Highlands Ranch Website Maintenance Services

What is Involved in Maintaining Highlands Ranch, CO Websites

We view web maintenance to be a reactive support service that provides your Highlands Ranch business with the appropriate web developer resources to solve nearly any website problem. There are many examples of website issues that might require service from Highlands Ranch website maintenance agencies, including:

• 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.
• Staying fresh with new blog content.
• Rearranging your Highlands Ranch site's navigation menu.
• Improve your page speed to pass Google Core Web Vitals.
• Backing up your website's files and databases.
• Changing the look and feel of your website.
• Fixing Google Search Console coverage issues.
• Adding structured data, open graph tags, etc.
• Providing solutions to other website problems.

The previously mentioned services are just a glimpse of what we view as possible Highlands Ranch website support services. In fact, Highlands Ranch web maintenance is basically anything a web developer or digital marketer does to your website.

Reactive Highlands Ranch Website Support

Most Highlands Ranch 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. Our company will be your web support team on standby for any questions you have. However, we can provide some proactive web support services for your Highlands Ranch website.

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Proactive Highlands Ranch Website Support

For website owners in Highlands Ranch interested in a proactive management service for some of their website upkeep requirements, we are happy to accommodate! As part of our proactive website management service, our team can take care of platform upgrades, app / extension updates, website backups, performance monitoring, and broken link monitoring.

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

Who Needs Website Maintenance in Highlands Ranch, CO

At some point in time, every Highlands Ranch website will require some form of web support. The reason is simply that the internet is always changing. But don't worry, our Highlands Ranch website support costs aren't too high, so you can afford it! There are a few reasons why a website in Highlands Ranch might need maintenance:

• When a hosting company upgrades their servers, they may remove older versions of PHP that your Highlands Ranch 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. 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. Magento 1.x store owners recently had to migrate to Magento 2.x or an alternative ecommerce platform because Magento 1.x had reached "End of Life" status and wouldn't be maintained or updated. As a result, Magento 1.x ecommerce businesses in Highlands Ranch were looking for ecommerce developers to help migrate their websites.
• An owner of a Highlands Ranch 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. In most cases, this happens because the website owner didn't pay attention to the first two web maintenance examples.
• You need to refresh your Highlands Ranch website content when it's outdated or doesn't explain your organization, products, or services well enough for future visitors. This type of web maintenance is critical to ensuring your Highlands Ranch website is benefiting 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 Highlands Ranch business's potential future needs.

How We Perform Highlands Ranch, CO Website Maintenance

We have an experienced web support team who puts forth great effort to understand your maintenance needs, schedule your work in a timely fashion, and follow up with your Highlands Ranch business after the tasks have been completed.

Most website support services start with an email from you, the owner of the Highlands Ranch website. 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 Highlands Ranch web maintenance 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 Maintenance Service List for Highlands Ranch, CO Businesses

We are often asked for detailed examples of Highlands Ranch web support requests that might come up after the launch of a website. Here are several examples of Highlands Ranch website support services we've been asked to perform in the past and would be more than happy to provide to you!

Simple Highlands Ranch Website Tweaks

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

Highlands Ranch Site Performance Improvements

Let us check your Highlands Ranch 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 Updates / Security Fixes

It's important to keep your Highlands Ranch 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 Upgrades

It's important to update your Highlands Ranch website's plugins and extensions to reflect 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.

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. By making Google happy, you'll boost your search engine rankings throughout Highlands Ranch and beyond!

Add Structured Data

Have you ever noticed information like reviews or product prices in the listing of a Google organic search result? 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 Highlands Ranch, and ecommerce product or some other common data type.

Implement Open Graph on Your Website

By adding Open Graph Tags to your website, digital platforms can better understand the content of your page, which improves its appearance on social media.

Setup Google Tag Manager

Would you like to manage custom scripts more easily with Google Tag Manager? No problem at all! We can add Google Tag Manager to your Highlands Ranch website and even teach you how to use it.

Add Conversion Tracking

Tracking conversions is important if you want to understand the benefits of online advertising for your Highlands Ranch website. Then you'll know where your conversions come from, whether it be direct traffic, organic search, or paid ads.

