Lafayette, LA Website Maintenance Services

What is Involved in Maintaining Lafayette, LA 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 Lafayette web maintenance:

• Upgrading your website platform to the latest version.
• Updating apps and plugins to make them safer and more functional.
• Adding new pages whenever you release something new.
• Freshen up your blog with new content.
• Rearranging your Lafayette site'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.
• Troubleshooting Google Search Console coverage issues.
• Adding structured data, open graph tags, etc.
• Providing solutions to other website problems.

These are just a few of the Lafayette web maintenance services we offer. Basically, Lafayette website maintenance is anything a web developer or internet marketer does to change your website.

Reactive Lafayette Website Support

We consider web support a reactive service because most Lafayette website owners don't want a developer messing with their website without their permission. Our agency will be your web support team on standby for any questions you have. However, we can offer some proactive Lafayette web maintenance services.

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Proactive Lafayette Website Support

We're happy to help website owners in Lafayette 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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Who Needs Website Support in Lafayette, LA

Every Lafayette website will need some web maintenance at some point. It's because the internet is always changing. Not to worry though, our Lafayette web maintenance cost isn't expensive so it should be affordable for you to maintain your website! Website maintenance in Lafayette might be needed for these reasons:

• Hosting companies sometimes upgrade their servers, removing PHP versions that were used by your Lafayette website. That means you'll have to refactor your app or upgrade to a newer framework that supports the latest PHP release. There's no way you can expect custom web functionality 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 Lafayette were looking for ecommerce developers to help migrate their websites.
• 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. In most cases, this happens because the website owner didn't pay attention to the first two website maintenance examples.
• You need to refresh your Lafayette website content when it's outdated or doesn't explain your organization, products, or services well enough for future visitors. Maintaining your Lafayette website is key to making sure it's working for you.

There are many reasons why a website might need maintenance, other than just to update something. It is important to understand the future needs of your Lafayette business when planning budgets and schedules for website maintenance and support.

How We Perform Lafayette, LA Web Support

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

A Lafayette web maintenance service usually starts with an email from you. That email is routed into our ticket system and automatically assigned to the project manager on your account. 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 Lafayette website maintenance. 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 Web Support Service List for Lafayette, LA Businesses

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

Simple Lafayette Website Changes

Your Lafayette 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.

Lafayette Website Speed Improvements

Let us check your Lafayette website for hosting, caching, image optimization, console errors, broken links, poor database queries, and other potential problems that might be impacting your page speed. User experience and SEO will both benefit from better page load times.

Platform Upgrades / Security Updates

It's important to keep your Lafayette website updated if it runs on a CMS like WordPress. Updates help improve security and functionality - and they're usually quick, so it might be a simple task.

Plugin / Extension Upgrades

It's important to update your Lafayette 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.

Google 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. By making Google happy, you'll boost your search engine rankings throughout Lafayette and beyond!

Implement 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 Lafayette business, or an ecommerce product.

Add Open Graph to 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.

Add Google Tag Manager

Would you like to manage custom scripts more easily with Google Tag Manager? No problem at all! We can add Google Tag Manager to your Lafayette website and even teach you how to use it.

Add Conversion Tracking

If you are interested in understanding the benefit of an online advertising campaign for your Lafayette website, it is important to setup conversion tracking. Then you'll know where your conversions come from, whether it be direct traffic, organic search, or paid ads.

Image Optimization

Is your Lafayette 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!

Integrate a Live Chat

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

Resolve Errors in Log Files

Are your error_log files big? If you're getting recurring error messages, we can update programming code or fix platform issues.

Setup reCaptcha on Forms

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

Implement a Caching Plugin

Interested in installing a caching plugin for your Lafayette 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!

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? Our team can help set up IP restrictions so your website doesn't get hit with as much malicious traffic.

Backup Your Website Files

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

Create a Staging Website

It is often recommended that you setup a development or staging website before proceeding with a major upgrade or extension installation. Just let us know if you need help creating and managing that development / staging site!

Setup A/B Testing

Are you a fan of making Lafayette web design changes based on statistical data? We can help you run A/B testing to help you decide which design or content layouts are best.

Add 301 Redirects

Have you launched a new website or removed pages? You will want to create 301 redirects for your Lafayette website to prevent broken pages from hurting your SEO. Having broken pages will cost your Lafayette 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.

Offer Website Training

Do you need help learning how to make changes to your Lafayette website? If your Lafayette 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 Lafayette, LA Websites

For Lafayette 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. For that reason, our website maintenance firm for Lafayette websites tends to service only the following platforms:

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

As a web support company, we used to maintain and support Joomla and Magento websites for Lafayette-area 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 Lafayette, LA Web Maintenance Companies

If you're thinking about signing up for any Lafayette 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 expert Louisiana web maintenance services prior to making payment and providing website access. Let's go over some simple questions to ask:

• What kind of security do you have on your site? Do you scan client websites for security?
• What's the turnaround time for Lafayette website maintenance?
• Are you outsourcing your Lafayette web support services?
• How much might it cost to maintain an average Lafayette website?
• Are there any minimum deductions or minimum billable expenses for Lafayette 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 these questions to a Lafayette website services company, you'll gain a better understanding of the future relationship, the security of your website, and the turnaround time for important maintenance requests.

Lafayette, LA Web Maintenance Plans and Tips

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

Here is a list of annual Lafayette web support tasks to review:

• 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.
• Restore a website backup to make sure the data is enough for full recovery. Also, make sure your backups are stored remotely.
• Take a look at the websites of your competitors (even those outside Lafayette) to see if you're missing out on anything.
• 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.
• Take down any unnecessary development or staging sites.

Check out this list of semi-annual Lafayette website support 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 can access your DNS in case anything needs to be changed.
• 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.
• Make sure you're running an image optimization service.
• Make sure the website doesn't throw any console errors.

Read through this list of monthly Lafayette web 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's anything wrong being reported within 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 Lafayette, LA

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