Santa Fe, NM Website Maintenance Services

What is Involved in Maintaining Santa Fe, NM Websites

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

• Updating your website platform.
• 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 Santa Fe website'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.
• Fixing site audit issues or Google Search Console coverage problems.
• Enhancing technical SEO with structured data, open graph tags, etc.
• Providing solutions to other website problems.

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

Reactive Santa Fe Website Support

We consider web support a reactive service because most Santa Fe website owners don't want a developer messing with their website without their permission. You can count on our agency to keep your Santa Fe website running smoothly. However, we can provide some proactive web maintenance services for your Santa Fe website.

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Proactive Santa Fe Website Support

We're happy to help website owners in Santa Fe 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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In addition to supporting Santa Fe-area websites, our website maintenance agency also offers Albuquerque, Carlsbad, Las Cruces, Roswell, small businesses and large corporations help with their websites.

Who Needs Website Support in Santa Fe, NM

There will come a time when every Santa Fe website needs some sort of maintenance. It's because the internet is always changing. However, we don't charge a lot for Santa Fe web maintenance, so you'll be able to afford it! There are a few reasons why a website in Santa Fe might need maintenance:

• Hosting companies sometimes upgrade their servers, removing PHP versions that were used by your Santa Fe website. That means you'll have to refactor your app or upgrade to a newer framework that supports the latest PHP release. You can't expect custom web functionality from the past 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 Santa Fe were looking for ecommerce developers to help migrate their websites.
• When a website owner has become a victim of malware or some other form of malicious activity, the Santa Fe website will need to be reviewed for security exploits and cleaned of malware. 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 Santa Fe website content when it's outdated or doesn't explain your organization, products, or services well enough for future visitors. Maintaining your Santa Fe 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. Plan your budget and schedules for website support and maintenance based on your Santa Fe business's potential future needs.

How We Perform Santa Fe, NM Website Maintenance

It's our job to understand your web support needs, schedule your work in a timely fashion, and follow up with your Santa Fe business after the work is done.

A Santa Fe website support service usually starts with an email from you. 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 Santa Fe web 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 Website Maintenance Service List for Santa Fe, NM Businesses

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

Simple Santa Fe Website Updates

Changes to your Santa Fe 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 web maintenance.

Santa Fe Website Speed Improvements

We can analyze your Santa Fe website for hosting issues, caching issues, unoptimized images, console errors, broken links, poor queries, and more if it's slow. User experience and SEO will both benefit from better page load times.

Platform Upgrades / Security Updates

It's important to keep your Santa Fe website updated if it runs on a CMS like WordPress. This helps improve security and functionality - sometimes the updates are relatively quick to perform, which is a win-win!

Extension / Plugin Updates

It's important to update your Santa Fe 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 fix the coverage issues, and let you know how it went. Make Google happy, and you'll rank higher throughout Santa Fe and beyond!

Add 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 Santa Fe business, or an ecommerce product.

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 Santa Fe 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 Santa Fe website and teach you how to use it.

Setup Conversion Tracking

It's important to setup conversion tracking for your Santa Fe 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.

Image Optimization

Is your Santa Fe 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!

Setup Live Chat

Is your website ready for live chat? If you'd like us to recommend the best live chat system for your Santa Fe 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? To stop recurring error messages, we can diagnose the problem and update programming code.

Setup reCaptcha on Forms

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

Implement a Caching Plugin

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

Send Website Emails Over SMTP

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 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.

Run Website & Database Backups

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

Create a Testing Website

Before you do a major update or extension installation, it's a good idea to setup a development or staging site. Whenever you need help with creating and managing your development site, just let us know!

Create A/B Testing Rules

Are you a fan of making Santa Fe web design changes based on statistical data? 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.

Add 301 Redirects

Are you launching a new website or removing pages from your website? You should create 301 redirects for your Santa Fe website. We've seen businesses in and around Santa Fe 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 Santa Fe website? If your Santa Fe 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 Santa Fe, NM Websites

With years of experience developing websites for Santa Fe 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. Because of that, we tend to service only these platforms for Santa Fe websites:

• Santa Fe WordPress Web Maintenance
• Santa Fe WooCommerce Website Maintenance
• Santa Fe Shopify Web Support

As a website support company, we used to maintain and support Joomla and Magento websites for Santa Fe-area businesses. However, we chose not to use those platforms so our website maintenance experts could focus on training and support within the more popular platforms.

Questions to Ask Santa Fe, NM Web Support Companies

Ask the Santa Fe 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 expert New Mexico website maintenance services prior to making payment and providing 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 Santa Fe web support?
• Are you outsourcing your Santa Fe website support services?
• How much does Santa Fe web maintenance cost?
• Are there any minimum deductions or minimum billable expenses for Santa Fe 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?

We find it beneficial to run these questions by any Santa Fe website services firm before subscribing to their web support 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.

Santa Fe, NM Website Support Plans and Tips

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

Read through this list of annual Santa Fe website 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.
• Restore a website backup to make sure the data is enough for full recovery. Also, make sure your backups are stored remotely.
• Check out competitor sites (even those outside of Santa Fe) to see if you're missing out on any competitive advantages they have over you.
• 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.
• Remove any unnecessary development or staging websites.

Read through this list of semi-annual Santa Fe web 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 have access to your DNS.
• Find out if your SSL certificate will expire soon.
• Make sure your website backup schedule is working and you have remote backups.
• If you have an automated image optimization service, verify it is working properly.
• See if there are any console errors on the website.

Read through this list of monthly Santa Fe website support 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.
• 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.

The Cost of Web Maintenance Service in Santa Fe, NM

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