Brentwood Website Maintenance Services

What is Involved in Maintaining Brentwood, NY Websites

We view website maintenance to be a reactive support service that provides your Brentwood 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 Brentwood web maintenance agencies, including:

• Updating your website platform.
• Keeping apps and plugins updated for better security and functionality.
• Adding new web pages as you release new information.
• Freshen up your blog with new content.
• Rearranging the navigation menu of your Brentwood website.
• Improving page speed to help you pass Google Core Web Vitals.
• Backing up your website's files and databases.
• Changing the look and feel of your website.
• Troubleshooting Google Search Console coverage issues.
• Improving technical SEO by adding structured data, open graph tags, etc.
• Providing solutions to other website problems.

The previously mentioned services are just a glimpse of what we view as possible Brentwood website maintenance services. In fact, Brentwood web support is really anything a web developer or digital marketer does to your website to change it in some manner.

Reactive Brentwood Website Support

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

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Proactive Brentwood Website Support

For website owners in Brentwood 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 Brentwood-area websites, our web support company also offers Albany, Bronx, Brookhaven, Brooklyn, Buffalo, Greece, Manhattan, New York City, Niagara Falls, Queens, Schenectady, Staten Island, Syracuse, White Plains, and Yonkers small businesses and large corporations help with their websites.

Who Needs Web Maintenance in Brentwood, NY

At some point in time, every Brentwood website will require some form of web maintenance. The reason is simply that the internet is always changing. However, we don't charge a lot for Brentwood website maintenance, so you'll be able to afford it! There are a few reasons why a website in Brentwood might need maintenance:

• When a hosting provider upgrades their servers, they may remove older versions of PHP that your Brentwood website was originally developed to support. 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 programmed in the past to work forever without any improvements.
• When an ecommerce platform or a content management system releases new versions, they eventually must deprecate the old versions so their teams can focus on maintaining the newer technologies. 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 Brentwood were looking for ecommerce developers to help migrate their websites.
• 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 can be a time-consuming activity, and often happens because the website owner wasn't being mindful of the first two web support examples, listed above.
• You need to refresh your Brentwood website content when it's outdated or doesn't explain your organization, products, or services well enough for future visitors. This type of website support is critical to ensuring your Brentwood website is benefiting you.

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. Plan your budget and schedules for website support and maintenance based on your Brentwood business's potential future needs.

How We Perform Brentwood, NY 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 Brentwood business after the tasks have been completed.

Most web support services start with an email from you, the owner of the Brentwood website. 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.

The process for Brentwood website support services that come from phone or chat is similar. 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 Web Maintenance Service List for Brentwood, NY Businesses

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

Simple Brentwood Website Updates

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

Brentwood Website Speed Improvements

If your Brentwood 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. This will help improve page load times, which are beneficial to user experience and search engine optimization.

Platform Updates / Security Fixes

It's important to keep your Brentwood website updated if it runs on a CMS like WordPress. Updates help improve security and functionality - and they're usually quick, so it might be a simple task.

Plugin / Extension Updates

It's important to update your Brentwood website's plugins and extensions to reflect the latest changes by the developers. This is similar to the idea of updating the CMS platform since it helps patch security and functionality issues.

Google Search Console Fixes

Did Google Search Console tell you about 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 Brentwood 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 Brentwood, 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.

Add Google Tag Manager

Are you interested in adding Google Tag Manager to your website to help you manage custom scripts more easily? No problem at all! We can add Google Tag Manager to your Brentwood website and even give you a crash course in using Google Tag Manager.

Implement Conversion Tracking

Tracking conversions is important if you want to understand the benefits of online advertising for your Brentwood website. It'll help you understand where your conversions come from, like direct traffic, referral links, organic search, or paid ads.

Image Compression (Optimization)

Is your Brentwood website slow because of large images? No problem at all! We can run all your images through our image compression tools and even setup recurring image compression for newly added images in the future!

Add Live Chat

Is your website ready for live chat? If you'd like us to recommend the best live chat system for your Brentwood 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? 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 Brentwood website, we can setup an invisible or checkbox reCaptcha.

Install a Caching Plugin

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

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.

IP Address Restrictions

Have you been getting fake orders, contact submissions, or live chats from a particular network? Our team can help set up IP restrictions so your website doesn't get hit with as much malicious traffic.

Create Website Backups

Would you like a backup of your Brentwood website? We can help you create one-time or scheduled backups that store locally or at an offsite location.

Create a Development Website

When you're doing a major upgrade or extension installation, you should set up a development or staging site first. 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 Brentwood 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.

Create 301 Redirects

Do you have a new website or are you removing pages? You will want to create 301 redirects for your Brentwood website to prevent broken pages from hurting your SEO. Having broken pages will cost your Brentwood business a lot of organic traffic if they aren't fixed with 301 redirects. We can help you create 301 redirects within .htaccess files, nginx templates, and CMS platforms.

Offer Website Training

Do you need help learning how to make changes to your Brentwood website? If your Brentwood 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 Brentwood, NY Websites

We have a diverse team of web designers and web developers, for Brentwood 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. Because of that, we tend to service only these platforms for Brentwood websites:

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

We've managed Joomla and Magento platforms for Brentwood businesses in the past. However, we chose not to use those platforms so our web support experts could focus on training and support within the more popular platforms.

Questions to Ask Brentwood, NY Website Support Firms

Before signing up for any Brentwood web maintenance package, it is important to ask the Brentwood website maintenance company some questions about how their services work. This will help you get a better idea of the experience you will have with their premium New York website support services before you submit payment and 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?
• When can I expect an average Brentwood web maintenance request to be completed?
• Are you outsourcing your Brentwood website maintenance services?
• What are your Brentwood web support costs?
• Do you have minimum deductions or minimum billable expenses for Brentwood 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 these questions to a Brentwood website services company, you'll gain a better understanding of the future relationship, the security of your website, and the turnaround time for important maintenance requests.

Brentwood, NY Web Maintenance Plans and Tips

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

Read through this list of annual Brentwood web support 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.
• Check if your website platform is releasing a major upgrade in the near future which will require a major overhaul of your website.
• Restore a website backup to make sure the data is enough for full recovery. Also, make sure your backups are stored remotely.
• Look at competitor websites (even those outside of Brentwood) to see if you are missing out on new functionality for your own customers.
• Perform a full security review of your website to ensure nothing has been compromised or left vulnerable.
• 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.
• Take down any unnecessary development or staging sites.

Here is a list of semi-annual Brentwood website support tasks to consider:

• 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.
• Ensure you have access to your hosting account and that it isn't expiring soon.
• Ensure you have access to your DNS in case you need to change anything.
• Find out if your SSL certificate will expire soon.
• Make sure you have remote backups outside Brentwood 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.

Here are a list of monthly Brentwood web maintenance tasks to review:

• 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.
• Update some of your service pages or blog articles to keep your website fresh.
• Check if there are available platform or extension updates.

The Cost of Website Maintenance Service in Brentwood, NY

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