Milford Website Maintenance Services

Our Milford, CT Website Maintenance Services

We see website maintenance as a reactive support service where we provide your Milford small business with the right website developer resources to fix just about any problem. There are many examples of website concerns that might require service from Milford web 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.
• Writing new blog content to help you stay fresh.
• Rearranging your Milford website's navigation menu.
• Making your page faster to pass Google Core Web Vitals.
• Take backups of your website's files and databases.
• Making your site look and feel better.
• Fixing website scan issues or Google Search Console coverage problems.
• Enhancing technical search engine optimization with structured data, open graph tags, etc.
• Investigating the cause and providing a solution to any other website issue.

The previously mentioned services are just a glimpse of what we view as possible Milford web maintenance services. In fact, Milford website maintenance is really anything a web developer or internet advertiser does to your website to change it in some manner.

In addition to supporting Milford-area websites, our website maintenance agency also offers Bridgeport, Bristol, Fairfield, Greenwich, Hartford, Manchester, New Haven, Norwalk, and Stamford small businesses and large corporations help with their websites.

Pricing for Milford, CT Website Maintenance

We charge a base rate of $119.50 per hour for our web maintenance services, though pre-purchasing blocks of time can lower the rate to as little as $99.95 per hour.

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

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, working on the request, providing feedback, and logging the task usually takes at least 10 minutes of time.

To keep you informed of the time usage on your pre-purchased web maintenance retainer, you'll receive a monthly update letting you know how much time remains on your account.

Our Milford, CT Website Management Packages

Have you grown weary of being notified about updates that are available? Worried about website downtime? Let our web development team take care of both worries through proactive website management!

Here is a list of what is included in our website management plans:

1.) Proactive Website Upgrades

We have an in-house team of website experts ready to perform platform updates, template updates, and plugin/extension updates on a quarterly or monthly schedule for WordPress or WooCommerce websites!

1. File & Database Backup: Our process begins by creating backups of both your site files and database.
2. Update: We then manually upgrade your website by installing any available updates.
3. Test: Our next step involves testing your website for any potential problems following the installation of upgrades.
4. Finish Up: Your website will be better protected against security threats and malware if the updates are successful. In the event the upgrades are unsuccessful, we'll work together to determine the best course of action.

2.) Remote Website Backups

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

3.) Website Uptime Monitoring

We monitor your website for service outages within our uptime monitoring system.

If your website goes down, an alert will be sent to our website developers to allow us to investigate the issue.

Pricing for Milford, CT Website Management

We offer website management plans in both monthly and quarterly durations for your convenience. This allows you to choose how often our team processes remote backups and installs available website updates.

The Platforms We Maintain for Milford, CT Websites

With years of experience developing websites for Milford organizations (and those in other areas of the country), our web designers and web developers have been immersed in 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 maintenance company for Milford websites tends to service only the following platforms:

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

We've managed Joomla and Magento platforms for Milford companies in the past. However, we chose not to use those platforms so our web support specialists could focus on training and support within the more popular platforms.

Example Web Maintenance Service List for Milford, CT Businesses

After the launch of a website, we're often asked for detailed examples of Milford website maintenance requests. Here are several examples of Milford web support services we've been asked to perform in the past and would be more than happy to provide to you!

Basic Milford Website Edits

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

Milford Page Speed Improvements

We can analyze your Milford website for hosting concerns, caching glitches, unoptimized images, console errors, broken links, poor queries, and more if it's slow. User experience and search engine optimization will both benefit from better page load times.

Platform Updates / Security Upgrades

Keeping your Milford website's content management system updated is important if it's running on WordPress. This helps improve security and functionality - sometimes the updates are relatively quick to perform, which is a win-win!

Extension / Plugin Updates

If your Milford website has functionality developed and maintained by a third-party, it is important to upgrade those plugins and extensions to include the latest changes by the developers. This is similar to the idea of updating the CMS platform since it helps patch security and functionality glitches.

