Lethbridge, AB Website Maintenance Services

What is Involved in Maintaining Lethbridge, AB Websites

Web maintenance is a reactive support service that connects you with the right web developer to fix nearly any website issue. These are some examples of website issues that Lethbridge website support firms might fix:

• Updating your website platform.
• Keeping apps and plugins updated for better security and functionality.
• Adding new web pages as you release new information.
• Writing new blog content to help you stay fresh.
• Rearranging the navigation menu of your Lethbridge website.
• Improve your page speed to pass Google Core Web Vitals.
• Backing up your website's files and databases.
• Changing the look and feel of your website.
• Troubleshooting Google Search Console coverage issues.
• Enhancing technical SEO with structured data, open graph tags, etc.
• Providing solutions to other website problems.

The previously mentioned services are just a glimpse of what we view as possible Lethbridge web maintenance services. Basically, Lethbridge website maintenance is anything a web developer or internet marketer does to change your website.

Reactive Lethbridge Website Support

Most Lethbridge website owners wouldn't want a web developer messing around with their site without their permission. That's why we consider web support a reactive service. You can count on our agency to keep your Lethbridge website running smoothly. However, we can offer some proactive Lethbridge web maintenance services.

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Proactive Lethbridge Website Support

For website owners in Lethbridge interested in a proactive management service for some of their website upkeep requirements, we are happy to accommodate! As part of our proactive website management service, our team can take care of platform upgrades, app / extension updates, website backups, performance monitoring, and broken link monitoring.

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In addition to supporting Lethbridge-area websites, our website maintenance agency also offers Calgary, Edmonton, Red Deer, Medicine Hat, and Grande Prairie small businesses and large corporations help with their websites.

Who Needs Website Support in Lethbridge, AB

Every Lethbridge website will need some web maintenance at some point. It's just that the internet changes all the time. However, we don't charge a lot for Lethbridge web maintenance, so you'll be able to afford it! There are a few reasons why a website in Lethbridge might need maintenance:

• When a hosting provider upgrades their servers, they may remove older versions of PHP that your Lethbridge website was originally developed to support. When this happens, you need to refactor your application or upgrade to a newer framework that supports the newer PHP version. You can't expect custom web functionality programmed in the past to work forever without any improvements.
• In order to focus on maintaining the newer version of an ecommerce platform or content management system, they eventually have to deprecate the previous releases. Magento 1.x store owners recently had to migrate to Magento 2.x or an alternative ecommerce platform because Magento 1.x had reached "End of Life" status and wouldn't be maintained or updated. As a result, Magento 1.x ecommerce businesses in Lethbridge were looking for ecommerce developers to help migrate their websites.
• Whenever a website owner falls victim to malware or some other form of malicious activity, the website needs to be cleaned of malware and reviewed for security exploits. This is time-consuming, and often happens when the website owner isn't paying attention to the first two website maintenance examples.
• You need to refresh your Lethbridge website content when it's outdated or doesn't explain your organization, products, or services well enough for future visitors. This type of web support is critical to ensuring your Lethbridge website is benefiting you.

There are many reasons why a website might need maintenance, other than just to update something. Plan your budget and schedules for website support and maintenance based on your Lethbridge business's potential future needs.

How We Perform Lethbridge, AB Website Support

Our professional web maintenance team puts in a lot of effort to understand your needs, schedule your work on time, and follow up with your Lethbridge business after the work is done.

Most Lethbridge website maintenance services start with an email from the website owner. Your email gets routed to our ticket system and automatically gets assigned to your project manager. We can then work on the ticket without delay, which leads to faster turnaround and easier internal communication.

The process for Lethbridge web support services that come from phone or chat is similar. The support request is entered into our ticket system by the person in the conversation with you, which allows the work order to be routed to the most appropriate web developer on our team.

Example Website Support Service List for Lethbridge, AB Businesses

We're often asked for examples of Lethbridge web maintenance requests after a website launches. We've performed these Lethbridge web maintenance services in the past, and would be happy to do it for you too!

Simple Lethbridge Website Updates

Changes to your Lethbridge website could be as simple as updating a paragraph, swapping images, or adding a new page. This is just normal, routine website maintenance to keep content fresh for both search engines and visitors.

Lethbridge Page Speed Improvements

If your Lethbridge website isn't running as fast as it once was, we can review your website for hosting issues, caching issues, unoptimized images, console errors, broken links, poor queries, and much more. It'll help improve page load times, which will make users and search engines happy.

Platform Updates / Security Fixes

It's important to keep your Lethbridge website updated if it runs on a CMS like WordPress. Updates help improve security and functionality - and they're usually quick, so it might be a simple task.