Image Optimization

Is your Highlands Ranch website slow because of large images? No problem at all! All your images can be compressed by our tools, and we can even setup recurring compression for newly added images!

Integrate a Live Chat

Is your website ready for live chat? Our experts can help you pick the right live chat system, install the tracking code, and customize the design to match your Highlands Ranch business branding!

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.

Setup reCaptcha on Forms

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

Setup a Caching Plugin

Interested in installing a caching plugin for your Highlands Ranch 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!

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 Malicious IP Addresses

Is your Highlands Ranch website getting fake orders, contact submissions, or live chats? If you want to protect your website from malicious traffic, we can help by implementing IP restrictions.

Run Website & Database Backups

Do you want to create a backup of your Highlands Ranch website? Let us help you create one-time or scheduled backups that you can store locally or offsite.

Create a Testing Website

When you're doing a major upgrade or extension installation, you should set up a development or staging site first. Just let us know if you need help creating and managing that development / staging site!

Setup A/B Testing

Do you prefer to make design changes based on statistical data regarding how users interact with your Highlands Ranch 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.

Setup 301 Redirects

Have you launched a new website or removed pages? You should create 301 redirects for your Highlands Ranch website. Businesses in and around Highlands Ranch 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.

Train You on Your Website

Need help learning how to make simple changes to your Highlands Ranch website? We'll be happy to help if your Highlands Ranch site was built on a platform we work with, such as WordPress or Shopify.

The Platforms We Maintain for Highlands Ranch, CO Websites

We have a diverse team of web designers and web developers, for Highlands Ranch businesses, who have been immersed in multiple website platforms over the years. That said, it is better to become a master of a handful of platforms rather than try to specialize in them all. Therefore, we tend to only maintain Highlands Ranch websites on these platforms:

• Highlands Ranch WordPress Web Maintenance
• Highlands Ranch WooCommerce Website Maintenance
• Highlands Ranch Shopify Web Support

We've managed Joomla and Magento platforms for Highlands Ranch businesses in the past. However, we chose not to use those platforms so our website support experts could focus on training and support within the more popular platforms.

Questions to Ask Highlands Ranch, CO Web Maintenance Firms

Before signing up for any Highlands Ranch web support package, it is important to ask the Highlands Ranch website support company some questions about how their services work. This will help you get a better idea of the experience you will have with their premium Colorado web maintenance services before you submit payment and provide 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 Highlands Ranch website maintenance requests?
• Is your Highlands Ranch web support outsourced?
• How much might it cost to maintain an average Highlands Ranch website?
• Are there minimum deductions or minimum billable expenses for Highlands Ranch website updates?
• Can you tell me what your normal business hours are?
• When there are new updates on my platform, will you let me know?

If you ask any Highlands Ranch website services agency these questions before subscribing to their web 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.

Highlands Ranch, CO Website Maintenance Plans and Tips

We are often asked for a web support plan by larger companies in and around Highlands Ranch looking to establish routines and procedures within their IT department. We are happy to help your Highlands Ranch business develop a website support plan to ensure all aspects of your website, hosting, and domain name are routinely checked to ensure optimum performance and uptime.

Check out this list of annual Highlands Ranch web 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.
• 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 Highlands Ranch.
• Take a look at the websites of your competitors (even those outside Highlands Ranch) to see if you're missing out on anything.
• Take a look at your website's security to make sure nothing's been compromised.
• Make sure structured data, open graph, and social links are 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.

Check out this list of semi-annual Highlands Ranch web maintenance 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.
• Ensure you have access to your hosting account and that it isn't expiring soon.
• Make sure you have access to your DNS.
• Find out if your SSL certificate will expire soon.
• Make sure you have remote backups outside Highlands Ranch and that your website backup schedule is working.
• Make sure you're running an image optimization service.
• See if there are any console errors on the website.

Here are a list of monthly Highlands Ranch website maintenance tasks to review:

• Check for broken links on your website, which negatively impact user experience and SEO.
• Check your website for performance issues after recent updates or changes.
• See if there's anything wrong being reported within Google Search Console.
• Provide some kind of update to your content to keep your website fresh.
• See if there are any updates for your website platform or extensions.

The Cost of Web Support Service in Highlands Ranch, CO

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