Arkansas Website Maintenance Services

What is Involved in Maintaining Arkansas Websites

We see web maintenance as a reactive support service where we provide your Arkansas business with the right web developer resources to fix just about any problem. There are many examples of website issues that might require service from Arkansas website support firms, including:

• Updating your website platform.
• Updating apps and plugins to make them safer and more functional.
• Adding new web pages as you release new information.
• Staying fresh with new blog content.
• Rearranging your Arkansas website's navigation menu.
• Improve your page speed to pass Google Core Web Vitals.
• Take backups of your website's files and databases.
• Modifying the look and feel of your website's design.
• Troubleshooting Google Search Console coverage issues.
• Adding structured data, open graph tags, etc.
• Providing solutions to other website problems.

These are just a few of the Arkansas web maintenance services we offer. Basically, Arkansas website maintenance is anything a web developer or internet marketer does to change your website.

Reactive Arkansas Website Support

Most Arkansas 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. When you choose to have our agency maintain your Arkansas website, we'll be your web support team on standby for any request. However, we can offer some proactive Arkansas web maintenance services.

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Proactive Arkansas Website Support

We're happy to help website owners in Arkansas who need proactive website upkeep! 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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Emergency Arkansas Website Support

If you need off-hours support, including holidays and weekends, check out our Arkansas web support service level agreements. This service must be in place before a website emergency happens at night, on the weekend, or during a holiday.

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Our website maintenance and support company is happy to provide Bentonville, Fayetteville, and Little Rock with fast website support services.

Who Needs Website Maintenance in Arkansas

There will come a time when every Arkansas website needs some sort of maintenance. The reason is simply that the internet is always changing. However, we don't charge a lot for Arkansas web support, so you'll be able to afford it! Website maintenance in Arkansas might be needed for these reasons:

• When a hosting provider upgrades their servers, they may remove older versions of PHP that your Arkansas website was originally developed to support. This means you have to refactor your app or upgrade to a newer framework that supports the new PHP version. You can't expect custom web functionality from the past to work forever.
• 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". Arkansas-area ecommerce businesses running Magento 1.x found themselves looking for an ecommerce developer to help migrate their store.
• 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. In most cases, this happens because the website owner didn't pay attention to the first two website support examples.
• You need to refresh your Arkansas website content when it's outdated or doesn't explain your organization, products, or services well enough for future visitors. Maintaining your Arkansas website is key to making sure it's working for you.

There are many reasons why a website might need maintenance, other than just to update something. When planning budgets and schedules for web maintenance and support, consider your Arkansas business's potential future needs.

How We Perform Arkansas Web Maintenance

It's our job to understand your website maintenance needs, schedule your work in a timely fashion, and follow up with your Arkansas business after the work is done.

Most web support services start with an email from you, the owner of the Arkansas website. Your email gets routed to our ticket system and automatically gets assigned to your project manager. Anyone on our team can work on the ticket without delay, resulting in faster turnaround time.

The process for Arkansas website support services that come from phone or chat is similar. We route the support request to the most appropriate web developer on our team based on the nature of the work needed on your website.

Example Web Maintenance Service List for Arkansas Businesses

After the launch of a website, we're often asked for detailed examples of Arkansas website maintenance requests. Here are several examples of Arkansas web support services we've been asked to perform in the past and would be more than happy to provide to you!

Simple Arkansas Website Updates

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

Arkansas Site Performance Improvements

We can analyze your Arkansas website for hosting issues, caching issues, unoptimized images, console errors, broken links, poor queries, and more if it's slow. It'll help improve page load times, which will make users and search engines happy.

Platform Upgrades / Security Updates

If your Arkansas website is running on a content management system, like WordPress, it is important to keep the platform updated. Updates help improve security and functionality - and they're usually quick, so it might be a simple task.

Plugin / Extension Upgrades

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

Google Search Console Issues

Has Google Search Console told you there's a coverage problem? If so, we'll look at the coverage issues, fix them, and update you on the status. This will help your search engine rankings, throughout Arkansas and beyond, by making Google happy!

Implement Structured Data

Do you ever see product prices or reviews in Google organic search results? This is structured data, which is a standardized way to describe the content on a webpage, whether it's a local Arkansas business, or an ecommerce product.

Implement Open Graph on Your Website

When people share links of your Arkansas 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.

Implement Google Tag Manager

Interested in using Google Tag Manager for managing custom scripts? Not a problem! We'll happily install Google Tag Manager on your Arkansas website and teach you how to use it.

Add Conversion Tracking

Tracking conversions is important if you want to understand the benefits of online advertising for your Arkansas website. Then you'll know where your conversions come from, whether it be direct traffic, organic search, or paid ads.

Image Optimization

Do you have a Arkansas website that's 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!

Integrate a Live Chat

Would you like to try live chat? If you'd like us to recommend the best live chat system for your Arkansas business, install the tracking code, and customize the design for your branding, we can do it!

Resolve Errors in Log Files

Do you have a lot of error_log files on your hosting account? If you're getting recurring error messages, we can update programming code or fix platform issues.

