Articles by Rob McGuire

Rob has written 11 awesome articles for us at the Blog Movers

Rob McGuire

Monitoring Your Website With Google Analytics

July 9, 2012

I’ve found that most people don’t really give much thought to how their website analytics are set up.  And that’s a shame, because an incredible amount of information about your website can be harvested if Google Analytics is installed and configured properly. When I move blogs to WordPress, I always insert your analytics script back [...]

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WordPress Security

July 6, 2012

There are many different options you can take when installing a WordPress site, but when we move blogs to WordPress we utilize several measures to ensure that your new website has rock-solid security and is nearly impervious to hackers. We would like to say that our WordPress installs are 100% safe from hackers, but unfortunately, [...]

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Migrating Content From Tumblr To WordPress

December 27, 2011

Migrating content from Tumblr to WordPress is a lot easier since the importing plugin was developed, but many users are still having a hard time switching over.  Most of the problems arise when moving from a custom Tumblr domain to WordPress. The solution to this problem isn’t readily apparent, but is quite simple. If you [...]

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HubSpot Migrations: 5 Things To Remember

December 21, 2011

When you’re getting ready to migrate from HubSpot to WordPress you should have a checklist of steps that need to be done before going live with your new site.  You can’t go wrong with the following items. WordPress install You will need to acquire new hosting for your new WordPress site and you’ll need to [...]

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Moving From A Custom CMS To WordPress

December 18, 2011

Not every blog runs on mainstream software.  There are many blogs built on customized content management systems.  These types of blogs require a special touch when performing WordPress migrations. Because these blogs are built on a custom CMS, there are no WordPress plugins available to import the content into a WordPress readable format.  And it’s [...]

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Problems Migrating From Blogger To WordPress

December 18, 2011

Moving from Blogger to WordPress is probably the most common type of blog migration.  These two types of blogging software are the most popular, which explains the large amount of migrations from Blogger over to WordPress. Fortunately, Blogger and WordPress make these types of moves rather simple.  Blogger lets you easily export all your blog [...]

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Reasons To Move From Active Rain To WordPress

December 17, 2011

There can be quite a few reasons why someone would want to move their Active Rain blog to WordPress, but the most common reasons I’ve heard tend to fall in the following categories.  Branding.  It can be hard to brand yourself or your business if you are using somebody else’s software.  If you want to [...]

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Recreating Your HubSpot Theme On WordPress

December 16, 2011

When moving from HubSpot to WordPress you will obviously need a website to go along with all your migrated content.  Most people are happy with what their website looked like while on HubSpot, so one of the steps in a blog migration is to recreate that design on WordPress. Recreating an existing design is generally [...]

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Moving Images From HubSpot To WordPress

December 15, 2011

Another important consideration after moving from HubSpot to WordPress is making sure that all the images used in your posts and pages reside on your new WordPress site and not on the HubSpot site. Images can be deceiving When moving blogs to WordPress, you will most likely reconstruct the new site on a test server [...]

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Using Redirects After Moving From HubSpot To WordPress

December 14, 2011

One of the worst things you can do when moving a blog to WordPress is not implementing any URL redirects.  Without any redirects in place, you lose several key benefits and the user experience is diminished. After moving your blog, redirects are needed for the following reasons: SEO.  Any backlink pointing to one of your [...]

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