Brookhaven Website Maintenance Services

What is Involved in Maintaining Brookhaven, GA Websites

We view web maintenance to be a reactive support service that provides your Brookhaven 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 Brookhaven web maintenance companies, 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 information.
• Freshen up your blog with new content.
• Rearranging your Brookhaven website's navigation menu.
• Improve your page speed to pass Google Core Web Vitals.
• Take backups of your website's files and databases.
• Changing the look and feel of your website.
• 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 Brookhaven web support might look like. In fact, Brookhaven website support is really anything a web developer or digital marketer does to your website to change it in some manner.

Reactive Brookhaven Website Support

The reason we consider web maintenance to be a reactive service is that most Brookhaven website owners wouldn't want a web developer going into their website and changing things around without their knowledge. When you choose to have our firm maintain your Brookhaven website, we'll be your web support team on standby for any request. However, we can offer some proactive Brookhaven web support services.

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Proactive Brookhaven Website Support

Interested in a proactive website management service for some of your website upkeep? We're happy to help! 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 Brookhaven-area websites, our website support firm also offers Albany, Alpharetta, Athens, Atlanta, Augusta, Columbus, Macon, Marietta, Roswell, Savannah, and Valdosta small businesses and large corporations help with their websites.

Who Needs Web Maintenance in Brookhaven, GA

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

• When a hosting provider upgrades their servers, they may remove older versions of PHP that your Brookhaven website was originally developed to support. That means you'll have to refactor your app or upgrade to a newer framework that supports the latest PHP release. You can't expect custom web functionality from the past 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 was no longer maintained by Magento after it reached "End of Life". As a result, Magento 1.x ecommerce businesses in Brookhaven were looking for ecommerce developers to help migrate their websites.
• 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 maintenance examples.
• You need to refresh your Brookhaven website content when it's outdated or doesn't explain your organization, products, or services well enough for future visitors. Keeping your Brookhaven website up to date is key to its success.

As you can see, there are many reasons a website may require maintenance above and beyond the obvious reasons of just wanting to update something on the website. It is important to understand the future needs of your Brookhaven business when planning budgets and schedules for website maintenance and support.

How We Perform Brookhaven, GA 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 Brookhaven business after the tasks have been completed.

Most website support services start with an email from you, the owner of the Brookhaven 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.

The process for Brookhaven web maintenance services that come from phone or chat is similar. A support request is entered into our ticket system by the person in the conversation with you, so the work order can be routed to the right web developer.

Example Web Maintenance Service List for Brookhaven, GA Businesses

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

Simple Brookhaven Website Changes

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

Brookhaven Website Speed Improvements

We can analyze your Brookhaven website for hosting issues, caching issues, unoptimized images, console errors, broken links, poor queries, and more if it's slow. It'll help improve page load times, which will make users and search engines happy.

Platform Upgrades / Security Updates

It's important to keep your Brookhaven website updated if it runs on a CMS like 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 Brookhaven 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.

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 issues, fix the problems, and update you on the results. This will help your search engine rankings, throughout Brookhaven 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 of describing content on the web, whether it's a local business in Brookhaven or an ecommerce product.

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.

Add 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 Brookhaven website and teach you how to use it.

Setup Conversion Tracking

If you are interested in understanding the benefit of an online advertising campaign for your Brookhaven website, it is important to setup conversion tracking. This will help you understand where your conversions are coming from, such as a Google search or a Bing Ads campaign.

Optimize Images

Are large images slowing down your Brookhaven website? 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? If you'd like us to recommend the best live chat system for your Brookhaven business, install the tracking code, and customize the design for your branding, we can do it!

Review Error Logs for Issues

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 Brookhaven website, we can setup an invisible or checkbox reCaptcha.

Setup a Caching Plugin

Are you interested in installing a caching plugin in your Brookhaven 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!

Setup SMTP Email

If you want to improve email deliverability, we can set up your contact form and website platform to send emails via SMTP instead of PHP mail.

Restrict Malicious IP Addresses

Is your Brookhaven 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

Would you like a backup of your Brookhaven 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!

Implement A/B Testing

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

Have you launched a new website or removed pages? You will want to create 301 redirects for your Brookhaven website to prevent broken pages from hurting your SEO. Businesses in and around Brookhaven 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 can help you set up 301 redirects in .htaccess files, nginx templates, and CMS platforms.

Offer Website Training

Want to learn how to make simple edits to your Brookhaven website? We'll be happy to help if your Brookhaven site was built on a platform we work with, such as WordPress or Shopify.

The Platforms We Maintain for Brookhaven, GA Websites

We have a diverse team of web designers and web developers, for Brookhaven 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. For that reason, our web maintenance firm for Brookhaven websites tends to service only the following platforms:

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

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

Questions to Ask Brookhaven, GA Website Support Companies

Before signing up for any Brookhaven website maintenance package, it is important to ask the Brookhaven web 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 professional Georgia web 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?
• When can I expect an average Brookhaven web maintenance request to be completed?
• Are you outsourcing your Brookhaven website maintenance services?
• How much does Brookhaven web support cost?
• Are there minimum deductions or minimum billable expenses for Brookhaven 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 these questions to a Brookhaven 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.

Brookhaven, GA Web Maintenance Plans and Tips

We are often asked for a website maintenance plan by larger companies in and around Brookhaven looking to establish routines and procedures within their IT department. We are happy to help your Brookhaven business develop a web support 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 Brookhaven website support tasks to review:

• Ask your web hosting company if they have newer servers you can migrate to.
• Check if your website platform is releasing a major upgrade in the near future which will require a major overhaul of your website.
• Restore a website backup to make sure the data is enough for full recovery. Also, make sure your backups are stored remotely.
• Check out competitor sites (even those outside of Brookhaven) to see if you're missing out on any competitive advantages they have over you.
• Take a look at your website's security to make sure nothing's been compromised.
• 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.
• Take down any unnecessary development or staging sites.

Read through this list of semi-annual Brookhaven 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.
• Check your hosting account credentials and make sure it's not about to expire.
• 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 website backup schedule is working properly, and you have remote backups outside of Brookhaven.
• 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 Brookhaven web maintenance tasks to review:

• Ensure your website doesn't have any broken links, which affect 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.
• Update some of your service pages or blog articles to keep your website fresh.
• Take a look at your website platform and extensions for any available updates.

The Cost of Website Maintenance Service in Brookhaven, GA

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