Our team doesn't just build Abbotsford websites; we also offer website maintenance and support services because we know questions and concerns come up!
We're a web support agency with a team of website experts that never outsources Abbotsford web maintenance to anyone.
We're the perfect choice for all of your Abbotsford website maintenance needs, including platform upgrades, website speed improvements, security fixes, and issue resolutions.
We emphasize availability and communication for our Abbotsford web support services. If you need something simple done the same day or have a complex question that is best explained over the phone, you'll have no problem getting in touch with a member of our website team to make it happen!
We see website maintenance as a reactive support service where we provide your Abbotsford business with the right web developer resources to fix just about any problem. These are some examples of website issues that Abbotsford web maintenance agencies might fix:
These are just a few of the Abbotsford website maintenance services we offer. In fact, Abbotsford web support is basically anything a web developer or digital marketer does to your website.
Most Abbotsford website owners wouldn't want a web developer messing around with their site without their permission. That's why we consider website support a reactive service. When you choose to have our company maintain your Abbotsford website, we'll be your web support team on standby for any request. However, we can offer some proactive Abbotsford website maintenance services.
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For website owners in Abbotsford interested in a proactive management service for some of their website upkeep requirements, we are happy to accommodate! There are several web 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 Abbotsford-area websites, our website support firm also offers Vancouver, Surrey, Burnaby, Kelowna, Nanaimo, Victoria, and Chilliwack small businesses and large corporations help with their websites.
There will come a time when every Abbotsford website needs some sort of maintenance. It's just that the internet changes all the time. However, we don't charge a lot for Abbotsford website maintenance, so you'll be able to afford it! Here are some common reasons why a website in Abbotsford might require web support services:
Above and beyond just updating something, there are plenty of reasons why a website might need maintenance. Plan your budget and schedules for website support and maintenance based on your Abbotsford business's potential future needs.
It's our job to understand your website maintenance needs, schedule your work in a timely fashion, and follow up with your Abbotsford business after the work is done.
Most Abbotsford web support 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. From there, anyone on our team can work on the ticket without delay, leading to faster turnaround time and simplified internal communication.
The process for Abbotsford 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.
After the launch of a website, we're often asked for detailed examples of Abbotsford web maintenance requests. We've performed these Abbotsford website maintenance services in the past, and would be happy to do it for you too!
A simple change to your Abbotsford website might include updating a paragraph on a page, swapping out an image, or adding a new page. This is just normal, routine web support to keep content fresh for both search engines and visitors.
If your Abbotsford 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. This will help improve page load times, which are beneficial to user experience and search engine optimization.
Keeping your Abbotsford 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.
If your Abbotsford website has functionality developed and maintained by a third-party, it is important to update those plugins and extensions to include the latest changes by the developers. It's similar to updating the CMS platform since it helps patch security and functionality 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. This will help your search engine rankings, throughout Abbotsford and beyond, by making Google happy!
Do you ever see product prices or reviews in Google organic search results? 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 Abbotsford, and ecommerce product or some other common data type.
Adding Open Graph Tags to your website will help search engines better understand your page content and improve the appearance of your website in social media platforms when people share links of your Abbotsford business.
Interested in using Google Tag Manager for managing custom scripts? No problem at all! We can add Google Tag Manager to your Abbotsford website and even give you a crash course in using Google Tag Manager.
Tracking conversions is important if you want to understand the benefits of online advertising for your Abbotsford website. It'll help you understand where your conversions come from, like direct traffic, referral links, organic search, or paid ads.
Are large images slowing down your Abbotsford website? That won't be a problem! Using our image compression tools, we can compress all your images and even set up recurring compression for new images!
Do you want to try live chat on your website? 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 Abbotsford business!
Are your error_log files big? To stop recurring error messages, we can diagnose the problem and update programming code.
We can set up a checkbox or invisible reCaptcha to help minimize unwanted submissions on your Abbotsford website.
Looking to install a caching plugin on your Abbotsford website, but not sure how to configure it? We can help you figure out which caching plugins to install and configure on your website!
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.
Is your Abbotsford 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.
Is it time to make a backup of your Abbotsford website? Let us help you create one-time or scheduled backups that you can store locally or offsite.
It is often recommended that you setup a development or staging website before proceeding with a major upgrade or extension installation. Just let us know if you need help creating and managing that development / staging site!
Are you a fan of making Abbotsford 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.
Have you launched a new website or removed pages? Make sure your Abbotsford website has 301 redirects to prevent or at least minimize 404 errors. We've seen businesses in and around Abbotsford 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.
Need help learning how to make simple changes to your Abbotsford website? We'll be happy to help if your Abbotsford site was built on a platform we work with, such as WordPress or Shopify.
With years of experience developing websites for Abbotsford businesses (and those in other areas of the country), our web designers and web developers have been immersed in 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 Abbotsford websites:
In the past, we provided website maintenance and support for Joomla and Magento platforms of Abbotsford businesses. The reason we moved away from those platforms was to let our web support experts focus more on training and support.
Ask the Abbotsford web maintenance company some questions about their services before you sign up for a package. By doing this, you'll be able to better understand your future experience with their professional British Columbia web support services before you submit payment or provide website access. You can ask these simple questions:
If you ask these questions to a Abbotsford 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.
Companies in and around Abbotsford often ask us for a web maintenance plan to establish routines and procedures. Whether it's your website, hosting, or domain name, we'll make sure your Abbotsford business has a web maintenance plan to ensure optimum performance.
Read through this list of annual Abbotsford website maintenance tasks to consider:
Read through this list of semi-annual Abbotsford web support tasks to review:
Check out this list of monthly Abbotsford website support tasks to consider:
The starting price for our Abbotsford 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 Abbotsford 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 Abbotsford, 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 Abbotsford 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.
When talking with prospective Abbotsford 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 Abbotsford to charge a much higher hourly rate, but not bill out for communication and organization. Likewise, there are website support companies in Abbotsford 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 Abbotsford website.
Here are examples of what is considered billable time:
Here are examples of what is not considered billable time:
WebCitz offers discounted Abbotsford website maintenance services for clients interested in retaining our services through a pre-purchased block of time.
Example #1: You are an existing client in Abbotsford with a 10-hour block of time ($1,095) on your account. You have a 30-minute phone call with your project manager to discuss tasks, but 15 minutes is spent talking about golf, weather, etc. The task took 40 minutes of work to complete. In this example, you would have 55 minutes deducted from your 10-hour block of time. The time spent talking about non business-related topics isn't billed.
For Abbotsford site owners interested in proactive website and extension updates.
Example #1: You are an existing Abbotsford client with a 10-hour block of time ($1,095) on your account and a monthly website management subscription ($125/mo). During the month of website management, our team logged into your website, performed the necessary upgrades, tested your website's functionality, and reported back to you the website was upgraded without any issues. In this situation, no time would be deducted from your 10-hour block of time.
Example #2: The same situation and process as the first example, but while testing the functionality we discover something has broken. In this example, we would spend 15-20 minutes to attempt resolving the issue, at no charge to you. If we are unable to resolve the issue in that time, we would roll back your website to a previous state. From there, we would discuss resolutions with you that would be subject to time deductions from your 10-hour block of time.