Staten Island Website Maintenance Services

What is Involved in Maintaining Staten Island, NY Websites

We see website maintenance as a reactive support service where we provide your Staten Island business with the right web developer resources to fix just about any problem. These are some examples of website issues that Staten Island web support agencies might fix:

• Making sure your website's platform is up to date.
• 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 your Staten Island site's navigation menu.
• Improve your page speed to pass Google Core Web Vitals.
• Backing up your website's files and databases.
• Modifying the look and feel of your website's design.
• Fixing Google Search Console coverage issues.
• Enhancing technical SEO with structured data, open graph tags, etc.
• Providing a solution to any other website problem.

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

Reactive Staten Island Website Support

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

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Proactive Staten Island Website Support

We're happy to help website owners in Staten Island 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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Who Needs Web Support in Staten Island, NY

There will come a time when every Staten Island website needs some sort of maintenance. It's just that the internet changes all the time. But don't worry, our Staten Island website support costs aren't too high, so you can afford it! There are a few reasons why a website in Staten Island might need maintenance:

• When a hosting provider upgrades their servers, they may remove older versions of PHP that your Staten Island 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. There's no way you can expect custom web functionality to work forever.
• 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 had reached "End of Life" status and wouldn't be maintained or updated. Staten Island-area ecommerce businesses running Magento 1.x found themselves looking for an ecommerce developer to help migrate their store.
• An owner of a Staten Island website who has been infected by malware or some other kind of malicious activity needs to check the site for exploits and clean it up. This is time-consuming, and often happens when the website owner isn't paying attention to the first two web maintenance examples.
• To ensure future visitors to your Staten Island website receive accurate information about your organization, products, or services, your Staten Island website content needs to be refreshed. Keeping your Staten Island website up to date is key to its success.

Above and beyond just updating something, there are plenty of reasons why a website might need maintenance. It is important to understand the future needs of your Staten Island business when planning budgets and schedules for website maintenance and support.

How We Perform Staten Island, NY Website Maintenance

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

Most Staten Island website support services start with an email from the website owner. Your email gets routed into our ticket system and automatically 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 Staten Island web maintenance 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 Staten Island, NY Businesses

After the launch of a website, we're often asked for detailed examples of Staten Island website maintenance requests. We've performed these Staten Island web support services in the past, and would be happy to do it for you too!

Simple Staten Island Website Tweaks

Changes to your Staten Island 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.

Staten Island Website Speed Improvements

Let us check your Staten Island website for hosting, caching, image optimization, console errors, broken links, poor database queries, and other potential problems that might be impacting your page speed. It'll help improve page load times, which will make users and search engines happy.

Platform Updates / Security Fixes

If your Staten Island website is running on a content management system, like WordPress, it is important to keep the platform updated. The updates improve security and functionality - sometimes they're quick, so it's an easy win!

Extension / Plugin Updates

It's important to update plugins and extensions on your Staten Island website if they were developed and maintained by a third-party. The idea is similar to updating the CMS platform since it fixes security and functionality problems.

Fixing Search Console Issues

Did you get a report from Google Search Console telling you about a coverage issue? 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 Staten Island and beyond!

Implement Structured Data

Do you ever see product prices or reviews in Google organic search results? This is structured data, which is a standardized way to describe the content on a webpage, whether it's a local Staten Island business, or an ecommerce product.

Add Open Graph to 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

Would you like to manage custom scripts more easily with Google Tag Manager? That won't be a problem! We can add Google Tag Manager to your Staten Island website and even give you a crash course in using Google Tag Manager.

Add Conversion Tracking

Tracking conversions is important if you want to understand the benefits of online advertising for your Staten Island website. Then you'll know where your conversions come from, whether it be direct traffic, organic search, or paid ads.

Image Compression (Optimization)

Is your Staten Island 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

Is your website ready for live chat? Our experts can help you pick the right live chat system, install the tracking code, and customize the design to match your Staten Island business branding!

Review Error Logs for Issues

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

Reduce Spam with reCaptcha

We can set up a checkbox or invisible reCaptcha to help minimize unwanted submissions on your Staten Island website.

Implement a Caching Plugin

Are you interested in installing a caching plugin in your Staten Island 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!

Send Website Emails Over SMTP

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

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.

Run Website & Database Backups

Would you like a backup of your Staten Island website? Let us help you create one-time or scheduled backups that you can store locally or offsite.

Create a Staging 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 Staten Island web design changes based on statistical data? A/B testing can help you decide between two or more design layouts based on the data collected.

Setup 301 Redirects

Are you launching a new website or removing pages from your website? Make sure your Staten Island website has 301 redirects to prevent or at least minimize 404 errors. Having broken pages will cost your Staten Island business a lot of organic traffic if they aren't fixed with 301 redirects. We can help you set up 301 redirects in .htaccess files, nginx templates, and CMS platforms.

Offer Website Training

Want to learn how to make simple edits to your Staten Island website? If your Staten Island 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 Staten Island, NY Websites

With years of experience developing websites for Staten Island businesses (and those in other areas of the country), our web designers and web developers have been immersed in multiple platforms. Nevertheless, mastering a handful of platforms is better than trying to be an expert on everything. Therefore, we tend to only maintain Staten Island websites on these platforms:

• Staten Island WordPress Web Maintenance
• Staten Island WooCommerce Website Maintenance
• Staten Island Shopify Web Support

We've managed Joomla and Magento platforms for Staten Island businesses in the past. However, we chose to move away from those platforms to allow our website support experts to focus more heavily on training and support within the other systems.

Questions to Ask Staten Island, NY Web Maintenance Agencies

Ask the Staten Island website maintenance company some questions about their services before you sign up for a package. By doing this, you'll be able to better understand your future experience with their premium New York website support services before you submit payment or provide website access. Here are 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 Staten Island web maintenance request to be completed?
• Are you outsourcing your Staten Island website maintenance services?
• How much might it cost to maintain an average Staten Island website?
• Are there minimum deductions or minimum billable expenses for Staten Island website updates?
• Can you tell me what your normal business hours are?
• Will you keep me informed about new updates within my platform?

If you ask any Staten Island website services agency these questions before subscribing to their website support 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.

Staten Island, NY Web Maintenance Plans and Tips

Companies in and around Staten Island often ask us for a web maintenance plan to establish routines and procedures. Whether it's your website, hosting, or domain name, we'll make sure your Staten Island business has a website maintenance plan to ensure optimum performance.

Check out this list of annual Staten Island web support tasks to review:

• 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.
• Take a look at the websites of your competitors (even those outside Staten Island) to see if you're missing out on anything.
• Take a look at your website's security to make sure nothing's been compromised.
• Make sure structured data, open graph, and social links are working.
• Verify the necessity of any 3rd party tracking, live chat, or heat map scripts that are installed.
• Delete any development or staging websites you don't need.

Read through this list of semi-annual Staten Island website support tasks to review:

• Make sure you have access to your domain name and it's not about to expire. When you have to renew your domain name, this will come in handy.
• Check your hosting account credentials and make sure it's not about to expire.
• Make sure you have access to your DNS.
• Check if your SSL certificate will be expiring in the near future.
• Make sure you have remote backups outside Staten Island 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.

Check out this list of monthly Staten Island web maintenance tasks to consider:

• 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.
• 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.
• See if there are any updates for your website platform or extensions.

The Cost of Website Maintenance Service in Staten Island, NY

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