Cleveland, OH Website Maintenance Services

What is Involved in Maintaining Cleveland, OH Websites

Web maintenance is a reactive support service that connects you with the right web developer to fix nearly any website issue. There are many examples of website issues that might require service from Cleveland website support firms, including:

• Updating your website platform.
• Updating apps and plugins to make them safer and more functional.
• Adding new web pages as you release new information.
• Writing new blog content to help you stay fresh.
• Rearranging your Cleveland website's navigation menu.
• Making your page faster to 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.
• Adding structured data, open graph tags, etc.
• Investigating the cause and providing a solution to any other website issue.

These are just a few of the Cleveland web maintenance services we offer. In fact, Cleveland website maintenance is really anything a web developer or digital marketer does to your website to change it in some manner.

Reactive Cleveland Website Support

We consider web support a reactive service because most Cleveland website owners don't want a developer messing with their website without their permission. You can count on our agency to keep your Cleveland website running smoothly. There are some web maintenance services we can provide your Cleveland website in a proactive manner though.

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Proactive Cleveland Website Support

We're happy to help website owners in Cleveland who need proactive website upkeep! 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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If you live in Cleveland, you probably love the Cleveland Browns football team. Go Cleveland Browns! In addition to supporting Cleveland-area websites, our website maintenance agency also offers Akron, Canton, Cincinnati, Columbus, Dayton, Hamilton, Kettering, Lakewood, Newark, Springfield, Toledo, and Youngstown small businesses and large corporations help with their websites.

Who Needs Website Support in Cleveland, OH

Every Cleveland website will need some web maintenance at some point. The reason is simply that the internet is always changing. However, we don't charge a lot for Cleveland web maintenance, so you'll be able to afford it! Website maintenance in Cleveland might be needed for these reasons:

• When a hosting provider upgrades their servers, they may remove older versions of PHP that your Cleveland website was originally developed to support. When this happens, you need to refactor your application or upgrade to a newer framework that supports the newer PHP version. 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 had reached "End of Life" status and wouldn't be maintained or updated. As a result, Magento 1.x ecommerce businesses in Cleveland 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. In most cases, this happens because the website owner didn't pay attention to the first two website maintenance examples.
• When the content on your Cleveland 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. Maintaining your Cleveland website is key to making sure it's working for 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 Cleveland business's potential future needs.

How We Perform Cleveland, OH Web Support

Our professional website support team puts in a lot of effort to understand your needs, schedule your work on time, and follow up with your Cleveland business after the work is done.

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

The process for Cleveland website maintenance services that come from phone or chat is similar. The support request is entered into our ticket system by the person in the conversation with you, which allows the work order to be routed to the most appropriate web developer on our team.

Example Web Support Service List for Cleveland, OH Businesses

We're often asked for examples of Cleveland website support requests after a website launches. Here are several examples of Cleveland web maintenance services we've been asked to perform in the past and would be more than happy to provide to you!

Simple Cleveland Website Updates

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

Cleveland Page Speed Improvements

We can analyze your Cleveland 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 Updates / Security Fixes

It's important to keep your Cleveland 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 Upgrades

If your Cleveland 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. It's similar to 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 can fix the coverage issues, and let you know how it went. Make Google happy, and you'll rank higher throughout Cleveland and beyond!

Setup 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 Cleveland business, or an ecommerce product.

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

Would you like to manage custom scripts more easily with Google Tag Manager? Not a problem! We can add Google Tag Manager to your Cleveland website and even teach you how to use it.

Implement Conversion Tracking

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

Image Compression (Optimization)

Are large images slowing down your Cleveland website? Not 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

Is your website ready for live chat? If you'd like us to recommend the best live chat system for your Cleveland business, install the tracking code, and customize the design for your branding, we can do it!

Resolve Errors in Log Files

Have you noticed large error_log files on your hosting account? If you're getting recurring error messages, we can update programming code or fix platform issues.

Integrate reCaptcha on Contact Forms

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

Implement a Caching Plugin

Looking to install a caching plugin on your Cleveland website, but not sure how to configure it? We can help recommend caching plugins, or just 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

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.

Backup Your Website Files

Do you want to create a backup of your Cleveland website? Backups can be performed one-time, or scheduled at specific intervals, and stored locally or offsite.

Create a Development Website

When you're doing a major upgrade or extension installation, you should set up a development or staging site first. Just let us know if you need help creating and managing that development / staging site!

Create A/B Testing Rules

Do you prefer to make design changes based on statistical data regarding how users interact with your Cleveland web page? A/B testing can help you decide between two or more design layouts based on the data collected.

Add 301 Redirects

Do you have a new website or are you removing pages? You will want to create 301 redirects for your Cleveland website to prevent broken pages from hurting your SEO. Having broken pages will cost your Cleveland 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.

Provide Website Training

Do you need help learning how to make changes to your Cleveland website? If your Cleveland 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 Cleveland, OH Websites

For Cleveland businesses, we have a team of web designers and web developers who have experience with multiple platforms. 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 Cleveland websites:

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

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

Questions to Ask Cleveland, OH Website Maintenance Agencies

If you're thinking about signing up for any Cleveland website support package, make sure you ask the company how their services work. This will help you get a better idea of the experience you will have with their premium Ohio web maintenance services before you submit payment and provide website access. You can ask these simple questions:

• What kind of security do you have on your site? Do you scan client websites for security?
• When can I expect an average Cleveland website maintenance request to be completed?
• Do you outsource your Cleveland web support services?
• How much does Cleveland website support cost?
• Are there any minimum deductions or minimum billable expenses for Cleveland 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 Cleveland 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.

Cleveland, OH Website Maintenance Plans and Tips

Larger companies in and around Cleveland often ask us for a web support plan. We are happy to help your Cleveland 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.

Read through this list of annual Cleveland web maintenance tasks to consider:

• 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.
• Attempt to restore a website backup to ensure the data being stored is sufficient for full recovery. Also make sure you are storing backups in a remote location away from Cleveland.
• Check out competitor sites (even those outside of Cleveland) 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.
• 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.

Check out this list of semi-annual Cleveland web 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 that your hosting account isn't about to expire and you can access it.
• 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 your website backup schedule is working and you have remote backups.
• If you have an automated image optimization service, verify it is working properly.
• Check if the website is throwing any console errors.

Check out this list of monthly Cleveland website maintenance tasks to consider:

• Look for broken links on your website, which hurts SEO and user experience.
• 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.
• See if there are any updates for your website platform or extensions.

The Cost of Web Support Service in Cleveland, OH

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