Toms River Website Maintenance Services

What is Involved in Maintaining Toms River, NJ Websites

We view web maintenance to be a reactive support service that provides your Toms River business with the appropriate web developer resources to solve nearly any website problem. There are many examples of website issues that might require service from Toms River web maintenance companies, including:

• Making sure your website's platform is up to date.
• Updating apps and plugins to make them safer and more functional.
• Adding new web pages as you release new information.
• Staying fresh with new blog content.
• Rearranging the navigation menu of your Toms River website.
• Improve your page speed 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.
• Troubleshooting Google Search Console coverage issues.
• 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 Toms River web support might look like. In fact, Toms River website support is really anything a web developer or digital marketer does to your website to change it in some manner.

Reactive Toms River Website Support

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

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Proactive Toms River Website Support

For website owners in Toms River interested in a proactive management service for some of their website upkeep requirements, we are happy to accommodate! 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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In addition to supporting Toms River-area websites, our website support firm also offers Clifton, Edison, Elizabeth, Jersey City, Lakewood, Newark, Trenton, Wayne, and Woodbridge small businesses and large corporations help with their websites.

Who Needs Web Maintenance in Toms River, NJ

At some point in time, every Toms River website will require some form of website maintenance. The reason is simply that the internet is always changing. But don't worry, our Toms River web support costs aren't too high, so you can afford it! Website maintenance in Toms River might be needed for these reasons:

• When a hosting provider upgrades their servers, they may remove older versions of PHP that your Toms River website was originally developed to support. This means you have to refactor your app or upgrade to a newer framework that supports the new PHP version. You can't expect custom web functionality programmed in the past to work forever without any improvements.
• In order to focus on maintaining the newer version of an ecommerce platform or content management system, they eventually have to deprecate the previous releases. 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". Toms River-area ecommerce businesses running Magento 1.x found themselves looking for an ecommerce developer to help migrate their store.
• 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 support examples.
• When the content on your Toms River website, which explains your organization, products, or services becomes outdated and needs to be refreshed to help ensure future visitors receive accurate information about your operation. Keeping your Toms River website up to date is key to its success.

As you can see, there are many reasons a website may require maintenance above and beyond the obvious reasons of just wanting to update something on the website. It is important to understand the future needs of your Toms River business when planning budgets and schedules for website maintenance and support.

How We Perform Toms River, NJ Web Maintenance

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

Most web support services start with an email from you, the owner of the Toms River website. Your email gets routed into our ticket system and automatically assigned to your project manager. Anyone on our team can work on the ticket without delay, resulting in faster turnaround time.

The process for Toms River website support services that come from phone or chat is similar. We route the support request to the most appropriate web developer on our team based on the nature of the work needed on your website.

Example Web Maintenance Service List for Toms River, NJ Businesses

We are often asked for detailed examples of Toms River web maintenance requests that might come up after the launch of a website. Here are several examples of Toms River website maintenance services we've been asked to perform in the past and would be more than happy to provide to you!

Simple Toms River Website Tweaks

Your Toms River website might need a paragraph updated, an image changed, or a new page added. This is just normal, routine web support to keep content fresh for both search engines and visitors.

Toms River Site Performance Improvements

If your Toms River 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. It'll help improve page load times, which will make users and search engines happy.

Platform Upgrades / Security Updates

If your Toms River website is running on a content management system, like WordPress, it is important to keep the platform updated. Updates help improve security and functionality - and they're usually quick, so it might be a simple task.

Extension / Plugin Updates

If your Toms River 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.

Google Search Console Fixes

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 Toms River 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 Toms River, and ecommerce product or some other common data type.

Implement Open Graph 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.

Setup Google Tag Manager

Interested in using Google Tag Manager for managing custom scripts? No problem at all! We can add Google Tag Manager to your Toms River website and even give you a crash course in using Google Tag Manager.

Setup Conversion Tracking

If you are interested in understanding the benefit of an online advertising campaign for your Toms River website, it is important to setup conversion tracking. This will help you understand where your conversions are coming from, such as a Google search or a Bing Ads campaign.

Image Optimization

Do you have a Toms River website that's slow because of large images? That won't be a problem! Using our image compression tools, we can compress all your images and even set up recurring compression for new images!

Setup Live Chat

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

Review Error Log Files

Are your error_log files big? To stop recurring error messages, we can diagnose the problem and update programming code.

Integrate reCaptcha on Contact Forms

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

Setup a Caching Plugin

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

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.

IP Address Restrictions

Is your Toms River website being bombarded with fake orders, contact submissions or live chats from a specific network? If you want to protect your website from malicious traffic, we can help by implementing IP restrictions.

Run Website & Database Backups

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

Create a Testing Website

It is often recommended that you setup a development or staging website before proceeding with a major upgrade or extension installation. Whenever you need help with creating and managing your development 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 Toms River web page? A/B testing can help you decide between two or more design layouts based on the data collected.

Setup 301 Redirects

Have you launched a new website or removed pages? Make sure your Toms River website has 301 redirects to prevent or at least minimize 404 errors. We've seen businesses in and around Toms River lose huge amounts of organic traffic due to widespread broken pages. 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 Toms River website? We'll be happy to help if your Toms River site was built on a platform we work with, such as WordPress or Shopify.

The Platforms We Maintain for Toms River, NJ Websites

We have a diverse team of web designers and web developers, for Toms River businesses, who have been immersed in multiple website platforms over the years. That said, it is better to become a master of a handful of platforms rather than try to specialize in them all. Therefore, we tend to only maintain Toms River websites on these platforms:

• Toms River WordPress Website Support
• Toms River WooCommerce Web Maintenance
• Toms River Shopify Website Maintenance

As a web support company, we used to maintain and support Joomla and Magento websites for Toms River-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.

Questions to Ask Toms River, NJ Web Maintenance Companies

Before signing up for any Toms River web support package, it is important to ask the Toms River website support company some questions about how their services work. This will help you get a better idea of the experience you will have with their professional New Jersey website maintenance services before you submit payment and provide website access. Here are some simple questions to ask:

• What kind of security do you have on your site? Do you scan client websites for security?
• When can I expect an average Toms River web support request to be completed?
• Is your Toms River website support outsourced?
• What are your Toms River web maintenance costs?
• Are there minimum deductions or minimum billable expenses for Toms River 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?

If you ask these questions to a Toms River 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.

Toms River, NJ Website Maintenance Plans and Tips

We are often asked for a web support plan by larger companies in and around Toms River looking to establish routines and procedures within their IT department. We are happy to help your Toms River business develop a website support plan to ensure all aspects of your website, hosting, and domain name are routinely checked to ensure optimum performance and uptime.

Check out this list of annual Toms River web maintenance tasks to review:

• Check if your web hosting provider has newer servers that your account can be migrated to.
• 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 Toms River.
• Look at competitor websites (even those outside of Toms River) to see if you are missing out on new functionality for your own customers.
• Take a look at your website's security to make sure nothing's been compromised.
• 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.
• Take down any unnecessary development or staging sites.

Read through this list of semi-annual Toms River website maintenance tasks to review:

• 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.
• Ensure you have access to your DNS in case you need to change anything.
• 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.

Check out this list of monthly Toms River web support tasks to consider:

• Check for broken links on your website, which negatively impact user experience and SEO.
• Check your website for performance issues after recent updates or changes.
• See if there's anything wrong being reported within Google Search Console.
• Provide some kind of update to your content to keep your website fresh.
• Take a look at your website platform and extensions for any available updates.

The Cost of Website Support Service in Toms River, NJ

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