Alpharetta Website Maintenance Services

What is Involved in Maintaining Alpharetta, GA Websites

We see web maintenance as a reactive support service where we provide your Alpharetta business with the right web developer resources to fix just about any problem. There are many examples of website issues that might require service from Alpharetta web maintenance companies, including:

• Making sure your website's platform is up to date.
• Keeping apps and plugins updated for better security and functionality.
• Adding new pages whenever you release something new.
• Writing new blog content to help you stay fresh.
• Rearranging your Alpharetta site's navigation menu.
• Making your page faster to pass Google Core Web Vitals.
• Take backups of your website's files and databases.
• Making your website look and feel better.
• Troubleshooting Google Search Console coverage issues.
• Enhancing technical SEO with structured data, open graph tags, etc.
• Providing solutions to other website problems.

Those services are just a taste of what Alpharetta web support might look like. In fact, Alpharetta website support is basically anything a web developer or digital marketer does to your website.

Reactive Alpharetta Website Support

We consider web maintenance a reactive service because most Alpharetta website owners don't want a developer messing with their website without their permission. You can count on our firm to keep your Alpharetta website running smoothly. However, we can provide some proactive web support services for your Alpharetta website.

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Proactive Alpharetta Website Support

We're happy to help website owners in Alpharetta 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 Alpharetta-area websites, our website support firm also offers Albany, Athens, Atlanta, Augusta, Brookhaven, Columbus, Macon, Marietta, Roswell, Savannah, and Valdosta small businesses and large corporations help with their websites.

Who Needs Web Maintenance in Alpharetta, GA

There will come a time when every Alpharetta website needs some sort of maintenance. The reason is simply that the internet is always changing. But don't worry, our Alpharetta website maintenance costs aren't too high, so you can afford it! There are a few reasons why a website in Alpharetta might need maintenance:

• Hosting companies sometimes upgrade their servers, removing PHP versions that were used by your Alpharetta 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". Because of that, Magento 1.x ecommerce businesses in Alpharetta were suddenly looking for an ecommerce developer to help migrate their website to a supported platform.
• 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 web support examples.
• You need to refresh your Alpharetta website content when it's outdated or doesn't explain your organization, products, or services well enough for future visitors. Keeping your Alpharetta website up to date is key to its success.

Above and beyond just updating something, there are plenty of reasons why a website might need maintenance. It is important to understand the future needs of your Alpharetta business when planning budgets and schedules for website maintenance and support.

How We Perform Alpharetta, GA Website Support

It's our job to understand your web maintenance needs, schedule your work in a timely fashion, and follow up with your Alpharetta business after the work is done.

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

Phone or live chat requests follow a similar process to Alpharetta 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 Alpharetta, GA Businesses

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

Simple Alpharetta Website Tweaks

Changes to your Alpharetta website could be as simple as updating a paragraph, swapping images, or adding a new page. Keeping content fresh for search engines and visitors is just normal, routine website maintenance.

Alpharetta Page Speed Improvements

Let us check your Alpharetta 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

Keeping your Alpharetta website's content management system updated is important if it's running on WordPress. 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 Alpharetta website's plugins and extensions to reflect the latest changes by the developers. The idea is similar to updating the CMS platform since it fixes security and functionality problems.

Fixing Search Console Issues

Did you get a report from Google Search Console telling you about a coverage issue? If so, we can fix the coverage issues, and let you know how it went. Make Google happy, and you'll rank higher throughout Alpharetta 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 structured data, which is a standardized way to describe the content on a webpage, whether it's a local Alpharetta business, or an ecommerce product.

Add Open Graph to 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.

Implement Google Tag Manager

Interested in using Google Tag Manager for managing custom scripts? No problem at all! We'll happily install Google Tag Manager on your Alpharetta website and teach you how to use it.

Setup Conversion Tracking

Tracking conversions is important if you want to understand the benefits of online advertising for your Alpharetta website. This will help you understand where your conversions are coming from, such as a Google search or a Bing Ads campaign.

Image Optimization

Is your Alpharetta website slow because of large images? Not a problem! We can run all your images through our image compression tools and even setup recurring image compression for newly added images in the future!

Integrate a Live Chat

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

Resolve Errors in Log Files

Are your error_log files big? To stop recurring error messages, we can diagnose the problem and update programming code.

Reduce Spam with reCaptcha

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

Install a Caching Plugin

Are you interested in installing a caching plugin in your Alpharetta website, but not sure how to properly configure the settings for best website performance? We can recommend caching plugins, or we can install and configure them for you!

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.

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.

Run Website & Database Backups

Is it time to make a backup of your Alpharetta 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. Whenever you need help with creating and managing your development site, just let us know!

Create A/B Testing Rules

Do you prefer to make design changes based on statistical data regarding how users interact with your Alpharetta web page? A/B testing can help you decide between two or more design layouts based on the data collected.

Add 301 Redirects

Do you have a new website or are you removing pages? You should create 301 redirects for your Alpharetta website. Having broken pages will cost your Alpharetta business a lot of organic traffic if they aren't fixed with 301 redirects. We are happy to help you resolve broken pages through the creation of 301 redirects within .htaccess files, nginx templates, and CMS plugins.

Offer Website Training

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

The Platforms We Maintain for Alpharetta, GA Websites

With years of experience developing websites for Alpharetta businesses (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. Therefore, we tend to only maintain Alpharetta websites on these platforms:

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

As a website maintenance agency, we used to maintain and support Joomla and Magento websites for Alpharetta-area businesses. The reason we moved away from those platforms was to let our website support experts focus more on training and support.

Questions to Ask Alpharetta, GA Web Maintenance Agencies

Ask the Alpharetta website maintenance 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 Georgia website support 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's the turnaround time for Alpharetta web maintenance?
• Do you outsource your Alpharetta website maintenance services?
• How much might it cost to maintain an average Alpharetta website?
• Are there any minimum deductions or minimum billable expenses for Alpharetta website updates?
• At what times of the day are you working and able to take our maintenance requests?
• How will I know about new updates to my platform?

If you ask these questions to a Alpharetta 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.

Alpharetta, GA Website Support Plans and Tips

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

Check out this list of annual Alpharetta 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.
• 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 Alpharetta.
• Take a look at the websites of your competitors (even those outside Alpharetta) 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.
• Check if any 3rd party tracking, live chat, or heat map scripts are installed but no longer necessary.
• Take down any unnecessary development or staging sites.

Read through this list of semi-annual Alpharetta 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 your hosting account credentials and make sure it's not about to expire.
• Make sure you have access to your DNS.
• Check if your SSL certificate will be expiring in the near future.
• Make sure your website backup schedule is working and you have remote backups.
• If you have an automated image optimization service, verify it is working properly.
• See if there are any console errors on the website.

Here are a list of monthly Alpharetta 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's anything wrong being reported within Google Search Console.
• Keep your website fresh by updating your content within one of your service pages or blog articles.
• Take a look at your website platform and extensions for any available updates.

The Cost of Web Maintenance Service in Alpharetta, GA

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