Extension / Plugin Updates

It's important to update your Lethbridge website's plugins and extensions to reflect the latest changes by the developers. This is similar to the idea of updating the CMS platform since it helps patch security and functionality issues.

Google Search Console Issues

Did Google Search Console tell you about a coverage problem? If so, we'll look at the coverage issues, fix them, and update you on the status. Make Google happy, and you'll rank higher throughout Lethbridge and beyond!

Implement Structured Data

Have you ever noticed information like reviews or product prices in the listing of a Google organic search result? This is brought to you by structured data, which is a standardized way of describing the content on the web page, whether it be of a local business in Lethbridge, and ecommerce product or some other common data type.

Implement Open Graph on Your Website

When people share links of your Lethbridge business on social media, your website will look better if you add Open Graph Tags. These tags help define an image, title, and description for your each page on your website.

Add Google Tag Manager

Interested in using Google Tag Manager for managing custom scripts? No problem at all! We'll happily install Google Tag Manager on your Lethbridge website and teach you how to use it.

Implement Conversion Tracking

It's important to setup conversion tracking for your Lethbridge website if you want to understand the benefits of online advertising. It'll help you understand where your conversions come from, like direct traffic, referral links, organic search, or paid ads.

Image Compression (Optimization)

Is your Lethbridge website slow because of large images? That won't be a problem! We can run all your images through our image compression tools and even setup recurring image compression for newly added images in the future!

Setup Live Chat

Would you like to try live chat? Our experts can help you pick the right live chat system, install the tracking code, and customize the design to match your Lethbridge business branding!

Review Error Logs for Issues

Are your error_log files big? To stop recurring error messages, we can diagnose the problem and update programming code.

Reduce Spam with reCaptcha

If spambots are attacking your Lethbridge website, we can setup a checkbox or invisible reCaptcha to help minimize unwanted submissions on your forms.

Implement a Caching Plugin

Looking to install a caching plugin on your Lethbridge website, but not sure how to configure it? We can help you figure out which caching plugins to install and configure on your website!

Send Website Emails Over SMTP

If you want to improve email deliverability, we can set up your contact form and website platform to send emails via SMTP instead of PHP mail.

Restrict IP Addresses

Is your Lethbridge website being bombarded with fake orders, contact submissions or live chats from a specific network? If you want to protect your website from malicious traffic, we can help by implementing IP restrictions.

Backup Your Website Files

Would you like a backup of your Lethbridge website? Let us help you create one-time or scheduled backups that you can store locally or offsite.

Create a Testing Website

When you're doing a major upgrade or extension installation, you should set up a development or staging site first. If you'd like help creating and managing that development / staging site, just let us know!

Setup A/B Testing

Are you a fan of making Lethbridge web design changes based on statistical data? We can help you run A/B testing to help you decide which design or content layouts are best.

Add 301 Redirects

Have you launched a new website or removed pages? You should create 301 redirects for your Lethbridge website. We've seen businesses in and around Lethbridge lose huge amounts of organic traffic due to widespread broken pages. We can help you set up 301 redirects in .htaccess files, nginx templates, and CMS platforms.

Train You on Your Website

Want to learn how to make simple edits to your Lethbridge website? We'll be happy to help if your Lethbridge site was built on a platform we work with, such as WordPress or Shopify.

The Platforms We Maintain for Lethbridge, AB Websites

For Lethbridge businesses, we have a team of web designers and web developers who have experience with multiple platforms. Nevertheless, mastering a handful of platforms is better than trying to be an expert on everything. Because of that, we tend to service only these platforms for Lethbridge websites:

• Lethbridge WordPress Web Support
• Lethbridge WooCommerce Website Support
• Lethbridge Shopify Web Maintenance

We've managed Joomla and Magento platforms for Lethbridge businesses in the past. However, we chose not to use those platforms so our website maintenance experts could focus on training and support within the more popular platforms.

Questions to Ask Lethbridge, AB Web Support Companies

If you're thinking about signing up for any Lethbridge web maintenance package, make sure you ask the company how their services work. By doing this, you'll be able to better understand your future experience with their expert Alberta website maintenance services before you submit payment or provide website access. You can ask these simple questions:

• Can you tell me how you handle website security? Do you run website security scans for clients?
• When can I expect an average Lethbridge web support request to be completed?
• Do you outsource your Lethbridge website support services?
• What are your Lethbridge web maintenance costs?
• Are there minimum deductions or minimum billable expenses for Lethbridge website updates?
• Can you tell me what your normal business hours are?
• When there are new updates on my platform, will you let me know?

