Beaverton, OR Website Maintenance Services

What is Involved in Maintaining Beaverton, OR Websites

We view web maintenance to be a reactive support service that provides your Beaverton business with the appropriate web developer resources to solve nearly any website problem. These are some examples of website issues that Beaverton website support firms might fix:

• Making sure your website's platform is up to date.
• 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 Beaverton site's navigation menu.
• Improving page speed to help you pass Google Core Web Vitals.
• Take backups of 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.
• Providing a solution to any other website problem.

The previously mentioned services are just a glimpse of what we view as possible Beaverton web maintenance services. In fact, Beaverton website maintenance is basically anything a web developer or digital marketer does to your website.

Reactive Beaverton Website Support

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

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Proactive Beaverton Website Support

For website owners in Beaverton interested in a proactive management service for some of their website upkeep requirements, we are happy to accommodate! 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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In addition to supporting Beaverton-area websites, our website maintenance agency also offers Albany, Aloha, Corvallis, Eugene, Gresham, Medford, Portland, Redmond, Salem, Springfield, and Tigard small businesses and large corporations help with their websites.

Who Needs Website Support in Beaverton, OR

At some point in time, every Beaverton website will require some form of web maintenance. It's just that the internet changes all the time. But don't worry, our Beaverton web maintenance costs aren't too high, so you can afford it! Website maintenance in Beaverton might be needed for these reasons:

• When a hosting provider upgrades their servers, they may remove older versions of PHP that your Beaverton 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. There's no way you can expect custom web functionality to work forever.
• 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". As a result, Magento 1.x ecommerce businesses in Beaverton 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.
• To ensure future visitors to your Beaverton website receive accurate information about your organization, products, or services, your Beaverton website content needs to be refreshed. This type of web support is critical to ensuring your Beaverton website is benefiting you.

Above and beyond just updating something, there are plenty of reasons why a website might need maintenance. When planning budgets and schedules for website support and support, consider your Beaverton business's potential future needs.

How We Perform Beaverton, OR 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 Beaverton business after the tasks have been completed.

Most Beaverton web 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. Anyone on our team can work on the ticket without delay, resulting in faster turnaround time.

The process for Beaverton website support 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 Maintenance Service List for Beaverton, OR Businesses

We are often asked for detailed examples of Beaverton web maintenance requests that might come up after the launch of a website. We've performed these Beaverton website maintenance services in the past, and would be happy to do it for you too!

Simple Beaverton Website Tweaks

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

Beaverton Page Speed Improvements

Let us check your Beaverton website for hosting, caching, image optimization, console errors, broken links, poor database queries, and other potential problems that might be impacting your page speed. This will help improve page load times, which are beneficial to user experience and search engine optimization.

Platform Upgrades / Security Updates

It's important to keep your Beaverton 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

It's important to update plugins and extensions on your Beaverton website if they were developed and maintained by a third-party. This is similar to the idea of updating the CMS platform since it helps patch security and functionality issues.

Fixing Search Console Issues

Has Google Search Console told you there's 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 Beaverton and beyond!

Setup 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 Beaverton, and ecommerce product or some other common data type.

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 Beaverton website and even give you a crash course in using Google Tag Manager.

Setup Conversion Tracking

It's important to setup conversion tracking for your Beaverton website if you want to understand the benefits of online advertising. 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 Beaverton website? That won't be a problem! 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

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

Resolve Errors in Log Files

Do you have a lot of 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

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

Implement a Caching Plugin

Looking to install a caching plugin on your Beaverton website, but not sure how to configure it? We can help recommend caching plugins, or just install and configure them for you!

Send Website Emails Over SMTP

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 Malicious IP Addresses

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

Is it time to make a backup of your Beaverton website? We can help you create one-time or scheduled backups that store locally or at an offsite location.

Create a Testing Website

Before you do a major update or extension installation, it's a good idea to setup a development or staging site. 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 Beaverton web page? We can help you run A/B testing to help you decide which design or content layouts are best.

Create 301 Redirects

Have you launched a new website or removed pages? You will want to create 301 redirects for your Beaverton website to prevent broken pages from hurting your SEO. Having broken pages will cost your Beaverton 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.

Train You on Your Website

Do you need help learning how to make changes to your Beaverton website? If your Beaverton 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 Beaverton, OR Websites

We have a diverse team of web designers and web developers, for Beaverton businesses, who have been immersed in multiple website platforms over the years. Nevertheless, mastering a handful of platforms is better than trying to be an expert on everything. Therefore, we tend to only maintain Beaverton websites on these platforms:

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

As a web support company, we used to maintain and support Joomla and Magento websites for Beaverton-area businesses. 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 Beaverton, OR Web Maintenance Companies

Before signing up for any Beaverton web support package, it is important to ask the Beaverton website support company some questions about how their services work. By doing this, you'll be able to better understand your future experience with their professional Oregon website maintenance services before you submit payment or provide website access. Here are some simple questions to ask:

• What kind of security do you have on your site? Do you scan client websites for security?
• When can I expect an average Beaverton web support request to be completed?
• Do you outsource your Beaverton website support services?
• How much might it cost to maintain an average Beaverton website?
• Do you have minimum deductions or minimum billable expenses for Beaverton website updates?
• At what times of the day are you working and able to take our maintenance requests?
• When there are new updates on my platform, will you let me know?

If you ask these questions to a Beaverton 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.

Beaverton, OR Web Maintenance Plans and Tips

We are often asked for a website maintenance plan by larger companies in and around Beaverton looking to establish routines and procedures within their IT department. Whether it's your website, hosting, or domain name, we'll make sure your Beaverton business has a web support plan to ensure optimum performance.

Check out this list of annual Beaverton website support tasks to review:

• 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 Beaverton.
• Take a look at the websites of your competitors (even those outside Beaverton) to see if you're missing out on anything.
• 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.
• 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 Beaverton web maintenance 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.
• Ensure you have access to your hosting account and that it isn't expiring soon.
• Make sure you have access to your DNS.
• Make sure your SSL certificate isn't expiring 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.

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

• Check for broken links on your website, which negatively impact user experience and SEO.
• 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 Web Support Service in Beaverton, OR

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