Bakersfield Website Maintenance Services

Our Bakersfield, CA Website Maintenance Services

We view website maintenance to be a reactive support service that provides your Bakersfield organization with the appropriate web developer resources to solve nearly any website problem. Here are a few examples of site glitches that might need Bakersfield web maintenance:

• Updating your website platform.
• Keeping apps and plugins updated for better security and functionality.
• Adding new web pages as you release new products or services.
• Staying fresh with new blog content.
• Rearranging the navigation menu of your Bakersfield website.
• Improving website speed to help you pass Google Core Web Vitals.
• Take backups of your website's files and databases.
• Modifying the look and feel of your website's design.
• Fixing Google Search Console coverage glitches.
• Enhancing technical SEO with structured data, open graph tags, etc.
• Providing solutions to other website concerns.

These are just a few of the Bakersfield website support services we offer. In fact, Bakersfield web maintenance is basically anything a website developer or digital marketer does to your website.

If you live in Bakersfield, you probably love the Cal State Bakersfield Roadrunners basketball team. Go Cal State Bakersfield Roadrunners! In addition to supporting Bakersfield-area websites, our web maintenance agency also offers Anaheim, Chico, Fontana, Fremont, Fresno, Irvine, Long Beach, Los Angeles, Modesto, Monterey, Oakland, Palm Springs, Redding, Riverside, Sacramento, Salinas, San Bernardino, San Diego, San Francisco, San Jose, Santa Ana, Santa Clarita, Santa Rosa, Stockton, and Visalia small businesses and large corporations help with their websites.

Pricing for Bakersfield, CA Website Maintenance

The starting price for our web 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.

When you purchase a web maintenance retainer, there are no minimum deductions, expirations, contracts, or hidden fees.

Please know we rarely see tasks take less than 10 minutes, since the process of reviewing an email or taking a phone call, working on the request, providing feedback, and logging the task usually takes that much time.

To keep you in the loop regarding your pre-purchased website maintenance retainer, we will send you a monthly update that outlines your account's time usage and remaining balance.

Our Bakersfield, CA Website Management Services

Tired of being warned about available updates? Concerned about the possibility of website downtime? By utilizing proactive website management, our web development team can handle both worries and keep your website running smoothly!

Take a look at what is covered in our website management plans, outlined for you below:

1.) Proactive Website Updates

Our in-house team of website experts is available to perform platform, template, and plugin/extension updates on a quarterly or monthly basis for WordPress or WooCommerce websites!

1. Backup: We start by taking backups of your website files and database.
2. Install Updates: Next, we manually install any available updates on your website.
3. Test: Our next step involves testing your website for any potential issues following the installation of upgrades.
4. Finalize: If the updates were successful, you'll be better protected against security threats and malware! If the upgrades aren't successful, we'll discuss next steps.

2.) Remotely Stored Site Backups

Our process involves storing remote backups of your website and database in order to minimize the possibility of data loss.

3.) Site Uptime Monitoring

Our uptime monitoring system enables us to keep tabs on your website for any potential service outages.

If your website experiences downtime, our website developers will be alerted so that they can promptly investigate and address the issue.

Pricing for Bakersfield, CA Website Management

Our website management plans are offered in monthly and quarterly options. With our service, you have the option to determine the frequency at which our team conducts remote backups and updates for your website.

The Platforms We Maintain for Bakersfield, CA Websites

We have a diverse team of web designers and web developers, for Bakersfield small businesses, who have been immersed in multiple site platforms over the years. Having said that, it's better to master a few platforms than try to specialize in them all. Because of that, we tend to service only these platforms for Bakersfield websites:

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

In the past, we provided web maintenance and support for Joomla and Magento platforms of Bakersfield small businesses. However, we chose to move away from those platforms to allow our web maintenance experts to focus more heavily on training and support within the other systems.

Example Website Maintenance Service List for Bakersfield, CA Organizations

We are often asked for detailed examples of Bakersfield website support requests that might come up after the launch of a website. The following are some examples of Bakersfield website maintenance services we've provided in the past.

Basic Bakersfield Website Changes

Changes to your Bakersfield website could be as basic as updating a paragraph, swapping images, or adding a new page. These are just normal, routine web support duties to keep content fresh for both search engines and visitors.

Bakersfield Website Performance Improvements

If your Bakersfield website isn't running as fast as it once was, we can review your website for hosting concerns, caching glitches, 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 SEO.

Platform Upgrades / Security Updates

If your Bakersfield website is running on a content management system, like WordPress, it is important to keep the platform updated. The updates improve security and functionality - sometimes they're quick, so it's an easy win!

Extension / Plugin Updates

It's important to upgrade your Bakersfield 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.

