Our team doesn't just build Surrey websites; we also offer website maintenance and support services because we know questions and concerns come up!
We're a website support firm with a team of website experts that never outsources Surrey web maintenance to anyone.
This makes our website maintenance firm the perfect choice to provide all your Surrey website support needs, including website platform upgrades, site speed improvements, website security fixes, website issue resolutions, and anything else related to improving your website.
You'll enjoy working with our team for your Surrey website support services because of the emphasis we put on availability and communication. 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 web maintenance as a reactive support service where we provide your Surrey 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 Surrey website maintenance agencies, including:
The previously mentioned services are just a glimpse of what we view as possible Surrey website support services. In fact, Surrey web maintenance is basically anything a web developer or digital marketer does to your website.
Most Surrey website owners wouldn't want a web developer messing around with their site without their permission. That's why we consider web maintenance a reactive service. You can count on our company to keep your Surrey website running smoothly. There are some web support services we can provide your Surrey website in a proactive manner though.
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We're happy to help website owners in Surrey 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 Surrey-area websites, our web maintenance firm also offers Vancouver, Burnaby, Abbotsford, Kelowna, Nanaimo, Victoria, and Chilliwack small businesses and large corporations help with their websites.
There will come a time when every Surrey website needs some sort of maintenance. The reason is simply that the internet is always changing. Not to worry though, our Surrey website support cost isn't expensive so it should be affordable for you to maintain your website! Here are some common reasons why a website in Surrey might require web maintenance services:
Above and beyond just updating something, there are plenty of reasons why a website might need maintenance. When planning budgets and schedules for web support and support, consider your Surrey business's potential future needs.
It's our job to understand your web maintenance needs, schedule your work in a timely fashion, and follow up with your Surrey business after the work is done.
Most website maintenance services start with an email from you, the owner of the Surrey website. That email is routed into our ticket system and automatically assigned to the project manager on your account. 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 Surrey web 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 Surrey web maintenance requests. Here are several examples of Surrey web maintenance services we've been asked to perform in the past and would be more than happy to provide to you!
A simple change to your Surrey website might include updating a paragraph on a page, swapping out an image, or adding a new page. This is just normal, routine website maintenance to keep content fresh for both search engines and visitors.
Let us check your Surrey website for hosting, caching, image optimization, console errors, broken links, poor database queries, and other potential problems that might be impacting your page speed. User experience and SEO will both benefit from better page load times.
Keeping your Surrey 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 Surrey 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. This is similar to the idea of updating the CMS platform since it helps patch security and functionality 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. Make Google happy, and you'll rank higher throughout Surrey and beyond!
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 Surrey business, or an ecommerce product.
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 Surrey business.
Interested in using Google Tag Manager for managing custom scripts? That won't be a problem! We'll happily install Google Tag Manager on your Surrey website and teach you how to use it.
If you are interested in understanding the benefit of an online advertising campaign for your Surrey website, it is important to setup conversion tracking. Then you'll know where your conversions come from, whether it be direct traffic, organic search, or paid ads.
Are large images slowing down your Surrey website? No problem at all! We can run all your images through our image compression tools and even setup recurring image compression for newly added images in the future!
Would you like to try live chat? If you'd like us to recommend the best live chat system for your Surrey business, install the tracking code, and customize the design for your branding, we can do it!
Have you noticed large error_log files on your hosting account? If you're getting recurring error messages, we can update programming code or fix platform issues.
If spambots are attacking your Surrey website, we can setup a checkbox or invisible reCaptcha to help minimize unwanted submissions on your forms.
Are you interested in installing a caching plugin in your Surrey website, but not sure how to properly configure the settings for best website performance? 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 Surrey 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.
Do you want to create a backup of your Surrey website? We can help you create one-time or scheduled backups that store locally or at an offsite location.
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!
Do you prefer to make design changes based on statistical data regarding how users interact with your Surrey 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.
Are you launching a new website or removing pages from your website? You should create 301 redirects for your Surrey website. We've seen businesses in and around Surrey 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.
Do you need help learning how to make changes to your Surrey website? If your Surrey site was developed in a platform we work within, such as WordPress or Shopify, we'll be happy to help!
With years of experience developing websites for Surrey 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. For that reason, our web support agency for Surrey websites tends to service only the following platforms:
In the past, we provided website maintenance and support for Joomla and Magento platforms of Surrey businesses. The reason we moved away from those platforms was to let our website support experts focus more on training and support.
Ask the Surrey website maintenance company some questions about their services before you sign up for a package. This will help you get a better idea of the experience you will have with their premium British Columbia website support services before you submit payment and provide website access. Let's go over some simple questions to ask:
If you ask these questions to a Surrey 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 Surrey often ask us for a web maintenance plan to establish routines and procedures. We are happy to help your Surrey 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.
Here is a list of annual Surrey website maintenance tasks to review:
Here is a list of semi-annual Surrey web support tasks to consider:
Check out this list of monthly Surrey website support tasks to consider:
The starting price for our Surrey 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 Surrey 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 Surrey, 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 Surrey 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 Surrey 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 Surrey to charge a much higher hourly rate, but not bill out for communication and organization. Likewise, there are website support companies in Surrey 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 Surrey website.
Here are examples of what is considered billable time:
Here are examples of what is not considered billable time:
WebCitz offers discounted Surrey 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 Surrey 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 Surrey site owners interested in proactive website and extension updates.
Example #1: You are an existing Surrey 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.