Social Media Strategy & Engagement Marketing by Karl Long

so far I have managed to migrate my entire experiencecurve blog over to wordpress, that includes all the entries, categories, comments and archives. I’ve even got a redirection script built into every individual archive so all permalinks still work as expected, and send the appropriate 301 code to any search engines to let them know its a permanent move.

The bulk of the migration was taken care of using the tutorial here: movabletype migration and that took less than 20 minutes.

The other piece of work I did was to use Alexe’s MT redirection tool/tutorial. This is essentially a movableType template that you paste in MT to replace your individual archive template, sounds scary but it worked great. For example if you go to http://experiencecurve.com/competition/archives/000088.html it that archive redirects you to http://blog.experiencecurve.com/archives/2004/10/01/moving-to-wordpress-this-weekend/

And through all of this I have not had to touch any php at all, I’ve got to say I’m super impressed with how well the wordpress stuff works.

The old experience curve does still exit at http://experiencecurve.com/competition and will have to be for a while I think as the search engines start to grok the changes.

I have forwarded all the category archives using .htaccess, that way if someone finds reference to http://experiencecurve.com/archives/cat_competitiveadvantage.html on a search engine they will seamlessly be directed to http://blog.experiencecurve.com/catagories/competitiveadvantage/

My one problem right now is redirecting references that link to the blog.experiencecurve.com url, basically some search engines have indexed the archives from that URL and I am having a hard time figuring out how to redirect files that are being reffered to by an aliased domain. i.e. blog.experiencecurve.com used to point to experiencecurve.com/competition is now actually pointing at experiencecurve.com/experiencecurve and old references the domain alias seem to ignore .htaccess redirects. If this makes sense to you please ping me with any ideas, thanks.