Website Maintenance Montreal
Hire an expert to maintain your website.
One of the biggest mistakes businesses make is abandoning their website.
WHAT IS WEBSITE MAINTENANCE?
Website maintenance is crucial for ensuring that your site runs smoothly, remains secure, and stays up-to-date.
Here’s a 6-step process for effective website maintenance.
Step 1.
Regular Backups:
- Schedule regular backups of your website’s files and databases. This ensures that you can quickly restore your site in case of data loss, hacking, or other emergencies.
- Use reliable backup tools and store backup copies in multiple locations, including offsite or cloud storage.
Step 2:
Software Updates:
- Keep your content management system (CMS), plugins, themes, and any other software up to date. Regularly check for updates and apply them promptly to benefit from new features, performance improvements, and security patches.
- Ensure compatibility between different software components to avoid conflicts.
Step 3.
Security Checks:
- Perform regular security audits to identify vulnerabilities. This includes checking for outdated software, weak passwords, and any suspicious activity in your website logs.
- Install a reputable security plugin or software to help monitor and protect your site against common security threats.
Step 4.
Broken Links and Website Speed:
- Regularly check for broken links on your website. Broken links can negatively impact user experience and SEO.
- Monitor website speed and optimize where necessary. Compress images, leverage browser caching, and use Content Delivery Networks (CDNs) to improve loading times.
Step 5.
Content Review and Updates:
- Review and update your website content regularly to ensure that information is accurate and up to date.
- Check for outdated or irrelevant pages, update images, and ensure that contact information and calls-to-action are current.
Step 6.
User Experience (UX) Testing:
- Conduct regular UX testing to ensure that your website is user-friendly. Test on different devices and browsers to catch any issues that might affect the user experience.
- Pay attention to user feedback, both direct and through analytics, to understand how visitors interact with your site and make improvements accordingly.
Maintenance pricing plans
Most business websites will need maintenance on a monthly basis in order to keep their content up-to-date. For small content management, you probably can do yourself. However, more technical web development management is best left to a web designer. This is why I provide monthly maintenance plans for my clients.
STARTER
$375
per month
We will create a custom maintenance strategy based on your $375/month budget.
Fee is monthly
3 Month Minimum
Up to 5 Hours of updates
On-page text and image content updates
Monthly full site and database backup
WordPress version updates
WordPress theme & plugin updates
Research of your competitors
And Much More!
BUSINESS
$750
per month
We will create a custom maintenance strategy based on your $750/month budget.
Fee is monthly
3 Month Minimum
Up to 10 Hours of updates
On-page text and image content updates
Monthly full site and database backup
WordPress version updates
WordPress theme & plugin updates
Research of your competitors
And Much More!
PREMIUM
$1,500
per month
We will create a custom maintenance strategy based on your $1500/month budget.
Fee is monthly
3 Month Minimum
Up to 20 Hours of updates
On-page text and image content updates
Monthly full site and database backup
WordPress version updates
WordPress theme & plugin updates
Research of your competitors
And Much More!
What clients are saying…
“Fabio has designed and is currently maintaining my website. I have found his work to be well done and he also advised me on how to improve the marketing of my website. Highly recommended!!!”
Patricia D.
Montreal Antique Show
Frequently Asked Questions
HOW MUCH DOES WEBSITE MAINTENANCE COST?
Successful businesses require frequent website updates to keep their content fresh and up to date. I want to make the website maintenance process as affordable as possible for all my clients. This is why I provide maintenance plans depending on the amount of website maintenance you believe is required for your business. The cost of website maintenance plans start as low as $750 per month. If you require a one-time job, my hourly rate for maintenance is $75/hr.
WHAT IS A WEBSITE MAINTENANCE PLAN ?
A website maintenance plan is an on-going, monthly update of the content of your website. These updates ensure freshness of your website information, which helps ranking on Google results pages.
This will allow business owners to focus on their business and not constantly updating their own website which can be extremely time consuming. Updates to crucial plugins or other website features will also keep your website from vulnerabilities from hackers and people trying to spam your website.
WHAT IS INCLUDED IN A WEBSITE MAINTENANCE PLAN?
The website maintenance services I offer include various services you need to keep your website updated, user-friendly, and secure. Some common examples of website maintenance services include:
The first thing I will do is check the functionality of your website. I will make sure your pages are functioning well and not showing any errors. I will go through each page of your website to ensure that everything is running smoothly.
The next step, I will update your current version of WordPress, update your theme and plugins.
I will check your website contact forms to ensure they work. It would be terrible if your customers are trying to send you a message of your form and it bounces.
Once, I complete the technical check-up of your website, I will then add and new text or image content where required on your website.
Lastly, I will then make a backup of your website files, in the event you will have to restore your website to the current state. I will always have the previous version of your website on file if I need to restore it.
WHY DO BUSINESSES NEED WEBSITE MAINTENANCE?
Keeping a website up to date is extremely important to the smooth running of any online business. Regular updates to your website is like bringing your car in for an oil change and maintenance check-up. You want to make sure all is running well. This ensures proper website security for your website files and plugins. Adding new content will also tell Google that your website keeps adding new information. Google likes websites that continuously provide value with fresh new content. This will help boost your Google rank, increasing visitors to your website.
Whether your business is big or small, maintaining your website’s content is key to your online success. Website maintenance not only about updating a few words here and there, it also ensures that you will maintain your search rankings as Google values fresh new content on websites because it is a signal of bring value to the user.
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Don’t let your digital marketing potential slip away just because you’re missing experience and creativity! Reach out to us today, and let’s collaborate to transform your marketing strategy into tangible, measurable results that you’ll be thrilled with.