Coeur d'Alene, ID Website Maintenance Services

What is Involved in Maintaining Coeur d'Alene, ID 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 Coeur d'Alene website support companies, including:

• Updating your website platform.
• Installing app or plugin updates to improve security and functionality.
• Adding new web pages as you release new products or services.
• Freshen up your blog with new content.
• Rearranging your Coeur d'Alene website's navigation menu.
• Improving page speed to help you pass Google Core Web Vitals.
• Take backups of your website's files and databases.
• Modifying the look and feel of your website's design.
• 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 Coeur d'Alene website maintenance might look like. In fact, Coeur d'Alene web support is basically anything a web developer or digital marketer does to your website.

Reactive Coeur d'Alene Website Support

Most Coeur d'Alene website owners wouldn't want a web developer messing around with their site without their permission. That's why we consider website support a reactive service. Our firm will be your web support team on standby for any questions you have. There are some web maintenance services we can provide your Coeur d'Alene website in a proactive manner though.

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Proactive Coeur d'Alene Website Support

For website owners in Coeur d'Alene interested in a proactive management service for some of their website upkeep requirements, we are happy to accommodate! There are several website maintenance services, including platform upgrades, app / extension updates, website backups, performance monitoring, and broken link monitoring, that our website maintainers can handle in a proactive manner.

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In addition to supporting Coeur d'Alene-area websites, our web support agency also offers Boise, Idaho Falls, Meridian, Nampa, Pocatello, and Rexburg small businesses and large corporations help with their websites.

Who Needs Web Maintenance in Coeur d'Alene, ID

Every Coeur d'Alene website will need some website maintenance at some point. The reason is simply that the internet is always changing. However, we don't charge a lot for Coeur d'Alene web support, so you'll be able to afford it! Here are some common reasons why a website in Coeur d'Alene might require website support services:

• When a hosting company upgrades their servers, they may remove older versions of PHP that your Coeur d'Alene 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.
• When an ecommerce platform or a content management system releases new versions, they eventually must deprecate the old versions so their teams can focus on maintaining the newer technologies. 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". Coeur d'Alene-area ecommerce businesses running Magento 1.x found themselves looking for an ecommerce developer to help migrate their store.
• 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 Coeur d'Alene website content when it's outdated or doesn't explain your organization, products, or services well enough for future visitors. Keeping your Coeur d'Alene 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. When planning budgets and schedules for web maintenance and support, consider your Coeur d'Alene business's potential future needs.

How We Perform Coeur d'Alene, ID Website Maintenance

Our professional web support team puts in a lot of effort to understand your needs, schedule your work on time, and follow up with your Coeur d'Alene business after the work is done.

Most website support services start with an email from you, the owner of the Coeur d'Alene website. Your email gets routed to our ticket system and automatically gets assigned to your project manager. From there, anyone on our team can work on the ticket without delay, leading to faster turnaround time and simplified internal communication.

For requests that originate from phone or live chat, a similar process to handling your Coeur d'Alene web maintenance services unfolds. 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 Website Maintenance Service List for Coeur d'Alene, ID Businesses

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

Simple Coeur d'Alene Website Updates

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

Coeur d'Alene Website Speed Improvements

We can analyze your Coeur d'Alene website for hosting issues, caching issues, unoptimized images, console errors, broken links, poor queries, and more if it's slow. This will help improve page load times, which are beneficial to user experience and search engine optimization.

Platform Upgrades / Security Updates

If your Coeur d'Alene website is running on a content management system, like WordPress, it is important to keep the platform updated. 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 Coeur d'Alene 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

Has Google Search Console told you there's 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 Coeur d'Alene and beyond!

Setup Structured Data

When you search Google organically, have you noticed reviews or prices in the search results? 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 Coeur d'Alene, and ecommerce product or some other common data type.

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.

Implement Google Tag Manager

Are you interested in adding Google Tag Manager to your website to help you manage custom scripts more easily? No problem at all! We can add Google Tag Manager to your Coeur d'Alene website and even give you a crash course in using Google Tag Manager.

Setup Conversion Tracking

Tracking conversions is important if you want to understand the benefits of online advertising for your Coeur d'Alene website. It'll help you understand where your conversions come from, like direct traffic, referral links, organic search, or paid ads.