Integrate reCaptcha on Contact Forms

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

Setup a Caching Plugin

Are you interested in installing a caching plugin in your Arkansas website, but not sure how to properly configure the settings for best website performance? We can help recommend caching plugins, or just install and configure them for you!

Setup SMTP Email

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

Restrict IP Addresses

Is your Arkansas website being bombarded with fake orders, contact submissions or live chats from a specific network? We can help setup IP restrictions to prevent malicious traffic from interacting with your website.

Create Website Backups

Do you want to create a backup of your Arkansas website? We can help you create one-time or scheduled backups that store locally or at an offsite location.

Create a Development Website

It is often recommended that you setup a development or staging website before proceeding with a major upgrade or extension installation. If you'd like help creating and managing that development / staging site, just let us know!

Implement A/B Testing

Do you prefer to make design changes based on statistical data regarding how users interact with your Arkansas web page? If so, we can help you implement A/B testing to gather data to help inform you of the best choice between two or more design layouts.

Create 301 Redirects

Are you launching a new website or removing pages from your website? You should create 301 redirects for your Arkansas website. We've seen businesses in and around Arkansas lose huge amounts of organic traffic due to widespread broken pages. We can help you create 301 redirects within .htaccess files, nginx templates, and CMS platforms.

Provide Website Training

Do you need help learning how to make changes to your Arkansas website? If your Arkansas site was developed in a platform we work within, such as WordPress, Shopify or BigCommerce, we'll be happy to help!

The Platforms We Maintain for Arkansas Websites

With years of experience developing websites for Arkansas businesses (and those in other areas of the country), our web designers and web developers have been immersed in multiple platforms. That said, it is better to become a master of a handful of platforms rather than try to specialize in them all. Because of that, we tend to service only these platforms for Arkansas websites:

• Arkansas WordPress Web Maintenance
• Arkansas WooCommerce Web Maintenance
• Arkansas Shopify Website Maintenance
• Arkansas BigCommerce Web Support
• Arkansas Laravel Website Support

As a web maintenance firm, we used to maintain and support Joomla and Magento websites for Arkansas-area businesses. However, we chose to move away from those platforms to allow our web support experts to focus more heavily on training and support within the other systems.

Questions to Ask Arkansas Website Support Firms

Ask the Arkansas web maintenance company some questions about their services before you sign up for a package. This will help you get a better idea of the relationship you will have with the Arkansas website maintenance team before you give them money, provide them website access, and give them complete access to your website for one of their web support packages. You can ask these simple questions:

• What kind of security do you have on your site? Do you scan client websites for security?
• When can I expect an average Arkansas website support request to be completed?
• Is your Arkansas web maintenance outsourced?
• How much does Arkansas website maintenance cost?
• Are there minimum deductions or minimum billable expenses for Arkansas website updates?
• At what times of the day are you working and able to take our maintenance requests?
• Will you keep me informed about new updates within my platform?

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

Arkansas Website Support Plans and Tips

Companies in and around Arkansas often ask us for a web maintenance plan to establish routines and procedures. We are happy to help your Arkansas business develop a web maintenance plan to ensure all aspects of your website, hosting, and domain name are routinely checked to ensure optimum performance and uptime.

Read through this list of annual Arkansas website maintenance tasks to consider:

• 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.
• Try restoring a website backup to make sure the data is good enough for a full recovery. Also, make sure your backups are stored somewhere else besides Arkansas.
• Check out competitor sites (even those outside of Arkansas) to see if you're missing out on any competitive advantages they have over you.
• 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.
• Verify the necessity of any 3rd party tracking, live chat, or heat map scripts that are installed.
• Take down any unnecessary development or staging sites.

Check out this list of semi-annual Arkansas 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 that your hosting account isn't about to expire and you can access it.
• Make sure you can access your DNS in case anything needs to be changed.
• Make sure your SSL certificate isn't expiring soon.
• Make sure you have remote backups outside Arkansas and that your website backup schedule is working.
• Check if you have an automated image optimization service running.
• Make sure the website doesn't throw any console errors.

Check out this list of monthly Arkansas website support tasks to consider:

• Look for broken links on your website, which hurts SEO and user experience.
• Check your website for performance issues after recent updates or changes.
• See if there are any coverage issues in Google Search Console.
• Keep your website fresh by updating your content within one of your service pages or blog articles.
• Take a look at your website platform and extensions for any available updates.

The Cost of Web Maintenance Service in Arkansas

The starting price for our Arkansas 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 Arkansas websites, starting at $50/month, if you'd like the peace of mind knowing a company is proactively upgrading your site. For Arkansas businesses with mission-critical applications, we offer emergency Arkansas website support subscriptions, starting at $495/month, to extend our availability into nights & weekends.

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 Arkansas, 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 Arkansas 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 Arkansas 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 Arkansas to charge a much higher hourly rate, but not bill out for communication and organization. Likewise, there are website support companies in Arkansas 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 Arkansas 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.