Fixing Search Console Issues

Did you get a report from Google Search Console telling you about a coverage issue? If so, we can fix the coverage problems, and let you know how it went. Make Google happy, and you'll rank higher throughout Bakersfield and beyond!

Implement Structured Data

Have you ever noticed information like reviews or product prices in the listing of a Google organic search result? This is structured data, which is a standardized way of describing content on the web, whether it's a local business in Bakersfield or an ecommerce product.

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 platforms when people share links of your Bakersfield business.

Add Google Tag Manager

Are you interested in adding Google Tag Manager to your website to help you manage custom scripts more easily? That won't be a problem! We'll happily install Google Tag Manager on your Bakersfield website and teach you how to use it.

Setup Conversion Tracking

It's important to setup conversion tracking for your Bakersfield website if you want to understand the benefits of digital advertising. It'll help you understand where your conversions come from, like direct traffic, referral links, organic search, or paid advertising.

Optimize Images

Do you have a Bakersfield website that's slow because of large images? That won't be a problem! All your images can be compressed by our tools, and we can even setup recurring compression for newly added images!

Setup Live Chat

Would you like to try 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 Bakersfield business!

Review Error Log Files

Are your error_log files big? We can help diagnose the issue and update programming code or repair platform errors to prevent recurring error messages.

Setup reCaptcha on Forms

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

Install a Caching Plugin

Interested in installing a caching plugin for your Bakersfield website, but don't know how to set it up? We can help you figure out which caching plugins to install and configure on your website!

Setup 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.

Restrict Malicious IP Addresses

Have you been getting fake orders, contact submissions, or live chats from a particular network? We can help setup IP restrictions to prevent malicious traffic from interacting with your website.

Backup Your Website Files

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

Create a Testing Website

It is often recommended that you setup a development or staging website before proceeding with a major update 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 Bakersfield web design tweaks based on statistical data? A/B testing can help you decide between two or more design layouts based on the data collected.

Add 301 Redirects

Are you launching a new site or removing pages from your website? Make sure your Bakersfield website has 301 redirects to prevent or at least minimize 404 errors. Having broken pages will cost your Bakersfield small business a lot of organic traffic if they aren't fixed with 301 redirects. We are happy to help you resolve broken pages through the creation of 301 redirects within .htaccess files, nginx templates, and CMS plugins.

Provide Website Training

Need help learning how to make easy changes to your Bakersfield website? If your Bakersfield website was developed in a platform we work within, such as WordPress or WordPress, we'll be happy to help!

Questions to Ask Bakersfield, CA Website Maintenance Firms

Before signing up for any Bakersfield website support package, it is important to ask the Bakersfield web maintenance firm some questions about how their services work. It'll give you a better idea of the experience you'll have with their expert California website support packages prior to making payment and providing website access. You can ask these basic questions:

• Can you tell me how you handle site security? Do you analyze website security scans for customers?
• What is the turnaround time for Bakersfield website support requests?
• Is your Bakersfield web maintenance outsourced?
• What are your Bakersfield web maintenance costs?
• Do you have minimum deductions or minimum billable expenses for Bakersfield 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 any Bakersfield website services company these questions before subscribing to their website maintenance packages, you'll have a much better idea of the future relationship, the security of your website, and the expected turnaround time for important requests.

Bakersfield, CA Website Support Packages and Tips

We are often asked for a web maintenance plan by larger companies in and around Bakersfield looking to establish routines and procedures within their IT department. We can help your Bakersfield small business set up a web support plan so all aspects of your website, hosting, and domain name are monitored regularly.

Yearly Bakersfield web maintenance work

• Message your web hosting company to see if they have upgraded servers you can switch your website to for faster page speeds.
• Check if your website platform has a new major release that will require an extensive website migration.
• Try restoring a site backup to make sure the data is good enough for a full recovery. Also, make sure your backups are stored somewhere else besides Bakersfield.
• Look at competitor websites (even those outside of Bakersfield) 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.
• Ensure that structured data, open graph, and social links are all working.
• Verify the necessity of any third party tracking, live chat, or heat map scripts that are installed.
• Delete any development or staging websites you don't need.

Semi-annual Bakersfield website maintenance tasks

• 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 have access to your DNS.
• Check if your SSL certificate will be expiring in the near future.
• Make sure your website backup schedule is working and you have remote backups.
• If you have an automated image optimization service, verify it is working properly.
• Make sure the website doesn't throw any console errors.

Monthly Bakersfield website maintenance tasks

• Ensure your website doesn't have any broken links, which affect UX and search engine optimization.
• Check for page speed concerns from recent updates or changes on the website.
• Check Google Search Console for any coverage problems.
• Update some of your service pages or blog articles to keep your site fresh.
• Check if there are available platform or extension updates.

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