Meridian, ID Website Maintenance Services

What is Involved in Maintaining Meridian, ID Websites

We see website maintenance as a reactive support service where we provide your Meridian business with the right web developer resources to fix just about any problem. These are some examples of website issues that Meridian web support companies might fix:

• Upgrading your website platform to the latest version.
• Installing app or plugin updates to improve security and functionality.
• Adding new pages whenever you release something new.
• Writing new blog content to help you stay fresh.
• Rearranging your Meridian website'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.
• Enhancing technical SEO with structured data, open graph tags, etc.
• Providing solutions to other website problems.

Those services are just a taste of what Meridian web maintenance might look like. In fact, Meridian web maintenance is really anything a web developer or digital marketer does to your website to change it in some manner.

Reactive Meridian Website Support

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

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Proactive Meridian Website Support

We're happy to help website owners in Meridian 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 Meridian-area websites, our web maintenance firm also offers Boise, Coeur d'Alene, Idaho Falls, Nampa, Pocatello, and Rexburg small businesses and large corporations help with their websites.

Who Needs Web Support in Meridian, ID

There will come a time when every Meridian website needs some sort of maintenance. It's just that the internet changes all the time. Not to worry though, our Meridian website 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 Meridian might require web maintenance services:

• Hosting companies sometimes upgrade their servers, removing PHP versions that were used by your Meridian website. When this happens, you need to refactor your application or upgrade to a newer framework that supports the newer PHP version. You can't expect custom web functionality from the past 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 Meridian were looking for ecommerce developers to help migrate their websites.
• An owner of a Meridian 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. 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 Meridian website content when it's outdated or doesn't explain your organization, products, or services well enough for future visitors. Keeping your Meridian 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 Meridian business when planning budgets and schedules for website maintenance and support.

How We Perform Meridian, ID Website Maintenance

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

Most Meridian website support services start with an email from the website owner. 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.

Phone or live chat requests follow a similar process to Meridian web maintenance. 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 Maintenance Service List for Meridian, ID Businesses

After the launch of a website, we're often asked for detailed examples of Meridian web support requests. We've performed these Meridian website support services in the past, and would be happy to do it for you too!

Simple Meridian Website Changes

A simple change to your Meridian website might include updating a paragraph on a page, swapping out an image, or adding a new page. Keeping content fresh for search engines and visitors is just normal, routine web maintenance.

Meridian Page Speed Improvements

We can analyze your Meridian website for hosting issues, caching issues, unoptimized images, console errors, broken links, poor queries, and more if it's slow. User experience and SEO will both benefit from better page load times.

Platform Upgrades / Security Updates

It's important to keep your Meridian 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!

Extension / Plugin Updates

It's important to update your Meridian 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 fix the coverage issues, and let you know how it went. This will help your search engine rankings, throughout Meridian and beyond, by making Google happy!

Add 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 Meridian business, or an ecommerce product.

Add Open Graph to Your Website

When people share links of your Meridian 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.

Add Google Tag Manager

Interested in using Google Tag Manager for managing custom scripts? No problem at all! We can add Google Tag Manager to your Meridian 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 Meridian 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 Optimization

Is your Meridian 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

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

Review Error Logs for Issues

Have you noticed large error_log files on your hosting account? We can help diagnose the issue and update programming code or repair platform issues to prevent recurring error messages.

Setup reCaptcha on Forms

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

Implement a Caching Plugin

Looking to install a caching plugin on your Meridian 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.

Restrict Malicious 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.

Create Website Backups

Do you want to create a backup of your Meridian website? Backups can be performed one-time, or scheduled at specific intervals, and stored locally or offsite.

Create a Development Website

Before you do a major update or extension installation, it's a good idea to setup a development or staging site. 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 Meridian 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.

Add 301 Redirects

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

With years of experience developing websites for Meridian businesses (and those in other areas of the country), our web designers and web developers have been immersed in multiple platforms. Nevertheless, mastering a handful of platforms is better than trying to be an expert on everything. For that reason, our web maintenance company for Meridian websites tends to service only the following platforms:

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

As a website maintenance agency, we used to maintain and support Joomla and Magento websites for Meridian-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 Meridian, ID Web Maintenance Agencies

Ask the Meridian website maintenance company some questions about their services before you sign up for a package. By doing this, you'll be able to better understand your future experience with their premium Idaho website support services before you submit payment or 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's the turnaround time for Meridian web maintenance?
• Do you outsource your Meridian website maintenance services?
• How much does Meridian web support cost?
• Are there any minimum deductions or minimum billable expenses for Meridian 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 Meridian website services company these questions before subscribing to their web maintenance 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.

Meridian, ID Web Maintenance Plans and Tips

Companies in and around Meridian often ask us for a website maintenance plan to establish routines and procedures. Whether it's your website, hosting, or domain name, we'll make sure your Meridian business has a web support plan to ensure optimum performance.

Here is a list of annual Meridian website support tasks to review:

• Ask your web hosting company if they have newer servers you can migrate 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 Meridian.
• Check out competitor sites (even those outside of Meridian) 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.
• 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.

Read through this list of semi-annual Meridian 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.
• Make sure your website backup schedule is working and you have remote backups.
• Check if you have an automated image optimization service running.
• See if there are any console errors on the website.

Read through this list of monthly Meridian website 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.
• 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 Web Support Service in Meridian, ID

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