Kansas City Website Maintenance Services

What is Involved in Maintaining Kansas City, KS Websites

We view website maintenance to be a reactive support service that provides your Kansas City business with the appropriate web developer resources to solve nearly any website problem. Here are a few examples of website problems that might need Kansas City web support:

• Updating your website platform.
• Updating apps and plugins to make them safer and more functional.
• Adding new pages whenever you release something new.
• Staying fresh with new blog content.
• Rearranging your Kansas City site's navigation menu.
• Improve your page speed to pass Google Core Web Vitals.
• Taking 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.

The previously mentioned services are just a glimpse of what we view as possible Kansas City website support services. In fact, Kansas City web maintenance is basically anything a web developer or digital marketer does to your website.

Reactive Kansas City Website Support

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

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Proactive Kansas City Website Support

Interested in a proactive website management service for some of your website upkeep? We're happy to help! 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 Kansas City-area websites, our web maintenance agency also offers Lawrence, Manhattan, Olathe, Overland Park, Topeka, and Wichita small businesses and large corporations help with their websites.

Who Needs Website Maintenance in Kansas City, KS

At some point in time, every Kansas City website will require some form of web support. It's because the internet is always changing. However, we don't charge a lot for Kansas City website support, so you'll be able to afford it! Website maintenance in Kansas City might be needed for these reasons:

• Hosting companies sometimes upgrade their servers, removing PHP versions that were used by your Kansas City website. This means you have to refactor your app or upgrade to a newer framework that supports the new PHP version. There's no way you can expect custom web functionality 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. This recently happened to Magento 1.x ecommerce store owners who were forced to migrate to Magento 2.x, or an alternative ecommerce platform, because Magento 1.x had reached an “End of Life” status and would no longer be maintained or updated by Magento. As a result, Magento 1.x ecommerce businesses in Kansas City were looking for ecommerce developers to help migrate their websites.
• An owner of a Kansas City 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 Kansas City website content when it's outdated or doesn't explain your organization, products, or services well enough for future visitors. This type of website maintenance is critical to ensuring your Kansas City website is benefiting you.

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 Kansas City business when planning budgets and schedules for website maintenance and support.

How We Perform Kansas City, KS Web Support

We have an experienced website support team who puts forth great effort to understand your maintenance needs, schedule your work in a timely fashion, and follow up with your Kansas City business after the tasks have been completed.

A Kansas City web maintenance service usually starts with an email from you. Your email gets routed to our ticket system and automatically gets assigned to your project manager. Anyone on our team can work on the ticket without delay, resulting in faster turnaround time.

Phone or live chat requests follow a similar process to Kansas City web maintenance. We route the support request to the most appropriate web developer on our team based on the nature of the work needed on your website.

Example Website Maintenance Service List for Kansas City, KS Businesses

We are often asked for detailed examples of Kansas City web support requests that might come up after the launch of a website. The following are some examples of Kansas City website support services we've provided in the past.

Simple Kansas City Website Updates

Your Kansas City website might need a paragraph updated, an image changed, or a new page added. Keeping content fresh for search engines and visitors is just normal, routine web maintenance.

Kansas City Site Performance Improvements

Let us check your Kansas City website for hosting, caching, image optimization, console errors, broken links, poor database queries, and other potential problems that might be impacting your page speed. It'll help improve page load times, which will make users and search engines happy.

Platform Upgrades / Security Patches

It's important to keep your Kansas City 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 Kansas City website's plugins and extensions to reflect the latest changes by the developers. This is similar to the idea of updating the CMS platform since it helps patch security and functionality issues.

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 Kansas City and beyond!

Add Structured Data

Do you ever see product prices or reviews in Google organic search results? This is structured data, which is a standardized way of describing content on the web, whether it's a local business in Kansas City or an ecommerce product.

Add Open Graph to Your Website

When people share links of your Kansas City 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.

