Abbotsford, BC Website Maintenance Services

What is Involved in Maintaining Abbotsford, BC Websites

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:

• Updating your website platform.
• Installing app or plugin updates to improve security and functionality.
• Adding new web pages as you release new information.
• Staying fresh with new blog content.
• Rearranging the navigation menu of your Abbotsford website.
• Improving page speed to help you pass Google Core Web Vitals.
• Taking 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.
• Investigating the cause and providing a solution to any other website issue.

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.

Reactive Abbotsford Website Support

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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Proactive Abbotsford Website Support

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.

Who Needs Web Maintenance in Abbotsford, BC

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:

• When a hosting provider upgrades their servers, they may remove older versions of PHP that your Abbotsford 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 programmed in the past to work forever without any improvements.
• When an ecommerce platform or a content management system releases new versions, they eventually must deprecate the old versions so their teams can focus on maintaining the newer technologies. This recently happened to Magento 1.x ecommerce store owners who were forced to migrate to Magento 2.x, or an alternative ecommerce platform, because Magento 1.x had reached an “End of Life” status and would no longer be maintained or updated by Magento. Because of that, Magento 1.x ecommerce businesses in Abbotsford 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 website support examples.
• When the content on your Abbotsford website, which explains your organization, products, or services becomes outdated and needs to be refreshed to help ensure future visitors receive accurate information about your operation. Maintaining your Abbotsford website is key to making sure it's working for you.

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.

How We Perform Abbotsford, BC Web Maintenance

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.

Example Web Maintenance Service List for Abbotsford, BC Businesses

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!

Simple Abbotsford Website Updates

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.

Abbotsford Site Performance Improvements

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.

Platform Upgrades / Security Patches

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.

Extension / Plugin Updates

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.

Fixing 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. This will help your search engine rankings, throughout Abbotsford and beyond, by making Google happy!

Implement Structured Data

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.

Add Open Graph Tags on Your Website

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.

Implement Google Tag Manager

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.

Add Conversion Tracking

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.

Image Compression (Optimization)

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!

Setup Live Chat

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!

Resolve Errors in Log Files

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

Integrate reCaptcha on Contact Forms

We can set up a checkbox or invisible reCaptcha to help minimize unwanted submissions on your Abbotsford website.

Install a Caching Plugin

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!

Setup SMTP Email

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.

IP Address Restrictions

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.

Create Website Backups

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.

Create a Testing Website

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!

Create A/B Testing Rules

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.

Create 301 Redirects

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.

Provide Website Training

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.

The Platforms We Maintain for Abbotsford, BC Websites

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:

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

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.

Questions to Ask Abbotsford, BC Website Support Firms

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:

• How do you handle website security? Do you run security scans of customer websites?
• When can I expect an average Abbotsford website support request to be completed?
• Is your Abbotsford web maintenance outsourced?
• What are your Abbotsford website maintenance costs?
• Do you have minimum deductions or minimum billable expenses for Abbotsford website updates?
• What are your normal hours of operation?
• How will I know about new updates to my platform?

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.

Abbotsford, BC Website Support Plans and Tips

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:

• Ask your web hosting company if they have newer servers you can migrate 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 Abbotsford.
• Look at competitor websites (even those outside of Abbotsford) to see if you are missing out on new functionality for your own customers.
• Perform a full security review of your website to ensure nothing has been compromised or left vulnerable.
• Verify structured data, open graph, and social links are all working properly.
• 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 Abbotsford web support tasks to review:

• Ensure you have access to your domain name and that it isn't expiring soon. This will be helpful when you have to process a domain name renewal.
• Check that your hosting account isn't about to expire and you can access it.
• Make sure you have access to your DNS.
• Find out if your SSL certificate will expire soon.
• Make sure you have remote backups outside Abbotsford 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 Abbotsford website support tasks to consider:

• Check for broken links on your website, which negatively impact user experience and SEO.
• Check for website performance issues from recent updates or changes on the website.
• Check Google Search Console for any coverage issues.
• 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 Abbotsford, BC

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.

What is Considered Billable Time?

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:

• 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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