Helena, MT Website Maintenance Services

Our Helena, MT Website Maintenance Services

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

• Upgrading your website platform to the latest version.
• Keeping apps and plugins updated for better security and functionality.
• Adding new web pages as you release new information.
• Staying fresh with new blog content.
• Rearranging your Helena site's navigation menu.
• Making your page faster to pass Google Core Web Vitals.
• Take backups of your website's files and databases.
• Modifying the look and feel of your website's design.
• Fixing site audit issues or Google Search Console coverage problems.
• Enhancing technical SEO with structured data, open graph tags, etc.
• Investigating the cause and providing a solution to any other website issue.

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

In addition to supporting Helena-area websites, our web maintenance agency also offers Billings, Bozeman, Evergreen, and Missoula small businesses and large corporations help with their websites.

Pricing for Helena, MT Website Maintenance

The starting price for our 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.

If you purchase a website maintenance retainer, there are no contracts, hidden fees, expirations, or minimum deductions.

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, working on the request, providing feedback, and logging the task usually takes at least 10 minutes of time.

To keep you informed of the time usage on your pre-purchased web maintenance retainer, you'll receive a monthly update letting you know how much time remains on your account.

Our Helena, MT Website Management Services

Tired of being warned about available updates? Worried about website downtime? Let our web development team take care of both worries through proactive website management!

Here is a list of what is included in our website management plans:

1.) Proactive Website Updates

We have an in-house team of website experts ready to perform platform updates, theme updates, and plugin/extension updates on a quarterly or monthly schedule for WordPress or WooCommerce websites!

1. Backup: We start by taking backups of your website files and database.
2. Update: Next, we manually install any available updates on your website.
3. Test: After the updates have been installed, we test your website for issues.
4. Finalize: If the upgrades were successful, you'll be better protected against security threats and malware! If the updates aren't successful, we'll discuss next steps.

2.) Remote Website Backups

We store remote backups of your website and database to minimize the risk of data loss.

3.) Website Uptime Monitoring

We monitor your website for service outages within our uptime monitoring system.

If your website goes down, an alert will be sent to our web developers to allow us to investigate the issue.

Pricing for Helena, MT Website Management

Our website management plans are offered in monthly and quarterly options. This allows you to choose how often our team processes remote backups and installs available website updates.

The Platforms We Maintain for Helena, MT Websites

We have a diverse team of web designers and web developers, for Helena 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. For that reason, our website maintenance firm for Helena websites tends to service only the following platforms:

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

As a web support company, we used to maintain and support Joomla and Magento websites for Helena-area businesses. However, we chose to move away from those platforms to allow our web maintenance experts to focus more heavily on training and support within the other systems.

Example Web Maintenance Service List for Helena, MT Businesses

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

Simple Helena Website Changes

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

Helena Site Performance Improvements

Let us check your Helena 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

If your Helena website is running on a content management system, like WordPress, it is important to keep the platform updated. This helps improve security and functionality - sometimes the updates are relatively quick to perform, which is a win-win!

Extension / Plugin Updates

If your Helena website has functionality developed and maintained by a third-party, it is important to update those plugins and extensions to include 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

Has Google Search Console told you there's a coverage problem? 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 Helena and beyond!

Implement Structured Data

Have you ever noticed information like reviews or product prices in the listing of a Google organic search result? 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 Helena, and ecommerce product or some other common data type.

Add Open Graph to 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 Helena business.

Add 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 Helena website and teach you how to use it.

Setup Conversion Tracking

Tracking conversions is important if you want to understand the benefits of online advertising for your Helena website. This will help you understand where your conversions are coming from, such as a Google search or a Bing Ads campaign.

Optimize Images

Is your Helena 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!

Integrate a Live Chat

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

Review Error Logs for Issues

Are your error_log files big? We can help diagnose the issue and update programming code or repair platform issues to prevent recurring error messages.

Integrate reCaptcha on Contact Forms

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

Setup a Caching Plugin

Looking to install a caching plugin on your Helena website, but not sure how to configure it? We can help you figure out which caching plugins to install and configure on your website!

Implement 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.

Create Website Backups

Do you want to create a backup of your Helena website? We can help you create one-time or scheduled backups that store locally or at an offsite location.

Create a Development 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!

Implement A/B Testing

Do you prefer to make design changes based on statistical data regarding how users interact with your Helena web page? 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.

Create 301 Redirects

Are you launching a new website or removing pages from your website? You should create 301 redirects for your Helena website. We've seen businesses in and around Helena lose huge amounts of organic traffic due to widespread broken pages. We can help you create 301 redirects within .htaccess files, nginx templates, and CMS platforms.

Provide Website Training

Do you need help learning how to make changes to your Helena website? If your Helena site was developed in a platform we work within, such as WordPress or Shopify, we'll be happy to help!

Questions to Ask Helena, MT Web Maintenance Firms

Before signing up for any Helena web support package, it is important to ask the Helena website support company some questions about how their services work. By doing this, you'll be able to better understand your future experience with their premium Montana web maintenance services before you submit payment or provide website access. Let's go over some simple questions to ask:

• Can you tell me how you handle website security? Do you run website security scans for clients?
• When can I expect an average Helena website maintenance request to be completed?
• Is your Helena web support outsourced?
• How much might it cost to maintain an average Helena website?
• Are there any minimum deductions or minimum billable expenses for Helena website updates?
• At what times of the day are you working and able to take our maintenance requests?
• Will you keep me informed about new updates within my platform?

We find it beneficial to run these questions by any Helena website services agency before subscribing to their web maintenance packages, since it will provide much better understanding for you regarding the future relationship, the security of your website, and the expected turnaround time for important maintenance requests.

Helena, MT Website Maintenance Plans and Tips

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

Annual Helena web maintenance tasks

• Message your web hosting firm to see if they have upgraded servers you can switch your website to for faster page speeds.
• Check if your website platform is releasing a major upgrade in the near future which will require a major overhaul of your website.
• 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 Helena.
• Take a look at the websites of your competitors (even those outside Helena) 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.
• Verify the necessity of any 3rd party tracking, live chat, or heat map scripts that are installed.
• Remove any unnecessary development or staging websites.

Semi-annual Helena web maintenance tasks

• Ensure you have access to your domain name and that it isn't expiring soon. This will be helpful when you have to process a domain name renewal.
• Check your hosting account credentials and make sure it's not about to expire.
• Make sure you have access to your DNS.
• Make sure your SSL certificate isn't expiring soon.
• Make sure you have remote backups outside Helena 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.

Monthly Helena website maintenance tasks

• Check for broken links on your website, which negatively impact user experience and SEO.
• Make sure your website isn't having performance issues after recent updates.
• Check Google Search Console for any coverage issues.
• Update some of your service pages or blog articles to keep your website fresh.
• Take a look at your website platform and extensions for any available updates.

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