Casa Grande Website Maintenance Services

What is Involved in Maintaining Casa Grande, AZ Websites

Web maintenance is a reactive support service that connects you with the right web developer to fix nearly any website issue. Here are a few examples of website problems that might need Casa Grande website maintenance:

• Making sure your website's platform is up to date.
• Updating apps and plugins to make them safer and more functional.
• Adding new web pages as you release new information.
• Freshen up your blog with new content.
• Rearranging the navigation menu of your Casa Grande website.
• Improve your page speed to pass Google Core Web Vitals.
• Take backups of your website's files and databases.
• Making your website look and feel better.
• Troubleshooting Google Search Console coverage issues.
• Enhancing technical SEO with structured data, open graph tags, etc.
• Providing solutions to other website problems.

Those services are just a taste of what Casa Grande web support might look like. In fact, Casa Grande website support is really anything a web developer or digital marketer does to your website to change it in some manner.

Reactive Casa Grande Website Support

We consider web maintenance a reactive service because most Casa Grande website owners don't want a developer messing with their website without their permission. Our firm will be your web support team on standby for any questions you have. However, we can provide some proactive web support services for your Casa Grande website.

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Proactive Casa Grande Website Support

We're happy to help website owners in Casa Grande who need proactive website upkeep! There are several website support services, including platform upgrades, app / extension updates, website backups, performance monitoring, and broken link monitoring, that our website maintainers can handle in a proactive manner.

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In addition to supporting Casa Grande-area websites, our web maintenance agency also offers Avondale, Buckeye, Chandler, Flagstaff, Gilbert, Glendale, Goodyear, Mesa, Peoria, Phoenix, Scottsdale, Surprise, Tempe, Tucson, and Yuma small businesses and large corporations help with their websites.

Who Needs Website Maintenance in Casa Grande, AZ

Every Casa Grande website will need some web support at some point. It's because the internet is always changing. But don't worry, our Casa Grande website support costs aren't too high, so you can afford it! Website maintenance in Casa Grande might be needed for these reasons:

• When a hosting provider upgrades their servers, they may remove older versions of PHP that your Casa Grande website was originally developed to support. That means you'll have to refactor your app or upgrade to a newer framework that supports the latest PHP release. 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 was no longer maintained by Magento after it reached "End of Life". Because of that, Magento 1.x ecommerce businesses in Casa Grande were suddenly looking for an ecommerce developer to help migrate their website to a supported platform.
• 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 web maintenance examples.
• You need to refresh your Casa Grande website content when it's outdated or doesn't explain your organization, products, or services well enough for future visitors. Keeping your Casa Grande website up to date is key to its success.

As you can see, there are many reasons a website may require maintenance above and beyond the obvious reasons of just wanting to update something on the website. When planning budgets and schedules for website maintenance and support, consider your Casa Grande business's potential future needs.

How We Perform Casa Grande, AZ Web Support

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

A Casa Grande web maintenance service usually starts with an email from you. Your email gets routed into our ticket system and automatically assigned to your project manager. Anyone on our team can work on the ticket without delay, resulting in faster turnaround time.

The process for Casa Grande web maintenance services that come from phone or chat is similar. A support request is entered into our ticket system by the person in the conversation with you, so the work order can be routed to the right web developer.

Example Website Maintenance Service List for Casa Grande, AZ Businesses

We're often asked for examples of Casa Grande web support requests after a website launches. The following are some examples of Casa Grande website support services we've provided in the past.

Simple Casa Grande Website Tweaks

Your Casa Grande website might need a paragraph updated, an image changed, or a new page added. This is just normal, routine web maintenance to keep content fresh for both search engines and visitors.

Casa Grande Website Speed Improvements

If your Casa Grande 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 Upgrades / Security Updates

Keeping your Casa Grande website's content management system updated is important if it's running on 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 Casa Grande website's plugins and extensions to reflect the latest changes by the developers. The idea is similar to updating the CMS platform since it fixes security and functionality problems.

Google Search Console Fixes

Has Google Search Console told you there's a coverage problem? If so, we can fix the coverage issues, and let you know how it went. By making Google happy, you'll boost your search engine rankings throughout Casa Grande and beyond!

Add Structured Data

When you search Google organically, have you noticed reviews or prices in the search results? This is structured data, which is a standardized way to describe the content on a webpage, whether it's a local Casa Grande business, or an ecommerce product.

Add Open Graph Tags on Your Website

When people share links of your Casa Grande 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

Would you like to manage custom scripts more easily with Google Tag Manager? No problem at all! We'll happily install Google Tag Manager on your Casa Grande website and teach you how to use it.

Setup Conversion Tracking

Tracking conversions is important if you want to understand the benefits of online advertising for your Casa Grande website. This will help you understand where your conversions are coming from, such as a Google search or a Bing Ads campaign.

Image Optimization

Do you have a Casa Grande website that's slow because of large images? Not a problem! Using our image compression tools, we can compress all your images and even set up recurring compression for new images!

