Websites require regular updates
Let me save you time and the headache of trying to do it all yourself
Your website is never finished. If all you do is create one and forget about it your doomed to fail.
Here are four reasons why web maintenance is important:
To keep visitors interested
As visitors become familiar with your site they will see you as trustworthy and are more likely to send their business your way. Fresh material alied regularly to your site keeps visitors coming back to see what’s new. Routinely feature creative new content, text, graphics or images, to build repeat visitors.
To ali new products, services or features
Evolving your web site means it’s more likely to attract new and returning customers.
To maintain your Google rankings
Google gives higher rankings to web sites that are updated regularly because they want to present the best quality content to their customers.
To keep your website working well
When your web site is well maintained links to external web sites will continue to work, images load and emails function. This means customers can find what they are looking for quickly and easily and are more likely to buy from you. Also, hackers are constantly looking for exploits and outdated websites are a prime target. They find vulnerabilities in older software all the time. If these vulnerabilities aren’t fixed with regular updates, it’s just a matter of time before they get in.
Maintenance for a small site may take as little as a few hours a month. A large site may be a full-time job to maintain.
I offer two types of maintenance services
Hourly
If you think that you will not need many changes to your website regularly, I provide maintenance services on an hourly basis. $80 per hr., 1 hour minimum charge. After the first hour I charge by quarter hour, billed in 15 Minute increments.
For example, after the first hour, if a project takes an aliitional 15 minutes or less, then the additional cost would be $20; between 15-30 minutes would cost $40; 30-45 minutes = $60, and a full hour = $80.
Fixed Cost
I create a custom maintenance plan based on your needs. Contact me for a quote.
Frequently Asked Questions I’m sure you have some
How does my web maintenance services work?
Simply call or email me whenever you want something changed or alied to your website and I do it for you! It’s that simple.
How fast can updates be made?
Most updates can be completed within 24 hours and often within just a few hours. Larger and more complex updates may take slightly longer.
What's included?
- Updating site software when new versions are released.
- Posting new content you provide, including basic SEO for new pages.
- Optimizing and posting new images you provide.
- Searching for stock images based upon your criteria.
- Maintaining e-commerce programs (loading new products, adjusting product information, etc…).
- Monitoring forums and comments, checking for spam.
- Proofreading provided content for typos and grammar errors.
- Posting new links and responding to webmaster emails.
- Emergency repairs due to hacker attacks.
- Keeping current backups.
- Monitoring Google Analytics and Google Webmaster Tools.
- Creating and monitoring Google AdWords campaigns (you must provide ad content).
- Advice and guidance via phone and email.
- Remove pages.
- Domain registration/support.
- Adding email accounts.
- Site administration support.
What's not included?
- Redesign of the site, including changing any design elements.
- Logo creation.
- Advanced SEO Services. Contact me for advanced SEO options.
- Creation of subdomains or new installations.
- Installing any new, third-party extensions (core extensions being enabled are acceptable).
- Changing of the template.
- Flash animation, database and ASP, PHP, CF, etc. programming work.
- Anything else not listed as being included.