing the organic traffic.
In the course of this migration, 404 errors might also happen. To
let this not happen to your project, keep watching your webmaster tool to find
out them and implement 301-redirection.
Duplicate
Content Issue:
When canonical URLs are not properly set up, duplicate
content issues may happen. It will be difficult for you to control multiple
products, categories or dynamic URLs, which is why you got to properly
implement canonical URLs. You may opt for expert guidance to set up all basic
SEO perspectives for Magento 2 migration.
Theme
selection:
Do you want the same appearance to reflect in your new
Magento 2 website? If yes, select the same theme from Magento marketplace and
get them customized to suit the new Magento 2 environment. Copying the theme
folders from Magento 1 and migrating that to Magento 2 environment won’t work.
You will require the professional Magento theme customization service.
Magento
Migration Service Provider Selection:
The number of Magento development providers that can provide
Magento 2 migration service is less in number than the number of Magento 1
websites waiting for Magento 2 migration. Delaying any further for this migration
service will take up your migration project. And, you know that will subsequently
impact negatively on your online business.
What
does the Magento 2 migration service cost?
This is a crucial question. I may say that it depends on the
size and customization needs for a project. The website that requires the development of a few new extensions will obviously cost higher than that
requires none. That cost will include services of developers as well as those
of designers.
Based on the technical requirements of a store, the Magento 2
migration cost for a project is decided. If you need further help in
calculating your budget and timeline, you may consult our Magento 2 certified
developers for FREE here!
Wrap-Up:
Citytech has a team of Magento certified developers, which
can help you guide, plan, analyze, and get started with cost-effective
Magento migration services. Take a look into the list of Magento websites
development achievements by
Citytech. So, why delay anymore to initiate your project? Delaying any further
will make you run at the last minute, will you?
Get a FREE consultation to know your Magento 1 to Magento 2 migration cost and timeline.
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