Colorado Website Maintenance Services

What is Involved in Maintaining Colorado Springs, CO Websites

Web maintenance is a reactive support service that connects you with the right web developer to fix nearly any website issue. There are many examples of website issues that might require service from Colorado Springs website maintenance agencies, including:

• Upgrading your website platform to the latest version.
• Installing app or plugin updates to improve security and functionality.
• Adding new web pages as you release new products or services.
• Staying fresh with new blog content.
• Rearranging your Colorado Springs website's navigation menu.
• Improving page speed to help you pass Google Core Web Vitals.
• Take backups of your website's files and databases.
• Changing the look and feel of your website.
• Fixing Google Search Console coverage issues.
• Improving technical SEO by adding structured data, open graph tags, etc.
• Investigating the cause and providing a solution to any other website issue.

Those services are just a taste of what Colorado Springs website support might look like. Basically, Colorado Springs web maintenance is anything a web developer or internet marketer does to change your website.

Reactive Colorado Springs Website Support

Most Colorado Springs 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 Colorado Springs website running smoothly. However, we can provide some proactive web support services for your Colorado Springs website.

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Proactive Colorado Springs Website Support

Interested in a proactive website management service for some of your website upkeep? We're happy to help! 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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Who Needs Web Support in Colorado Springs, CO

Every Colorado Springs website will need some website support at some point. The reason is simply that the internet is always changing. Not to worry though, our Colorado Springs web maintenance cost isn't expensive so it should be affordable for you to maintain your website! Here are some common reasons why a website in Colorado Springs might require web maintenance services:

• When a hosting company upgrades their servers, they may remove older versions of PHP that your Colorado Springs 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 from the past to work forever.
• 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. Magento 1.x store owners recently had to migrate to Magento 2.x, or an alternative ecommerce platform, because Magento 1.x was no longer maintained by Magento after it reached "End of Life". As a result, Magento 1.x ecommerce businesses in Colorado Springs were looking for ecommerce developers to help migrate their websites.
• An owner of a Colorado Springs website who has been infected by malware or some other kind of malicious activity needs to check the site for exploits and clean it up. This can be a time-consuming activity, and often happens because the website owner wasn't being mindful of the first two website maintenance examples, listed above.
• When the content on your Colorado Springs 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. Keeping your Colorado Springs website up to date is key to its success.

There are many reasons why a website might need maintenance, other than just to update something. When planning budgets and schedules for web support and support, consider your Colorado Springs business's potential future needs.

How We Perform Colorado Springs, CO Website Support

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

Most website maintenance services start with an email from you, the owner of the Colorado Springs 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.

For requests that originate from phone or live chat, a similar process to handling your Colorado Springs web support services unfolds. 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 Website Support Service List for Colorado Springs, CO Businesses

We're often asked for examples of Colorado Springs web maintenance requests after a website launches. Here are several examples of Colorado Springs web maintenance services we've been asked to perform in the past and would be more than happy to provide to you!

Simple Colorado Springs Website Changes

A simple change to your Colorado Springs website might include updating a paragraph on a page, swapping out an image, or adding a new page. These are just normal, routine website maintenance tasks to keep content fresh for both search engines and visitors.

Colorado Springs Site Performance Improvements

We can analyze your Colorado Springs website for hosting issues, caching issues, unoptimized images, console errors, broken links, poor queries, and more if it's slow. This will help improve page load times, which are beneficial to user experience and search engine optimization.

Platform Upgrades / Security Updates

It's important to keep your Colorado Springs website updated if it runs on a CMS like WordPress. The updates improve security and functionality - sometimes they're quick, so it's an easy win!

Plugin / Extension Updates

If your Colorado Springs 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. The idea is similar to updating the CMS platform since it fixes security and functionality problems.

Google Search Console 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 Colorado Springs and beyond!

Add Structured Data

Do you ever see product prices or reviews in Google organic search results? This is structured data, which is a standardized way of describing content on the web, whether it's a local business in Colorado Springs 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 media platforms when people share links of your Colorado Springs business.

