Akron, OH Website Maintenance Services

Our Akron, OH Website Maintenance Services

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

• Upgrading your website platform to the latest version.
• Installing app or plugin updates to improve security and functionality.
• Adding new web pages as you release new information.
• Freshen up your blog with new content.
• Rearranging your Akron site's navigation menu.
• Improve your page speed to pass Google Core Web Vitals.
• Taking backups of 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.
• Investigating the cause and providing a solution to any other website issue.

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

If you live in Akron, you probably love the Akron Zips basketball team. Go Akron Zips! In addition to supporting Akron-area websites, our website support firm also offers Canton, Cincinnati, Cleveland, Columbus, Dayton, Hamilton, Kettering, Lakewood, Newark, Springfield, Toledo, and Youngstown small businesses and large corporations help with their websites.

Pricing for Akron, OH 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 Akron, OH 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 Akron, OH 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 Akron, OH Websites

With years of experience developing websites for Akron 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. For that reason, our web maintenance company for Akron websites tends to service only the following platforms:

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

In the past, we provided website maintenance and support for Joomla and Magento platforms of Akron 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.

Example Web Support Service List for Akron, OH Businesses

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

Simple Akron Website Changes

A simple change to your Akron website might include updating a paragraph on a page, swapping out an image, or adding a new page. This is just normal, routine web maintenance to keep content fresh for both search engines and visitors.

Akron Website Speed Improvements

Let us check your Akron 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 Upgrades / Security Patches

It's important to keep your Akron 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

If your Akron 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.

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. This will help your search engine rankings, throughout Akron and beyond, by making Google happy!

Implement Structured Data

When you search Google organically, have you noticed reviews or prices in the 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 Akron, and ecommerce product or some other common data type.

Add Open Graph Tags 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

Interested in using Google Tag Manager for managing custom scripts? That won't be a problem! We can add Google Tag Manager to your Akron website and even give you a crash course in using Google Tag Manager.

Setup Conversion Tracking

Tracking conversions is important if you want to understand the benefits of online advertising for your Akron website. This will help you understand where your conversions are coming from, such as a Google search or a Bing Ads campaign.

Optimize Images

Is your Akron 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!

Add 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 Akron business, install the tracking code, and customize the design for your branding, we can do it!

Review Error Logs for Issues

Have you noticed large error_log files on your hosting account? We can help diagnose the issue and update programming code or repair platform issues to prevent recurring error messages.

Reduce Spam with reCaptcha

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

Install a Caching Plugin

Interested in installing a caching plugin for your Akron website, but don't know how to set it up? 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 Akron 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 Akron 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 Akron 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 Akron website. We've seen businesses in and around Akron 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 Akron website? If your Akron site was developed in a platform we work within, such as WordPress or Shopify, we'll be happy to help!

Questions to Ask Akron, OH Website Maintenance Firms

Ask the Akron website support 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 professional Ohio website maintenance services before you submit payment or provide website access. Let's go over some simple questions to ask:

• How do you handle website security? Do you run security scans of customer websites?
• When can I expect an average Akron web support request to be completed?
• Are you outsourcing your Akron website support services?
• How much might it cost to maintain an average Akron website?
• Are there minimum deductions or minimum billable expenses for Akron 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 these questions to a Akron website services firm, you'll gain a better understanding of the future relationship, the security of your website, and the turnaround time for important maintenance requests.

Akron, OH Web Maintenance Plans and Tips

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

Annual Akron website support tasks

• Ask your web hosting company if they have newer servers you can migrate to.
• 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 Akron) to see if you're missing out on anything.
• Take a look at your website's security to make sure nothing's been compromised.
• 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.
• Take down any unnecessary development or staging sites.

Semi-annual Akron web maintenance tasks

• 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.
• 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.
• Check if you have an automated image optimization service running.
• Make sure the website doesn't throw any console errors.

Monthly Akron website maintenance tasks

• Check for broken links on your website, which negatively impact user experience and SEO.
• Check for website performance issues from recent updates or changes on the website.
• 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.
• Take a look at your website platform and extensions for any available updates.

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