Salem, NH Website Maintenance Services

Our Salem, NH Website Maintenance Services

We see web maintenance as a reactive support service where we provide your Salem business with the right web developer resources to fix just about any problem. Here are a few examples of website problems that might need Salem website maintenance:

• Upgrading your website platform to the latest version.
• Keeping apps and plugins updated for better security and functionality.
• Adding new pages whenever you release something new.
• Freshen up your blog with new content.
• Rearranging your Salem site's navigation menu.
• Improving page speed to help you pass Google Core Web Vitals.
• Taking 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.

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

In addition to supporting Salem-area websites, our web maintenance agency also offers Bedford, Concord, Durham, Manchester, Milford, Nashua, Portsmouth, Rochester, small businesses and large corporations help with their websites.

Pricing for Salem, NH 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 Salem, NH 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 Salem, NH 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 Salem, NH Websites

With years of experience developing websites for Salem businesses (and those in other areas of the country), our web designers and web developers have been immersed in 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 Salem websites tends to service only the following platforms:

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

In the past, we provided website maintenance and support for Joomla and Magento platforms of Salem businesses. However, we chose not to use those platforms so our web support experts could focus on training and support within the more popular platforms.

Example Website Support Service List for Salem, NH Businesses

After the launch of a website, we're often asked for detailed examples of Salem web maintenance requests. The following are some examples of Salem web maintenance services we've provided in the past.

Simple Salem Website Changes

Changes to your Salem 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 maintenance.

Salem Website Speed Improvements

Let us check your Salem website for hosting, caching, image optimization, console errors, broken links, poor database queries, and other potential problems that might be impacting your page speed. This will help improve page load times, which are beneficial to user experience and search engine optimization.

Platform Upgrades / Security Patches

It's important to keep your Salem 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 Salem 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 Google Search Console tell you about a coverage problem? If so, we can review the coverage issues, fix the problems, and update you on the results. This will help your search engine rankings, throughout Salem and beyond, by making Google happy!

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 Salem, and ecommerce product or some other common data type.

Add Open Graph to Your Website

When people share links of your Salem 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

Interested in using Google Tag Manager for managing custom scripts? Not a problem! We can add Google Tag Manager to your Salem website and even give you a crash course in using Google Tag Manager.

Setup Conversion Tracking

It's important to setup conversion tracking for your Salem website if you want to understand the benefits of online advertising. This will help you understand where your conversions are coming from, such as a Google search or a Bing Ads campaign.

Image Compression (Optimization)

Do you have a Salem website that's 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!

Setup Live Chat

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

Resolve Errors in Log Files

Have you noticed large 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 Salem website, we can setup an invisible or checkbox reCaptcha.

Install a Caching Plugin

Are you interested in installing a caching plugin in your Salem website, but not sure how to properly configure the settings for best website performance? We can help recommend caching plugins, or just install and configure them for you!

Setup SMTP Email

To help improve email deliverability, we can configure your contact form and website platform to send emails through an SMTP account instead of PHP mail.

Restrict IP Addresses

Is your Salem website being bombarded with fake orders, contact submissions or live chats from a specific 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 Salem 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 Salem 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 Salem website. We've seen businesses in and around Salem 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 Salem website? If your Salem site was developed in a platform we work within, such as WordPress or Shopify, we'll be happy to help!

Questions to Ask Salem, NH Web Support Agencies

Ask the Salem web maintenance company some questions about their services before you sign up for a package. It'll give you a better idea of the experience you'll have with their premium New Hampshire web support services prior to making payment and providing 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?
• What's the turnaround time for Salem website support?
• Are you outsourcing your Salem web maintenance services?
• How much might it cost to maintain an average Salem website?
• Do you have minimum deductions or minimum billable expenses for Salem website updates?
• What are your normal hours of operation?
• When there are new updates on my platform, will you let me know?

If you ask any Salem website services agency these questions before subscribing to their website 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.

Salem, NH Web Support Plans and Tips

Companies in and around Salem often ask us for a website support plan to establish routines and procedures. We can help your Salem business set up a web maintenance plan so all aspects of your website, hosting, and domain name are monitored regularly.

Annual Salem website maintenance tasks

• 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.
• 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 Salem) to see if you're missing out on anything.
• 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.
• 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.

Semi-annual Salem web support tasks

• 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.
• Find out if your SSL certificate will expire soon.
• Verify your website backup schedule is working properly, and you have remote backups outside of Salem.
• Check if you have an automated image optimization service running.
• Make sure the website doesn't throw any console errors.

Monthly Salem website support 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.
• 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.
• Take a look at your website platform and extensions for any available updates.

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