Integrate a Live Chat

Is your website ready for live chat? We can make recommendations on the best live chat systems for your business requirements, install the tracking code, and configure the design to match the branding of your Casa Grande business!

Resolve Errors in Log Files

Are your error_log files big? If you're getting recurring error messages, we can update programming code or fix platform issues.

Reduce Spam with reCaptcha

To reduce unwanted submissions on your Casa Grande website, we can setup an invisible or checkbox reCaptcha.

Install a Caching Plugin

Looking to install a caching plugin on your Casa Grande website, but not sure how to configure it? We can help recommend caching plugins, or just install and configure them for you!

Implement SMTP Email

We can configure your contact form and website platform to send emails through an SMTP account instead of PHP mail to improve email deliverability.

IP Address Restrictions

Is your Casa Grande website getting fake orders, contact submissions, or live chats? Our team can help set up IP restrictions so your website doesn't get hit with as much malicious traffic.

Run Website & Database Backups

Do you want to create a backup of your Casa Grande website? Backups can be performed one-time, or scheduled at specific intervals, and stored locally or offsite.

Create a Testing Website

Before you do a major update or extension installation, it's a good idea to setup a development or staging site. Whenever you need help with creating and managing your development site, just let us know!

Create A/B Testing Rules

Are you a fan of making Casa Grande 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.

Create 301 Redirects

Do you have a new website or are you removing pages? Make sure your Casa Grande website has 301 redirects to prevent or at least minimize 404 errors. Businesses in and around Casa Grande have lost a lot of organic traffic because of broken pages. It is a very common mistake when launching new websites, removing content pages, or disabling product pages. We can help you set up 301 redirects in .htaccess files, nginx templates, and CMS platforms.

Offer Website Training

Want to learn how to make simple edits to your Casa Grande website? If your Casa Grande site was developed in a platform we work within, such as WordPress or Shopify, we'll be happy to help!

The Platforms We Maintain for Casa Grande, AZ Websites

For Casa Grande businesses, we have a team of web designers and web developers who have experience with multiple platforms. Having said that, it's better to master a few platforms than try to specialize in them all. Therefore, we tend to only maintain Casa Grande websites on these platforms:

• Casa Grande WordPress Website Maintenance
• Casa Grande WooCommerce Web Support
• Casa Grande Shopify Website Support

As a web maintenance agency, we used to maintain and support Joomla and Magento websites for Casa Grande-area businesses. The reason we moved away from those platforms was to let our website maintenance experts focus more on training and support.

Questions to Ask Casa Grande, AZ Web Support Agencies

If you're thinking about signing up for any Casa Grande web maintenance package, make sure you ask the company how their services work. It'll give you a better idea of the experience you'll have with their premium Arizona web support services prior to making payment and providing website access. Here are some simple questions to ask:

• What kind of security do you have on your site? Do you scan client websites for security?
• When can I expect an average Casa Grande website support request to be completed?
• Are you outsourcing your Casa Grande web maintenance services?
• What are your Casa Grande web maintenance costs?
• Are there minimum deductions or minimum billable expenses for Casa Grande website updates?
• At what times of the day are you working and able to take our maintenance requests?
• How will I know about new updates to my platform?

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

Casa Grande, AZ Web Support Plans and Tips

Larger companies in and around Casa Grande often ask us for a website support plan. We can help your Casa Grande business set up a web maintenance plan so all aspects of your website, hosting, and domain name are monitored regularly.

Check out this list of annual Casa Grande website maintenance tasks to review:

• Check if your web hosting provider has newer servers that your account can be migrated to.
• Check if your website platform is releasing a major upgrade in the near future which will require a major overhaul of your website.
• Restore a website backup to make sure the data is enough for full recovery. Also, make sure your backups are stored remotely.
• Look at competitor websites (even those outside of Casa Grande) 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.
• Ensure that structured data, open graph, and social links are all working.
• Check if any 3rd party tracking, live chat, or heat map scripts are installed but no longer necessary.
• Take down any unnecessary development or staging sites.

Read through this list of semi-annual Casa Grande web support 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.
• Check your hosting account credentials and make sure it's not about to expire.
• Ensure you have access to your DNS in case you need to change anything.
• Make sure your SSL certificate isn't expiring soon.
• Make sure your website backup schedule is working and you have remote backups.
• Make sure you're running an image optimization service.
• See if there are any console errors on the website.

Read through this list of monthly Casa Grande website support tasks to review:

• Look for broken links on your website, which hurts SEO and user experience.
• Check for website performance issues from recent updates or changes on the website.
• 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.
• See if there are any updates for your website platform or extensions.

The Cost of Web Maintenance Service in Casa Grande, AZ

The starting price for our Casa Grande 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 Casa Grande 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 Casa Grande, 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 Casa Grande 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 Casa Grande 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 Casa Grande to charge a much higher hourly rate, but not bill out for communication and organization. Likewise, there are website support companies in Casa Grande 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 Casa Grande 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.