Setup Google Tag Manager

Interested in using Google Tag Manager for managing custom scripts? That won't be a problem! We'll happily install Google Tag Manager on your Kansas City 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 Kansas City website, it is important to setup conversion tracking. It'll help you understand where your conversions come from, like direct traffic, referral links, organic search, or paid ads.

Optimize Images

Do you have a Kansas City website that's slow because of large images? That won't be a problem! Using our image compression tools, we can compress all your images and even set up recurring compression for new 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 Kansas City business, install the tracking code, and customize the design for your branding, we can do it!

Resolve Errors in 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

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

Install a Caching Plugin

Are you interested in installing a caching plugin in your Kansas City 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!

Setup SMTP Email

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

Is your Kansas City 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.

Backup Your Website Files

Would you like a backup of your Kansas City website? Backups can be performed one-time, or scheduled at specific intervals, and stored locally or offsite.

Create a Development Website

When you're doing a major upgrade or extension installation, you should set up a development or staging site first. Just let us know if you need help creating and managing that development / staging site!

Create A/B Testing Rules

Are you a fan of making Kansas City web design changes 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? Make sure your Kansas City website has 301 redirects to prevent or at least minimize 404 errors. Having broken pages will cost your Kansas City business a lot of organic traffic if they aren't fixed with 301 redirects. We can help you set up 301 redirects in .htaccess files, nginx templates, and CMS platforms.

Train You on Your Website

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

The Platforms We Maintain for Kansas City, KS Websites

We have a diverse team of web designers and web developers, for Kansas City businesses, who have been immersed in multiple website platforms over the years. Having said that, it's better to master a few platforms than try to specialize in them all. Because of that, we tend to service only these platforms for Kansas City websites:

• Kansas City WordPress Website Maintenance
• Kansas City WooCommerce Web Support
• Kansas City Shopify Website Support

In the past, we provided website maintenance and support for Joomla and Magento platforms of Kansas City businesses. However, we chose not to use those platforms so our web maintenance experts could focus on training and support within the more popular platforms.

Questions to Ask Kansas City, KS Web Maintenance Companies

Before signing up for any Kansas City web support package, it is important to ask the Kansas City website support company some questions about how their services work. It'll give you a better idea of the experience you'll have with their professional Kansas website maintenance services prior to making payment and providing website access. You can ask these simple questions:

• What kind of security do you have on your site? Do you scan client websites for security?
• What's the turnaround time for Kansas City web support?
• Is your Kansas City website support outsourced?
• How much might it cost to maintain an average Kansas City website?
• Are there minimum deductions or minimum billable expenses for Kansas City website updates?
• What are your normal hours of operation?
• When there are new updates on my platform, will you let me know?

If you ask any Kansas City website services firm 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.

Kansas City, KS Website Maintenance Plans and Tips

We are often asked for a web support plan by larger companies in and around Kansas City looking to establish routines and procedures within their IT department. We can help your Kansas City business set up a website support plan so all aspects of your website, hosting, and domain name are monitored regularly.

Read through this list of annual Kansas City web maintenance tasks to consider:

• Check if your web hosting provider has newer servers that your account can be migrated to.
• Ask your web developer if your website has a major platform release coming up that will require a lot of work to install.
• Try restoring a website backup to make sure the data is good enough for a full recovery. Also, make sure your backups are stored somewhere else besides Kansas City.
• Take a look at the websites of your competitors (even those outside Kansas City) to see if you're missing out on anything.
• Take a look at your website's security to make sure nothing's been compromised.
• Verify structured data, open graph, and social links are all working properly.
• 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 Kansas City 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.
• Ensure you have access to your hosting account and that it isn't expiring soon.
• 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.

Check out this list of monthly Kansas City web support tasks to consider:

• Ensure your website doesn't have any broken links, which affect user experience and SEO.
• Make sure your website isn't having performance issues after recent updates.
• See if there are any coverage issues in Google Search Console.
• Provide some kind of update to your content to keep your website fresh.
• Take a look at your website platform and extensions for any available updates.

The Cost of Website Support Service in Kansas City, KS

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