Longmont Website Maintenance Services

What is Involved in Maintaining Longmont, 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 Longmont web support companies, including:

• Updating your website platform.
• Updating apps and plugins to make them safer and more functional.
• Adding new pages whenever you release something new.
• Writing new blog content to help you stay fresh.
• Rearranging your Longmont site's navigation menu.
• Making your page faster to 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.
• Adding structured data, open graph tags, etc.
• Providing a solution to any other website problem.

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

Reactive Longmont Website Support

We consider website maintenance a reactive service because most Longmont website owners don't want a developer messing with their website without their permission. When you choose to have our firm maintain your Longmont website, we'll be your web support team on standby for any request. However, we can offer some proactive Longmont website support services.

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Proactive Longmont Website Support

We're happy to help website owners in Longmont 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 Longmont-area websites, our web maintenance firm also offers Arvada, Aurora, Boulder, Castle Rock, Centennial, Colorado Springs, Denver, Fort Collins, Grand Junction, Greeley, Highlands Ranch, Lakewood, Loveland, Montrose, Pueblo, Thornton, and Westminster small businesses and large corporations help with their websites.

Who Needs Web Support in Longmont, CO

Every Longmont website will need some website support at some point. The reason is simply that the internet is always changing. However, we don't charge a lot for Longmont web maintenance, so you'll be able to afford it! Website maintenance in Longmont might be needed for these reasons:

• Hosting companies sometimes upgrade their servers, removing PHP versions that were used by your Longmont website. When this happens, you need to refactor your application or upgrade to a newer framework that supports the newer PHP version. There's no way you can expect custom web functionality to work forever.
• Content management systems or ecommerce platforms eventually deprecate old versions so their teams can focus on the new ones. 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 Longmont were looking for ecommerce developers to help migrate their websites.
• An owner of a Longmont 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.
• To ensure future visitors to your Longmont website receive accurate information about your organization, products, or services, your Longmont website content needs to be refreshed. This type of website maintenance is critical to ensuring your Longmont website is benefiting you.

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 Longmont business's potential future needs.

How We Perform Longmont, 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 Longmont business after the work is done.

Most website maintenance services start with an email from you, the owner of the Longmont website. Your email gets routed to our ticket system and automatically gets assigned to your project manager. Anyone on our team can work on the ticket without delay, resulting in faster turnaround time.

Phone or live chat requests follow a similar process to Longmont web support. The support request is entered into our ticket system by the person in the conversation with you, which allows the work order to be routed to the most appropriate web developer on our team.

Example Website Support Service List for Longmont, CO Businesses

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

Simple Longmont Website Updates

Your Longmont website might need a paragraph updated, an image changed, or a new page added. Keeping content fresh for search engines and visitors is just normal, routine website maintenance.

Longmont Page Speed Improvements

Let us check your Longmont 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.

Platform Upgrades / Security Updates

It's important to keep your Longmont 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 plugins and extensions on your Longmont website if they were developed and maintained by a third-party. This is similar to the idea of updating the CMS platform since it helps patch security and functionality issues.

Fixing 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. This will help your search engine rankings, throughout Longmont and beyond, by making Google happy!

Implement Structured Data

When you search Google organically, have you noticed reviews or prices in the search results? This is structured data, which is a standardized way to describe the content on a webpage, whether it's a local Longmont business, or an ecommerce product.

Add Open Graph to Your Website

When people share links of your Longmont 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.

Implement Google Tag Manager

Would you like to manage custom scripts more easily with Google Tag Manager? Not a problem! We'll happily install Google Tag Manager on your Longmont website and teach you how to use it.

Add Conversion Tracking

It's important to setup conversion tracking for your Longmont website if you want to understand the benefits of online advertising. This will help you understand where your conversions are coming from, such as a Google search or a Bing Ads campaign.

Image Compression (Optimization)

Is your Longmont website 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!

Add Live Chat

Would you like to try live chat? Our experts can help you pick the right live chat system, install the tracking code, and customize the design to match your Longmont business branding!

Review Error Log Files

Are your error_log files big? 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 Longmont website, we can setup a checkbox or invisible reCaptcha to help minimize unwanted submissions on your forms.

Install a Caching Plugin

Looking to install a caching plugin on your Longmont website, but not sure how to configure it? We can help you figure out which caching plugins to install and configure on your website!

Send Website Emails Over SMTP

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

Is your Longmont website getting fake orders, contact submissions, or live chats? We can help setup IP restrictions to prevent malicious traffic from interacting with your website.

Run Website & Database Backups

Is it time to make a backup of your Longmont website? Backups can be performed one-time, or scheduled at specific intervals, and stored locally or offsite.

Create a Development Website

When you're doing a major upgrade or extension installation, you should set up a development or staging site first. 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 Longmont 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

Are you launching a new website or removing pages from your website? You should create 301 redirects for your Longmont website. We've seen businesses in and around Longmont 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

Do you need help learning how to make changes to your Longmont website? If your Longmont site was developed in a platform we work within, such as WordPress or Shopify, we'll be happy to help!

The Platforms We Maintain for Longmont, CO Websites

For Longmont 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. Because of that, we tend to service only these platforms for Longmont websites:

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

As a website maintenance agency, we used to maintain and support Joomla and Magento websites for Longmont-area businesses. 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 Longmont, CO Web Maintenance Agencies

If you're thinking about signing up for any Longmont website maintenance 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 premium Colorado website support services before you submit payment and provide website access. You can ask these simple questions:

• What kind of security do you have on your site? Do you scan client websites for security?
• What's the turnaround time for Longmont web maintenance?
• Do you outsource your Longmont website maintenance services?
• How much might it cost to maintain an average Longmont website?
• Are there any minimum deductions or minimum billable expenses for Longmont 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 Longmont website services agency these questions before subscribing to their website support 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.

Longmont, CO Web Maintenance Plans and Tips

Larger companies in and around Longmont often ask us for a web maintenance plan. We are happy to help your Longmont business develop a website maintenance plan to ensure all aspects of your website, hosting, and domain name are routinely checked to ensure optimum performance and uptime.

Read through this list of annual Longmont web support tasks to consider:

• Check if your web hosting provider has newer servers that your account can be migrated to.
• Ask your web developer if your website has a major platform release coming up that will require a lot of work to install.
• Attempt to restore a website backup to ensure the data being stored is sufficient for full recovery. Also make sure you are storing backups in a remote location away from Longmont.
• Take a look at the websites of your competitors (even those outside Longmont) to see if you're missing out on anything.
• Ensure your website is secure by performing a full security review.
• 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.

Check out this list of semi-annual Longmont website support tasks to review:

• Make sure you have access to your domain name and it's not about to expire. When you have to renew your domain name, this will come in handy.
• Ensure you have access to your hosting account and that it isn't expiring soon.
• Make sure you have access to your DNS.
• Make sure your SSL certificate isn't expiring soon.
• Make sure your website backup schedule is working and you have remote backups.
• Check if you have an automated image optimization service running.
• Make sure the website doesn't throw any console errors.

Read through this list of monthly Longmont web maintenance 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.
• Keep your website fresh by updating your content within one of your service pages or blog articles.
• See if there are any updates for your website platform or extensions.

The Cost of Website Maintenance Service in Longmont, CO

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