Castle Rock Website Maintenance Services

What is Involved in Maintaining Castle Rock, CO Websites

Web maintenance is a reactive support service that connects you with the right web developer to fix nearly any website issue. Here are a few examples of website problems that might need Castle Rock website maintenance:

• Making sure your website's platform is up to date.
• Keeping apps and plugins updated for better security and functionality.
• Adding new web pages as you release new products or services.
• Freshen up your blog with new content.
• Rearranging your Castle Rock site's navigation menu.
• Improve your page speed to pass Google Core Web Vitals.
• Taking backups of your website's files and databases.
• Modifying the look and feel of your website's design.
• Troubleshooting Google Search Console coverage issues.
• Enhancing technical SEO with structured data, open graph tags, etc.
• Providing solutions to other website problems.

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

Reactive Castle Rock Website Support

We consider web maintenance a reactive service because most Castle Rock website owners don't want a developer messing with their website without their permission. Our firm will be your web support team on standby for any questions you have. However, we can offer some proactive Castle Rock web support services.

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Proactive Castle Rock Website Support

We're happy to help website owners in Castle Rock who need proactive website upkeep! We can take care of platform upgrades, app/extension updates, website backups, performance monitoring, and broken link monitoring as part of our proactive website management service.

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In addition to supporting Castle Rock-area websites, our website support firm also offers Arvada, Aurora, Boulder, Centennial, Colorado Springs, Denver, Fort Collins, Grand Junction, Greeley, Highlands Ranch, Lakewood, Longmont, Loveland, Montrose, Pueblo, Thornton, and Westminster small businesses and large corporations help with their websites.

Who Needs Web Maintenance in Castle Rock, CO

Every Castle Rock website will need some website maintenance at some point. It's because the internet is always changing. But don't worry, our Castle Rock web support costs aren't too high, so you can afford it! There are a few reasons why a website in Castle Rock might need maintenance:

• When a hosting company upgrades their servers, they may remove older versions of PHP that your Castle Rock website was originally developed to support. That means you'll have to refactor your app or upgrade to a newer framework that supports the latest PHP release. There's no way you can expect custom web functionality 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. 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. Castle Rock-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. This is time-consuming, and often happens when the website owner isn't paying attention to the first two website support examples.
• You need to refresh your Castle Rock website content when it's outdated or doesn't explain your organization, products, or services well enough for future visitors. Maintaining your Castle Rock 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 Castle Rock business's potential future needs.

How We Perform Castle Rock, CO Website Maintenance

Our professional web support team puts in a lot of effort to understand your needs, schedule your work on time, and follow up with your Castle Rock business after the work is done.

A Castle Rock website support service usually starts with an email from you. Your email gets routed into our ticket system and automatically assigned to your project manager. We can then work on the ticket without delay, which leads to faster turnaround and easier internal communication.

For requests that originate from phone or live chat, a similar process to handling your Castle Rock web maintenance services unfolds. A support request is entered into our ticket system by the person in the conversation with you, so the work order can be routed to the right web developer.

Example Web Maintenance Service List for Castle Rock, CO Businesses

We're often asked for examples of Castle Rock website maintenance requests after a website launches. The following are some examples of Castle Rock web support services we've provided in the past.

Simple Castle Rock Website Tweaks

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

Castle Rock Website Speed Improvements

Let us check your Castle Rock website for hosting, caching, image optimization, console errors, broken links, poor database queries, and other potential problems that might be impacting your page speed. It'll help improve page load times, which will make users and search engines happy.

Platform Upgrades / Security Patches

If your Castle Rock 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.

Extension / Plugin Updates

It's important to update your Castle Rock 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 can fix the coverage issues, and let you know how it went. By making Google happy, you'll boost your search engine rankings throughout Castle Rock 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 to describe the content on a webpage, whether it's a local Castle Rock business, or an ecommerce product.

Add Open Graph to Your Website

When people share links of your Castle Rock 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.

Setup Google Tag Manager

Are you interested in adding Google Tag Manager to your website to help you manage custom scripts more easily? No problem at all! We'll happily install Google Tag Manager on your Castle Rock website and teach you how to use it.

