Springfield, OH Website Maintenance Services

What is Involved in Maintaining Springfield, OH Websites

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

• 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.
• Staying fresh with new blog content.
• Rearranging the navigation menu of your Springfield website.
• Improving page speed to help you pass Google Core Web Vitals.
• Take backups of 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 solutions to other website problems.

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

Reactive Springfield Website Support

We consider website maintenance a reactive service because most Springfield website owners don't want a developer messing with their website without their permission. When you choose to have our agency maintain your Springfield website, we'll be your web support team on standby for any request. There are some website support services we can provide your Springfield website in a proactive manner though.

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Proactive Springfield Website Support

Interested in a proactive website management service for some of your website upkeep? We're happy to help! There are several web maintenance services, including platform upgrades, app / extension updates, website backups, performance monitoring, and broken link monitoring, that our website maintainers can handle in a proactive manner.

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In addition to supporting Springfield-area websites, our web maintenance company also offers Akron, Canton, Cincinnati, Cleveland, Columbus, Dayton, Hamilton, Kettering, Lakewood, Newark, Toledo, and Youngstown small businesses and large corporations help with their websites.

Who Needs Web Support in Springfield, OH

There will come a time when every Springfield website needs some sort of maintenance. It's because the internet is always changing. Not to worry though, our Springfield website support cost isn't expensive so it should be affordable for you to maintain your website! Here are some common reasons why a website in Springfield might require web maintenance services:

• When a hosting provider upgrades their servers, they may remove older versions of PHP that your Springfield website was originally developed to support. This means you have to refactor your app or upgrade to a newer framework that supports the new PHP version. 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 was no longer maintained by Magento after it reached "End of Life". Springfield-area ecommerce businesses running Magento 1.x found themselves looking for an ecommerce developer to help migrate their store.
• An owner of a Springfield 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 website maintenance examples.
• You need to refresh your Springfield website content when it's outdated or doesn't explain your organization, products, or services well enough for future visitors. Maintaining your Springfield 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 Springfield business's potential future needs.

How We Perform Springfield, OH Web Support

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

A Springfield web maintenance service usually starts with an email from you. That email is routed into our ticket system and automatically assigned to the project manager on your account. From there, anyone on our team can work on the ticket without delay, leading to faster turnaround time and simplified internal communication.

The process for Springfield web maintenance services that come from phone or chat is similar. We route the support request to the most appropriate web developer on our team based on the nature of the work needed on your website.

Example Website Maintenance Service List for Springfield, OH Businesses

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

Simple Springfield Website Changes

A simple change to your Springfield 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.

Springfield Site Performance Improvements

If your Springfield 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 Upgrades / Security Updates

If your Springfield 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 your Springfield 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.

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

Setup 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 of describing content on the web, whether it's a local business in Springfield or an ecommerce product.

Add Open Graph Tags on 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 Springfield business.

Add Google Tag Manager

Are you interested in adding Google Tag Manager to your website to help you manage custom scripts more easily? That won't be a problem! We'll happily install Google Tag Manager on your Springfield website and teach you how to use it.

Setup Conversion Tracking

It's important to setup conversion tracking for your Springfield website if you want to understand the benefits of online advertising. This will help you understand where your conversions are coming from, such as a Google search or a Bing Ads campaign.

Image Compression (Optimization)

Do you have a Springfield website that's 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!

Integrate a Live Chat

Would you like to try live chat? We can make recommendations on the best live chat systems for your business requirements, install the tracking code, and configure the design to match the branding of your Springfield business!

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.

Setup reCaptcha on Forms

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

Install a Caching Plugin

Interested in installing a caching plugin for your Springfield website, but don't know how to set it up? We can help recommend caching plugins, or just 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 IP Addresses

Is your Springfield website being bombarded with fake orders, contact submissions or live chats from a specific 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 Springfield website? We can help you create one-time or scheduled backups that store locally or at an offsite location.

Create a Testing Website

It is often recommended that you setup a development or staging website before proceeding with a major upgrade or extension installation. Just let us know if you need help creating and managing that development / staging site!

Create A/B Testing Rules

Are you a fan of making Springfield 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.

Create 301 Redirects

Have you launched a new website or removed pages? Make sure your Springfield website has 301 redirects to prevent or at least minimize 404 errors. We've seen businesses in and around Springfield 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.

Offer Website Training

Need help learning how to make simple changes to your Springfield website? If your Springfield 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 Springfield, OH Websites

With years of experience developing websites for Springfield 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. For that reason, our website maintenance agency for Springfield websites tends to service only the following platforms:

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

As a website maintenance firm, we used to maintain and support Joomla and Magento websites for Springfield-area businesses. 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 Springfield, OH Web Maintenance Firms

Ask the Springfield web support 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 professional Ohio web maintenance services prior to making payment and providing 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 Springfield web maintenance request to be completed?
• Is your Springfield website maintenance outsourced?
• What are your Springfield web support costs?
• Do you have minimum deductions or minimum billable expenses for Springfield website updates?
• At what times of the day are you working and able to take our maintenance requests?
• Will you keep me informed about new updates within my platform?

If you ask any Springfield website services agency these questions before subscribing to their web maintenance 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.

Springfield, OH Website Maintenance Plans and Tips

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

Here is a list of annual Springfield web maintenance tasks to review:

• 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.
• Try restoring a website backup to make sure the data is good enough for a full recovery. Also, make sure your backups are stored somewhere else besides Springfield.
• Look at competitor websites (even those outside of Springfield) 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.
• Ensure that structured data, open graph, and social links are all 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 Springfield web maintenance 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.
• 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.
• Check if you have an automated image optimization service running.
• Check if the website is throwing any console errors.

Read through this list of monthly Springfield website maintenance tasks to review:

• Ensure your website doesn't have any broken links, which affect user experience and SEO.
• Check for website performance issues from recent updates or changes on the website.
• Check Google Search Console for any coverage issues.
• 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 Web Support Service in Springfield, OH

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