Overland Park, KS Website Maintenance Services

What is Involved in Maintaining Overland Park, KS Websites

Web maintenance is a reactive support service that connects you with the right web developer to fix nearly any website issue. Here are a few examples of website problems that might need Overland Park website support:

• 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.
• Staying fresh with new blog content.
• Rearranging your Overland Park site'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.
• Fixing Google Search Console coverage issues.
• Improving technical SEO by adding structured data, open graph tags, etc.
• Providing solutions to other website problems.

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

Reactive Overland Park Website Support

Most Overland Park website owners wouldn't want a web developer messing around with their site without their permission. That's why we consider web support a reactive service. Our company will be your web support team on standby for any questions you have. However, we can provide some proactive web maintenance services for your Overland Park website.

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Proactive Overland Park Website Support

For website owners in Overland Park interested in a proactive management service for some of their website upkeep requirements, we are happy to accommodate! There are several web 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 Overland Park-area websites, our website maintenance firm also offers Kansas City, Lawrence, Manhattan, Olathe, Topeka, and Wichita small businesses and large corporations help with their websites.

Who Needs Website Support in Overland Park, KS

Every Overland Park website will need some web maintenance at some point. It's because the internet is always changing. However, we don't charge a lot for Overland Park website maintenance, so you'll be able to afford it! Here are some common reasons why a website in Overland Park might require web support services:

• When a hosting company upgrades their servers, they may remove older versions of PHP that your Overland Park website was originally developed to support. 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. 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 Overland Park were looking for ecommerce developers to help migrate their websites.
• An owner of a Overland Park 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 can be a time-consuming activity, and often happens because the website owner wasn't being mindful of the first two website support examples, listed above.
• You need to refresh your Overland Park website content when it's outdated or doesn't explain your organization, products, or services well enough for future visitors. Keeping your Overland Park 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 Overland Park business when planning budgets and schedules for website maintenance and support.

How We Perform Overland Park, KS Web Maintenance

Our professional web maintenance team puts in a lot of effort to understand your needs, schedule your work on time, and follow up with your Overland Park business after the work is done.

A Overland Park website 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. 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 Overland Park web support services unfolds. 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 Support Service List for Overland Park, KS Businesses

We're often asked for examples of Overland Park web maintenance requests after a website launches. The following are some examples of Overland Park website maintenance services we've provided in the past.

Simple Overland Park Website Updates

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

Overland Park Site Performance Improvements

Let us check your Overland Park 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 Updates

It's important to keep your Overland Park 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!

Plugin / Extension Updates

It's important to update your Overland Park 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'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 Overland Park and beyond!

Add 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 Overland Park, and ecommerce product or some other common data type.

Add Open Graph Tags on Your Website

When people share links of your Overland Park 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

Would you like to manage custom scripts more easily with Google Tag Manager? No problem at all! We'll happily install Google Tag Manager on your Overland Park website and teach you how to use it.

Add Conversion Tracking

If you are interested in understanding the benefit of an online advertising campaign for your Overland Park 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.

Image Compression (Optimization)

Is your Overland Park website slow because of large images? No problem at all! 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 Overland Park 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? If you're getting recurring error messages, we can update programming code or fix platform issues.

Reduce Spam with reCaptcha

We can set up a checkbox or invisible reCaptcha to help minimize unwanted submissions on your Overland Park website.

Install a Caching Plugin

Looking to install a caching plugin on your Overland Park website, but not sure how to configure it? We can recommend caching plugins, or we can 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

Have you been getting fake orders, contact submissions, or live chats from a particular network? We can help setup IP restrictions to prevent malicious traffic from interacting with your website.

Run Website & Database Backups

Is it time to make a backup of your Overland Park website? Backups can be performed one-time, or scheduled at specific intervals, and stored locally or offsite.

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!

Setup A/B Testing

Are you a fan of making Overland Park 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

Have you launched a new website or removed pages? Make sure your Overland Park website has 301 redirects to prevent or at least minimize 404 errors. We've seen businesses in and around Overland Park lose huge amounts of organic traffic due to widespread broken pages. 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 Overland Park website? If your Overland Park 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 Overland Park, KS Websites

For Overland Park businesses, we have a team of web designers and web developers who have experience with multiple platforms. 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 Overland Park websites:

• Overland Park WordPress Website Support
• Overland Park WooCommerce Web Maintenance
• Overland Park Shopify Web Maintenance

As a website maintenance firm, we used to maintain and support Joomla and Magento websites for Overland Park-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 Overland Park, KS Web Maintenance Firms

If you're thinking about signing up for any Overland Park web support package, make sure you ask the company how their services work. It'll give you a better idea of the experience you'll have with their professional Kansas web maintenance services prior to making payment and providing 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 Overland Park web maintenance requests?
• Is your Overland Park website maintenance outsourced?
• How much might it cost to maintain an average Overland Park website?
• Are there minimum deductions or minimum billable expenses for Overland Park 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 Overland Park website services firm these questions before subscribing to their website support 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.

Overland Park, KS Web Maintenance Plans and Tips

Larger companies in and around Overland Park often ask us for a website maintenance plan. We can help your Overland Park business set up a web support plan so all aspects of your website, hosting, and domain name are monitored regularly.

Read through this list of annual Overland Park website support 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.
• 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 Overland Park.
• Take a look at the websites of your competitors (even those outside Overland Park) to see if you're missing out on anything.
• 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.
• Delete any development or staging websites you don't need.

Here is a list of semi-annual Overland Park web maintenance tasks to consider:

• 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 you have remote backups outside Overland Park and that your website backup schedule is working.
• Make sure you're running an image optimization service.
• See if there are any console errors on the website.

Read through this list of monthly Overland Park web maintenance 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 are any coverage issues in Google Search Console.
• Update some of your service pages or blog articles to keep your website fresh.
• See if there are any updates for your website platform or extensions.

The Cost of Website Maintenance Service in Overland Park, KS

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