Setup 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 can add Google Tag Manager to your Colorado Springs website and even teach you how to use it.

Implement Conversion Tracking

Tracking conversions is important if you want to understand the benefits of online advertising for your Colorado Springs website. It'll help you understand where your conversions come from, like direct traffic, referral links, organic search, or paid ads.

Image Optimization

Are large images slowing down your Colorado Springs website? No problem at all! All your images can be compressed by our tools, and we can even setup recurring compression for newly added images!

Add Live Chat

Would you like to try live chat? If you'd like us to recommend the best live chat system for your Colorado Springs business, install the tracking code, and customize the design for your branding, we can do it!

Review Error Logs for Issues

Do you have a lot of error_log files on your hosting account? If you're getting recurring error messages, we can update programming code or fix platform issues.

Setup reCaptcha on Forms

If spambots are attacking your Colorado Springs website, we can setup a checkbox or invisible reCaptcha to help minimize unwanted submissions on your forms.

Setup a Caching Plugin

Are you interested in installing a caching plugin in your Colorado Springs website, but not sure how to properly configure the settings for best website performance? We can help recommend caching plugins, or just 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.

Restrict IP Addresses

Have you been getting fake orders, contact submissions, or live chats from a particular network? Our team can help set up IP restrictions so your website doesn't get hit with as much malicious traffic.

Backup Your Website Files

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

Create a Testing Website

Before you do a major update or extension installation, it's a good idea to setup a development or staging site. 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 Colorado Springs 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? You should create 301 redirects for your Colorado Springs website. We've seen businesses in and around Colorado Springs 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 Colorado Springs website? Let us know what training you need if your Colorado Springs site was built on a platform we work with, like WordPress or Shopify!

The Platforms We Maintain for Colorado Springs, CO Websites

For Colorado Springs businesses, we have a team of web designers and web developers who have experience with 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 Colorado Springs websites tends to service only the following platforms:

• Colorado Springs WordPress Web Maintenance
• Colorado Springs WooCommerce Website Maintenance
• Colorado Springs Shopify Web Support

As a website support firm, we used to maintain and support Joomla and Magento websites for Colorado Springs-area businesses. However, we chose not to use those platforms so our web maintenance experts could focus on training and support within the more popular platforms.

Questions to Ask Colorado Springs, CO Website Maintenance Firms

If you're thinking about signing up for any Colorado Springs website support package, make sure you ask the company how their services work. This will help you get a better idea of the experience you will have with their professional Colorado website maintenance services before you submit payment and provide website access. Let's go over some simple questions to ask:

• How do you handle website security? Do you run security scans of customer websites?
• What is the turnaround time for Colorado Springs web support requests?
• Is your Colorado Springs website support outsourced?
• How much does Colorado Springs web maintenance cost?
• Do you have minimum deductions or minimum billable expenses for Colorado Springs website updates?
• At what times of the day are you working and able to take our maintenance requests?
• When there are new updates on my platform, will you let me know?

If you ask any Colorado Springs website services agency 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.

Colorado Springs, CO Web Support Plans and Tips

Larger companies in and around Colorado Springs often ask us for a website support plan. We are happy to help your Colorado Springs 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 Colorado Springs website maintenance tasks to review:

• Ask your web hosting company if they have newer servers you can migrate to.
• Check if your website platform has a new major release that will require an extensive website migration.
• 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 Colorado Springs.
• Check out competitor sites (even those outside of Colorado Springs) to see if you're missing out on any competitive advantages they have over you.
• 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.
• Remove any unnecessary 3rd party tracking, live chat, or heat map scripts that may have been installed in the past.
• Delete any development or staging websites you don't need.

Here is a list of semi-annual Colorado Springs web support tasks to consider:

• 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 your hosting account credentials and make sure it's not about to expire.
• 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 you have remote backups outside Colorado Springs and that your website backup schedule is working.
• If you have an automated image optimization service, verify it is working properly.
• See if there are any console errors on the website.

Check out this list of monthly Colorado Springs website support tasks to consider:

• Ensure your website doesn't have any broken links, which affect 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.
• 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 Colorado Springs, CO

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