Joshua Gadbois

Integrated Small Business Solutions

The Shop
Migration: Marketplace to WooCommerce

The Problem

Marketplace platforms like Etsy and eBay take 10-20% of every sale
and own the customer relationship. You can’t email your customers. You
can’t control your branding. You can’t build equity in your own domain.
And when the platform changes its algorithm or fee structure, you have
no recourse.

What This Is

A full migration from marketplace platforms to a self-hosted
WooCommerce store on high-performance VPS infrastructure. You keep 100%
of your revenue and own the customer relationship.

How It Works

  • Direct Content Extraction — Custom migration engine
    pulls existing listings, images, and reviews directly from Etsy or eBay.
    No manual copying.
  • AI-Driven SEO Transformation — AI regenerates
    titles, meta-descriptions, and product copy based on current high-intent
    search trends. Your content doesn’t just move — it improves.
  • Human-in-the-Loop V&V — Structured verification
    and validation points where you review the AI’s work on your most
    important products. The soul of the brand stays intact.
  • Infrastructure — High-performance VPS, not shared
    hosting. SSL, caching, backups, security hardening all included.

Architectural Approach

The migration is a pipeline: extract (API-based content pull from
source platform), transform (AI-powered SEO optimization with human
review gates), load (WooCommerce import with full metadata
preservation). Post-migration, I set up 301 redirects from old
marketplace URLs, configure Google Search Console for the new domain,
and monitor traffic transition over the first 30 days.