Setup Conversion Tracking

It's important to setup conversion tracking for your Castle Rock website if you want to understand the benefits of online advertising. 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 Castle Rock website that's slow because of large images? Not 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

Is your website ready for live chat? If you'd like us to recommend the best live chat system for your Castle Rock business, install the tracking code, and customize the design for your branding, we can do it!

Resolve Errors in Log Files

Have you noticed large error_log files on your hosting account? We can help diagnose the issue and update programming code or repair platform issues to prevent recurring error messages.

Reduce Spam with reCaptcha

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

Install a Caching Plugin

Interested in installing a caching plugin for your Castle Rock website, but don't know how to set it up? We can recommend caching plugins, or we can install and configure them for you!

Implement 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.

IP Address Restrictions

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.

Run Website & Database Backups

Would you like a backup of your Castle Rock website? Backups can be performed one-time, or scheduled at specific intervals, and stored locally or offsite.

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. Whenever you need help with creating and managing your development site, just let us know!

Create A/B Testing Rules

Are you a fan of making Castle Rock web design changes based on statistical data? A/B testing can help you decide between two or more design layouts based on the data collected.

Setup 301 Redirects

Do you have a new website or are you removing pages? Make sure your Castle Rock website has 301 redirects to prevent or at least minimize 404 errors. Businesses in and around Castle Rock have lost a lot of organic traffic because of broken pages. It is a very common mistake when launching new websites, removing content pages, or disabling product pages. 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

Want to learn how to make simple edits to your Castle Rock website? We'll be happy to help if your Castle Rock site was built on a platform we work with, such as WordPress or Shopify.

The Platforms We Maintain for Castle Rock, CO Websites

For Castle Rock businesses, we have a team of web designers and web developers who have experience with multiple platforms. Having said that, it's better to master a few platforms than try to specialize in them all. Therefore, we tend to only maintain Castle Rock websites on these platforms:

• Castle Rock WordPress Web Maintenance
• Castle Rock WooCommerce Website Maintenance
• Castle Rock Shopify Web Support

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

Questions to Ask Castle Rock, CO Web Maintenance Agencies

If you're thinking about signing up for any Castle Rock website maintenance package, make sure you ask the company how their services work. It'll give you a better idea of the experience you'll have with their premium Colorado website support services prior to making payment and providing website access. Here are some simple questions to ask:

• Can you tell me how you handle website security? Do you run website security scans for clients?
• What is the turnaround time for Castle Rock web maintenance requests?
• Are you outsourcing your Castle Rock website maintenance services?
• How much might it cost to maintain an average Castle Rock website?
• Are there minimum deductions or minimum billable expenses for Castle Rock website updates?
• What are your normal hours of operation?
• Will you keep me informed about new updates within my platform?

If you ask these questions to a Castle Rock 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.

Castle Rock, CO Website Support Plans and Tips

Larger companies in and around Castle Rock often ask us for a web maintenance plan. We can help your Castle Rock business set up a web maintenance plan so all aspects of your website, hosting, and domain name are monitored regularly.

Check out this list of annual Castle Rock website maintenance tasks to review:

• Message your web hosting firm 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.
• Restore a website backup to make sure the data is enough for full recovery. Also, make sure your backups are stored remotely.
• Take a look at the websites of your competitors (even those outside Castle Rock) to see if you're missing out on anything.
• Take a look at your website's security to make sure nothing's been compromised.
• Verify structured data, open graph, and social links are all working properly.
• 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.

Read through this list of semi-annual Castle Rock 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 your website backup schedule is working and you have remote backups.
• Make sure you're running an image optimization service.
• Make sure the website doesn't throw any console errors.

Here are a list of monthly Castle Rock website support tasks to review:

• Look for broken links on your website, which hurts SEO and user experience.
• Make sure your website isn't having performance issues after recent updates.
• See if there are any coverage issues in Google Search Console.
• Provide some kind of update to your content to keep your website fresh.
• Check if there are available platform or extension updates.

The Cost of Web Maintenance Service in Castle Rock, CO

The starting price for our Castle Rock 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 Castle Rock 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 Castle Rock, 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 Castle Rock 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 Castle Rock 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 Castle Rock to charge a much higher hourly rate, but not bill out for communication and organization. Likewise, there are website support companies in Castle Rock 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 Castle Rock 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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