If you ask these questions to a Lethbridge website services firm, you'll gain a better understanding of the future relationship, the security of your website, and the turnaround time for important maintenance requests.

Lethbridge, AB Web Support Plans and Tips

Larger companies in and around Lethbridge often ask us for a website support plan. Whether it's your website, hosting, or domain name, we'll make sure your Lethbridge business has a web maintenance plan to ensure optimum performance.

Read through this list of annual Lethbridge web maintenance tasks to consider:

• Message your web hosting firm to see if they have upgraded servers you can switch your website to for faster page speeds.
• Check if your website platform is releasing a major upgrade in the near future which will require a major overhaul of your website.
• Attempt to restore a website backup to ensure the data being stored is sufficient for full recovery. Also make sure you are storing backups in a remote location away from Lethbridge.
• Look at competitor websites (even those outside of Lethbridge) to see if you are missing out on new functionality for your own customers.
• Take a look at your website's security to make sure nothing's been compromised.
• Make sure structured data, open graph, and social links are working.
• Remove any unnecessary 3rd party tracking, live chat, or heat map scripts that may have been installed in the past.
• Take down any unnecessary development or staging sites.

Read through this list of semi-annual Lethbridge website maintenance tasks to review:

• Check that your domain name doesn't expire soon and that you have access to it. You'll appreciate this when it's time to renew your domain.
• Ensure you have access to your hosting account and that it isn't expiring soon.
• Make sure you can access your DNS in case anything needs to be changed.
• Find out if your SSL certificate will expire soon.
• Make sure you have remote backups outside Lethbridge and that your website backup schedule is working.
• If you have an automated image optimization service, verify it is working properly.
• Make sure the website doesn't throw any console errors.

Here are a list of monthly Lethbridge web support tasks to review:

• Check for broken links on your website, which negatively impact user experience and SEO.
• Check your website for performance issues after recent updates or changes.
• See if there are any coverage issues in Google Search Console.
• Update some of your service pages or blog articles to keep your website fresh.
• Take a look at your website platform and extensions for any available updates.

The Cost of Website Support Service in Lethbridge, AB

The starting price for our Lethbridge website maintenance services is $119.50/hour, but we offer discounts for pre-purchased blocks of time that bring the rate as low as $99.95/hour. We also offer website management for Lethbridge websites, starting at $50/month, if you'd like the peace of mind knowing a company is proactively upgrading your site.

To get started, if you are new to our web maintenance company, we'll need you to pre-purchase a block of time which includes a discount on our hourly rate. If you are an existing client in Lethbridge, you are welcome to choose monthly billing at our higher hourly rate or continue to pre-purchase time and receive discounted hourly rates for your website updates.

If you pre-purchase a block of time for your Lethbridge web maintenance services, you will be happy to know there are no contracts, there are no hidden fees, the time never expires, and there are no minimum deductions for small website update requests. Please keep in mind we rarely see tasks take less than 10 minutes, since the process of reviewing an email or taking a phone call, checking on whatever was asked, providing some form of feedback, and then logging the task usually takes at least 10 minutes of time. To keep you informed of the time usage on your pre-purchased block of web maintenance time, you will receive a monthly email update letting you know how much time remains on your account.

What is Considered Billable Time?

When talking with prospective Lethbridge website maintenance clients, we are often asked what is considered billable time. You will find the answers to vary greatly within the website support industry. In some situations, you may find a website maintenance company in Lethbridge to charge a much higher hourly rate, but not bill out for communication and organization. Likewise, there are website support companies in Lethbridge who charge a more affordable hourly rate, but also bill out for most communication and organization. This is the approach we take. To help provide clarification, let's go over some examples of what we consider billable time when it comes to maintaining and supporting your Lethbridge website.

Here are examples of what is considered billable time:

• Reading through lengthy emails to understand what is being requested.
• Preparing responses to lengthy or complex email messages.
• Helping you figure out your domain name or web hosting provider.
• Scheduling your website maintenance to be completed by the best team member.
• Talking with you on the phone about ideas or tasks you want to discuss.
• Reviewing completed work for quality control purposes.
• Providing you training on how to handle administrative tasks.
• Researching unique solutions to difficult questions you present our team.
• Providing more detailed time usage reports, beyond the automated monthly update email.
• Helping you figure out email client issues within Microsoft Outlook, Apple Mail, etc.
• Almost any other task not specifically mentioned in the list below.

Here are examples of what is not considered billable time:

• Talking with you about personal matters, such as the weather, a recent vacation, or a sporting event.
• Responding to simple email messages that don't require research or lengthy feedback.
• Handling accounting-related tasks, such as invoice generation, payment confirmations, etc.

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