ALL ABOUT WEBSITE MAINTENANCE

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Website Maintenance is continuously updating.

Website Maintenance requires monthly updates through search engine work-spaces. 

This involves submitting each website page and sitemap for search engine indexing while keeping up with each of the search engines own updates. 

Maintaining a website is the act of routinely checking your website for issues that negatively impact its performance and provide a poor user experience. Some of these issues and tasks include: Broken links. Misspellings. Poor readability.​

​The smallest issue with your website can drastically damage your search results which could minimize visibility and traffic. 

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How is a website maintained?

Maintaining a website with updates and content can be quite stressful and requires much attention. Website maintenance services include all activities for keeping a close eye on the website issues and fix them as they are discovered.

The idea is to make sure the website remains functional without any loss in user experience and/or downtime.

Website Maintenance is a complex process.

The tasks for proper website maintenance include:

➡️ To be done weekly

▪️ Check that all of your pages are loading without errors.
▪️ Run a backup and make sure a previous version of your site is stored.
▪️ Make updates to website software and plugins.
▪️ Check that all of your forms are running properly.
▪️ Remove any spam comments from pages and posts.
▪️ Check your pages to see if there are any broken links.
▪️ Search for 404 errors and fix or redirect.
▪️ Write one or more blog posts to keep your community engaged and encourage SEO traffic.

➡️ To be done monthly

▪️ Check the load speed of your website and ensure that nothing is bogging it down.
▪️ Review your security scans and make sure nothing is out of place.
▪️ Analyze website statistics from the previous month.
▪️ Check your blog to see if there are any articles that could be updated.

➡️ To be done quarterly

▪️ Review your website design and structure  – can be it improved?
▪️ Check graphics and images – should anything be updated?
▪️ Review SEO and meta titles and descriptions to ensure they are as effective as possible.
▪️ Test and tweak popups, forms, and calls to action.
▪️ Review your workload for efficiencies to see if anything can be automated.
▪️ Test your website on all devices and browsers to see if it displays correctly.
▪️ Review advertising and marketing campaigns with changes or updates.
▪️ Restore a previous version of the website to check your backup health.

➡️ To be done yearly

▪️ Update any reference to the current year.
▪️ Review each page for content accuracy, grammar, typos, and relevancy.
▪️ Check any active email addresses and see if any are excessive and can be deleted.
▪️ Ensure that your website domain name is renewed.
▪️ Consider whether a website design update is due.
▪️ Review all of your top performing pages and see if they can be updated with new content .

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Is website maintenance necessary?

Regularly updating and maintaining your site is crucial to ensuring that your site is running at full capacity. Just like cars, websites require maintenance to operate properly.

Properly maintaining your site helps to ensure website security, increase the number of new visitors, boost returning traffic, and more. 

​It seems very complex but when in perspective, making the world wide web continuously update our websites to keep up with the search algorithm updates only ensures that quality content will be searchable on the internet.

Properly maintaining a website is vital to its success

We will make sure your website is up to date and current with everything involving the search engines and their functions. Our goal is to reach the top.