Baton Rouge, LA Website Maintenance Services

What is Involved in Maintaining Baton Rouge, LA Websites

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

• Updating your website platform.
• 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 Baton Rouge website's navigation menu.
• Improving page speed to help you pass Google Core Web Vitals.
• Taking backups of your website's files and databases.
• Making your website look and feel better.
• Troubleshooting Google Search Console coverage issues.
• Enhancing technical SEO with structured data, open graph tags, etc.
• Providing solutions to other website problems.

These are just a few of the Baton Rouge website support services we offer. In fact, Baton Rouge web maintenance is basically anything a web developer or digital marketer does to your website.

Reactive Baton Rouge Website Support

We consider website maintenance a reactive service because most Baton Rouge website owners don't want a developer messing with their website without their permission. You can count on our agency to keep your Baton Rouge website running smoothly. There are some website support services we can provide your Baton Rouge website in a proactive manner though.

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Proactive Baton Rouge Website Support

We're happy to help website owners in Baton Rouge who need proactive website upkeep! 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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If you live in Baton Rouge, you probably love the LSU Tigers basketball team. Go LSU Tigers! In addition to supporting Baton Rouge-area websites, our web maintenance agency also offers Alexandria, Kenner, Lafayette, Metairie, Monroe, New Orleans, Shreveport, and Slidell small businesses and large corporations help with their websites.

Who Needs Website Maintenance in Baton Rouge, LA

At some point in time, every Baton Rouge website will require some form of web support. It's because the internet is always changing. However, we don't charge a lot for Baton Rouge website support, so you'll be able to afford it! Here are some common reasons why a website in Baton Rouge might require web maintenance services:

• When a hosting provider upgrades their servers, they may remove older versions of PHP that your Baton Rouge 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. 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. Because of that, Magento 1.x ecommerce businesses in Baton Rouge were suddenly looking for an ecommerce developer to help migrate their website to a supported platform.
• 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 website maintenance examples.
• You need to refresh your Baton Rouge website content when it's outdated or doesn't explain your organization, products, or services well enough for future visitors. Maintaining your Baton Rouge website is key to making sure it's working for 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 Baton Rouge business when planning budgets and schedules for website maintenance and support.

How We Perform Baton Rouge, LA 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 Baton Rouge business after the tasks have been completed.

A Baton Rouge 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. 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 Baton Rouge 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 Website Maintenance Service List for Baton Rouge, LA Businesses

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

Simple Baton Rouge Website Updates

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

Baton Rouge Website Speed Improvements

We can analyze your Baton Rouge 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 Patches

Keeping your Baton Rouge website's content management system updated is important if it's running on 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 Baton Rouge website's plugins and extensions to reflect the latest changes by the developers. It's similar to 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 Baton Rouge and beyond!

Setup 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 Baton Rouge business, or an ecommerce product.

Implement Open Graph on Your Website

Adding Open Graph Tags to your website will help search engines better understand your page content and improve the appearance of your website in social media platforms when people share links of your Baton Rouge business.

Setup 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 Baton Rouge website and teach you how to use it.

Setup Conversion Tracking

It's important to setup conversion tracking for your Baton Rouge website if you want to understand the benefits of online advertising. 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 Baton Rouge website that's slow because of large images? That won't be a problem! We can run all your images through our image compression tools and even setup recurring image compression for newly added images in the future!

Integrate a Live Chat

Is your website ready for live chat? Our experts can help you pick the right live chat system, install the tracking code, and customize the design to match your Baton Rouge business branding!

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

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

Install a Caching Plugin

Interested in installing a caching plugin for your Baton Rouge website, but don't know how to set it up? 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 Baton Rouge website being bombarded with fake orders, contact submissions or live chats from a specific network? Our team can help set up IP restrictions so your website doesn't get hit with as much malicious traffic.

Run Website & Database Backups

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

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 Baton Rouge 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? Make sure your Baton Rouge website has 301 redirects to prevent or at least minimize 404 errors. Having broken pages will cost your Baton Rouge business a lot of organic traffic if they aren't fixed with 301 redirects. We can help you create 301 redirects within .htaccess files, nginx templates, and CMS platforms.

Offer Website Training

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

The Platforms We Maintain for Baton Rouge, LA Websites

We have a diverse team of web designers and web developers, for Baton Rouge 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 Baton Rouge websites:

• Baton Rouge WordPress Website Maintenance
• Baton Rouge WooCommerce Web Support
• Baton Rouge Shopify Website Support

In the past, we provided website maintenance and support for Joomla and Magento platforms of Baton Rouge businesses. The reason we moved away from those platforms was to let our web maintenance experts focus more on training and support.

Questions to Ask Baton Rouge, LA Web Maintenance Companies

Before signing up for any Baton Rouge web support package, it is important to ask the Baton Rouge 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 Louisiana website 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?
• When can I expect an average Baton Rouge web support request to be completed?
• Are you outsourcing your Baton Rouge website support services?
• How much does Baton Rouge web maintenance cost?
• Do you have minimum deductions or minimum billable expenses for Baton Rouge website updates?
• What are your normal hours of operation?
• How will I know about new updates to my platform?

If you ask these questions to a Baton Rouge 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.

Baton Rouge, LA Website Maintenance Plans and Tips

We are often asked for a web support plan by larger companies in and around Baton Rouge looking to establish routines and procedures within their IT department. We can help your Baton Rouge 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 Baton Rouge web maintenance tasks to consider:

• 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 Baton Rouge) 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.
• Verify structured data, open graph, and social links are all working properly.
• Check if any 3rd party tracking, live chat, or heat map scripts are installed but no longer necessary.
• Take down any unnecessary development or staging sites.

Read through this list of semi-annual Baton Rouge 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 that your hosting account isn't about to expire and you can access it.
• 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.
• Check if the website is throwing any console errors.

Read through this list of monthly Baton Rouge web support tasks to review:

• Look for broken links on your website, which hurts SEO and user experience.
• Check your website for performance issues after recent updates or changes.
• Check Google Search Console for any coverage issues.
• Provide some kind of update to your content to keep your website fresh.
• See if there are any updates for your website platform or extensions.

The Cost of Website Support Service in Baton Rouge, LA

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