New Orleans, LA Website Maintenance Services

What is Involved in Maintaining New Orleans, LA Websites

We view web maintenance to be a reactive support service that provides your New Orleans business with the appropriate web developer resources to solve nearly any website problem. These are some examples of website issues that New Orleans web maintenance companies might fix:

• Updating your website platform.
• Keeping apps and plugins updated for better security and functionality.
• Adding new pages whenever you release something new.
• Writing new blog content to help you stay fresh.
• Rearranging the navigation menu of your New Orleans website.
• Making your page faster to pass Google Core Web Vitals.
• Backing up 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.

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

Reactive New Orleans Website Support

Most New Orleans website owners wouldn't want a web developer messing around with their site without their permission. That's why we consider web maintenance a reactive service. You can count on our firm to keep your New Orleans website running smoothly. However, we can offer some proactive New Orleans web support services.

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Proactive New Orleans Website Support

For website owners in New Orleans interested in a proactive management service for some of their website upkeep requirements, we are happy to accommodate! There are several website support 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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If you live in New Orleans, you probably love the New Orleans Saints football team. Go New Orleans Saints! In addition to supporting New Orleans-area websites, our web maintenance agency also offers Alexandria, Baton Rouge, Kenner, Lafayette, Metairie, Monroe, Shreveport, and Slidell small businesses and large corporations help with their websites.

Who Needs Website Maintenance in New Orleans, LA

At some point in time, every New Orleans website will require some form of web support. It's just that the internet changes all the time. However, we don't charge a lot for New Orleans website support, so you'll be able to afford it! There are a few reasons why a website in New Orleans might need maintenance:

• Hosting companies sometimes upgrade their servers, removing PHP versions that were used by your New Orleans 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 programmed in the past to work forever without any improvements.
• 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 had reached "End of Life" status and wouldn't be maintained or updated. As a result, Magento 1.x ecommerce businesses in New Orleans were looking for ecommerce developers to help migrate their websites.
• An owner of a New Orleans 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 New Orleans website content when it's outdated or doesn't explain your organization, products, or services well enough for future visitors. Maintaining your New Orleans 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 New Orleans business when planning budgets and schedules for website maintenance and support.

How We Perform New Orleans, LA Website Maintenance

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

Most New Orleans website support services start with an email from the website owner. Your email gets routed to our ticket system and automatically gets assigned to your project manager. We can then work on the ticket without delay, which leads to faster turnaround and easier internal communication.

Phone or live chat requests follow a similar process to New Orleans 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 Web Maintenance Service List for New Orleans, LA Businesses

We are often asked for detailed examples of New Orleans website maintenance requests that might come up after the launch of a website. We've performed these New Orleans web support services in the past, and would be happy to do it for you too!

Simple New Orleans Website Updates

Changes to your New Orleans website could be as simple as updating a paragraph, swapping images, or adding a new page. Keeping content fresh for search engines and visitors is just normal, routine website support.

New Orleans Page Speed Improvements

If your New Orleans website isn't running as fast as it once was, we can review your website for hosting issues, caching issues, unoptimized images, console errors, broken links, poor queries, and much more. User experience and SEO will both benefit from better page load times.

Platform Updates / Security Fixes

It's important to keep your New Orleans 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 New Orleans 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'll look at the coverage issues, fix them, and update you on the status. Make Google happy, and you'll rank higher throughout New Orleans and beyond!

Implement Structured Data

Do you ever see product prices or reviews in Google organic 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 New Orleans, and ecommerce product or some other common data type.

Add Open Graph Tags on 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.

Implement 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 New Orleans website and teach you how to use it.

Setup Conversion Tracking

It's important to setup conversion tracking for your New Orleans 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

Is your New Orleans 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

Do you want to try live chat on your website? We can make recommendations on the best live chat systems for your business requirements, install the tracking code, and configure the design to match the branding of your New Orleans business!

Review Error Logs for Issues

Do you have a lot of 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 New Orleans website, we can setup an invisible or checkbox reCaptcha.

Install a Caching Plugin

Interested in installing a caching plugin for your New Orleans 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

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? If you want to protect your website from malicious traffic, we can help by implementing IP restrictions.

Create Website Backups

Do you want to create a backup of your New Orleans website? Let us help you create one-time or scheduled backups that you can store locally or offsite.

Create a Staging 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 New Orleans 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 will want to create 301 redirects for your New Orleans website to prevent broken pages from hurting your SEO. Having broken pages will cost your New Orleans business a lot of organic traffic if they aren't fixed with 301 redirects. We are happy to help you resolve broken pages through the creation of 301 redirects within .htaccess files, nginx templates, and CMS plugins.

Train You on Your Website

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

We have a diverse team of web designers and web developers, for New Orleans businesses, who have been immersed in multiple website platforms over the years. Nevertheless, mastering a handful of platforms is better than trying to be an expert on everything. Because of that, we tend to service only these platforms for New Orleans websites:

• New Orleans WordPress Web Maintenance
• New Orleans WooCommerce Website Maintenance
• New Orleans Shopify Web Support

We've managed Joomla and Magento platforms for New Orleans businesses in the past. 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 New Orleans, LA Web Maintenance Agencies

Before signing up for any New Orleans website maintenance package, it is important to ask the New Orleans web support company some questions about how their services work. By doing this, you'll be able to better understand your future experience with their expert Louisiana web maintenance services before you submit payment or provide website access. You can ask these simple questions:

• Can you tell me how you handle website security? Do you run website security scans for clients?
• What's the turnaround time for New Orleans website maintenance?
• Do you outsource your New Orleans web support services?
• What are your New Orleans website support costs?
• Are there any minimum deductions or minimum billable expenses for New Orleans website updates?
• Can you tell me what your normal business hours are?
• When there are new updates on my platform, will you let me know?

If you ask any New Orleans 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.

New Orleans, LA Website Maintenance Plans and Tips

We are often asked for a web support plan by larger companies in and around New Orleans looking to establish routines and procedures within their IT department. Whether it's your website, hosting, or domain name, we'll make sure your New Orleans business has a website support plan to ensure optimum performance.

Read through this list of annual New Orleans web maintenance tasks to consider:

• Message your web hosting firm to see if they have upgraded servers you can switch your website to for faster page speeds.
• 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 New Orleans.
• Look at competitor websites (even those outside of New Orleans) to see if you are missing out on new functionality for your own customers.
• Ensure your website is secure by performing a full security review.
• Make sure structured data, open graph, and social links are 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 New Orleans 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 you have remote backups outside New Orleans and that your website backup schedule is working.
• If you have an automated image optimization service, verify it is working properly.
• Make sure the website doesn't throw any console errors.

Check out this list of monthly New Orleans web support tasks to consider:

• 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's anything wrong being reported within Google Search Console.
• Keep your website fresh by updating your content within one of your service pages or blog articles.
• Take a look at your website platform and extensions for any available updates.

The Cost of Website Support Service in New Orleans, LA

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