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Dropped $2,000 on a subdomain migration tool last month... worst decision ever
I partnered with this agency to move 500 blog posts to a new subdomain for a client. They sold me on this $2,000 tool that was supposed to handle redirects automatically. Turns out it missed 80 percent of the redirects and we lost half the traffic for three weeks. Has anyone else had a tool screw up a partnership project this bad?
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sagep1917d ago
Wait, are we really blaming the user for trusting a tool that was literally sold as doing the job automatically? I mean yeah manual audits are great and all, but if you pay two grand for something that claims to handle redirects, you'd think it would catch more than 20 percent of them. That's not skipping a step, that's the tool straight up lying about what it can do. The real issue here is the tool overpromising and the agency pushing it without testing it first on a small sample set.
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$2,000 and they missed 80% of redirects? That's not a bad tool, that's you skipping the manual audit before pulling the trigger.
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williamhill26d ago
Yeah the "skipping the manual audit" part hit me hard. I used to be all in on tools doing the heavy lifting but this actually changed my mind, you really gotta double check everything yourself before pulling the trigger.
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