Image Compression (Optimization)

Is your Coeur d'Alene website slow because of large images? Not 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

Do you want to try live chat on your website? If you'd like us to recommend the best live chat system for your Coeur d'Alene business, install the tracking code, and customize the design for your branding, we can do it!

Review Error Log Files

Have you noticed large error_log files on your hosting account? To stop recurring error messages, we can diagnose the problem and update programming code.

Setup reCaptcha on Forms

If spambots are attacking your Coeur d'Alene website, we can setup a checkbox or invisible reCaptcha to help minimize unwanted submissions on your forms.

Install a Caching Plugin

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

Send Website Emails Over SMTP

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

Have you been getting fake orders, contact submissions, or live chats from a particular network? If you want to protect your website from malicious traffic, we can help by implementing IP restrictions.

Run Website & Database Backups

Is it time to make a backup of your Coeur d'Alene website? We can help you create one-time or scheduled backups that store locally or at an offsite location.

Create a Testing Website

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

Create A/B Testing Rules

Would you like to make changes to your Coeur d'Alene website based on statistical data? 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.

Add 301 Redirects

Are you launching a new website or removing pages from your website? You will want to create 301 redirects for your Coeur d'Alene website to prevent broken pages from hurting your SEO. Having broken pages will cost your Coeur d'Alene 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

Want to learn how to make simple edits to your Coeur d'Alene website? Let us know what training you need if your Coeur d'Alene site was built on a platform we work with, like WordPress or Shopify!

The Platforms We Maintain for Coeur d'Alene, ID Websites

For Coeur d'Alene 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 Coeur d'Alene websites:

• Coeur d'Alene WordPress Web Maintenance
• Coeur d'Alene WooCommerce Website Maintenance
• Coeur d'Alene Shopify Web Support

As a website support company, we used to maintain and support Joomla and Magento websites for Coeur d'Alene-area businesses. However, we chose to move away from those platforms to allow our website maintenance experts to focus more heavily on training and support within the other systems.

Questions to Ask Coeur d'Alene, ID Web Support Companies

If you're thinking about signing up for any Coeur d'Alene web 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 expert Idaho website maintenance services before you submit payment and provide website access. You can ask these simple questions:

• How do you handle website security? Do you run security scans of customer websites?
• What is the turnaround time for Coeur d'Alene web support requests?
• Are you outsourcing your Coeur d'Alene website support services?
• How much does Coeur d'Alene web maintenance cost?
• Do you have minimum deductions or minimum billable expenses for Coeur d'Alene website updates?
• At what times of the day are you working and able to take our maintenance requests?
• Will you keep me informed about new updates within my platform?

If you ask these questions to a Coeur d'Alene website services firm, you'll gain a better understanding of the future relationship, the security of your website, and the turnaround time for important maintenance requests.

Coeur d'Alene, ID Web Support Plans and Tips

Larger companies in and around Coeur d'Alene often ask us for a website support plan. We are happy to help your Coeur d'Alene 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.

Read through this list of annual Coeur d'Alene web maintenance tasks to consider:

• Ask your web hosting company 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.
• 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 Coeur d'Alene) to see if you're missing out on any competitive advantages they have over you.
• Perform a full security review of your website to ensure nothing has been compromised or left vulnerable.
• Ensure that structured data, open graph, and social links are all working.
• Verify the necessity of any 3rd party tracking, live chat, or heat map scripts that are installed.
• Take down any unnecessary development or staging sites.

Read through this list of semi-annual Coeur d'Alene website 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.
• Make sure you have access to your DNS.
• Make sure your SSL certificate isn't expiring soon.
• Make sure you have remote backups outside Coeur d'Alene and that your website backup schedule is working.
• Make sure you're running an image optimization service.
• Check if the website is throwing any console errors.

Read through this list of monthly Coeur d'Alene web support tasks to review:

• Check for broken links on your website, which negatively impact user experience and SEO.
• Check for website performance issues from recent updates or changes on the website.
• 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.
• Check if there are available platform or extension updates.

The Cost of Website Support Service in Coeur d'Alene, ID

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