Google Search Console Fixes

Did you get a report from Google Search Console telling you about a coverage issue? If so, we can review the coverage errors, fix the issues, and update you on the results. By making Google happy, you'll boost your search engine placements throughout Milford and beyond!

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 of describing content on the web, whether it's a local business in Milford or an ecommerce product.

Add Open Graph Tags 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

Are you interested in adding Google Tag Manager to your website to help you manage custom scripts more easily? Not a problem! We can add Google Tag Manager to your Milford website and even give you a crash course in using Google Tag Manager.

Implement Conversion Tracking

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

Image Compression (Optimization)

Do you have a Milford website that's 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!

Setup Live Chat

Do you want to try live chat on your website? 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 Milford business!

Review Error Log Files

Have you noticed large error_log files on your hosting account? If you're getting recurring error messages, we can update programming code or fix platform issues.

Reduce Spam with reCaptcha

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

Implement a Caching Plugin

Are you interested in installing a caching plugin in your Milford website, but not sure how to properly configure the settings for best page speed? We can help you figure out which caching plugins to install and configure on your website!

Setup SMTP Email

To help improve email deliverability, we can configure your contact form and website platform to send emails through an SMTP account instead of PHP mail.

Restrict IP Addresses

Is your Milford website being bombarded with fake orders, contact submissions or live chats from a specific network? We can help setup IP restrictions to prevent malicious traffic from interacting with your website.

Backup Your Website Files

Would you like a backup of your Milford website? Let us help you create one-time or scheduled backups that you can store locally or offsite.

Create a Staging Website

It is often recommended that you setup a development or staging website before proceeding with a major update or extension installation. If you'd like help creating and managing that development / staging site, just let us know!

Implement A/B Testing

Do you prefer to make design modifications based on statistical data regarding how users interact with your Milford 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.

Create 301 Redirects

Are you launching a new website or removing pages from your website? You should create 301 redirects for your Milford website. We've seen businesses in and around Milford 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 Milford website? If your Milford website was developed in a platform we work within, such as WordPress or WordPress, we'll be happy to help!

Questions to Ask Milford, CT Website Maintenance Firms

Ask the Milford website support company some questions about their services before you sign up for a package. This will help you get a better idea of the experience you will have with their premium Connecticut web support plans 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 Milford website support requests?
• Do you outsource your Milford web maintenance services?
• How much does Milford website maintenance cost?
• Are there any minimum deductions or minimum billable expenses for Milford website updates?
• At what times of the day are you working and able to take our maintenance requests?
• How will I know about new upgrades to my platform?

We find it beneficial to run these questions by any Milford website services agency before subscribing to their website maintenance packages, since it will provide much better understanding for you regarding the future relationship, the security of your website, and the expected turnaround time for important maintenance requests.

Milford, CT Website Support Plans and Tips

Companies in and around Milford often ask us for a website maintenance plan to establish routines and procedures. We are happy to help your Milford 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.

Annual Milford web maintenance work

• Ask your web hosting agency 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.
• 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 Milford.
• Check out competitor sites (even those outside of Milford) to see if you're missing out on any competitive advantages they have over you.
• Ensure your website is secure by performing a full security review.
• Ensure that structured data, open graph, and social links are all working.
• Check if any 3rd party tracking, live chat, or heat map scripts are installed but no longer necessary.
• Remove any unnecessary development or staging websites.

Semi-annual Milford web maintenance work

• Ensure you have access to your domain name and that it isn't expiring soon. This will be helpful when you must process a domain name renewal.
• Ensure you have access to your hosting account and that it isn't expiring soon.
• Ensure you have access to your DNS in case you need to change anything.
• Check if your SSL certificate will be expiring in the near future.
• Verify your site backup schedule is working properly, and you have remote backups outside of Milford.
• Make sure you're running an image optimization service.
• Make sure the website doesn't throw any console errors.

Monthly Milford website maintenance tasks

• Ensure your website doesn't have any broken links, which affect UX and SEO.
• Check for website speed concerns from recent upgrades or changes on the website.
• 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.
• Check if there are available platform or extension updates.

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