Corvallis, OR Website Maintenance Services

What is Involved in Maintaining Corvallis, OR 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 Corvallis website support firms, including:

• Upgrading your website platform to the latest version.
• Updating apps and plugins to make them safer and more functional.
• Adding new pages whenever you release something new.
• Writing new blog content to help you stay fresh.
• Rearranging the navigation menu of your Corvallis website.
• Improving page speed to help you 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.
• Providing a solution to any other website problem.

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

Reactive Corvallis Website Support

We consider web support a reactive service because most Corvallis website owners don't want a developer messing with their website without their permission. Our agency will be your web support team on standby for any questions you have. There are some web maintenance services we can provide your Corvallis website in a proactive manner though.

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Proactive Corvallis Website Support

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

Who Needs Website Support in Corvallis, OR

Every Corvallis website will need some web maintenance at some point. The reason is simply that the internet is always changing. Not to worry though, our Corvallis web maintenance cost isn't expensive so it should be affordable for you to maintain your website! Website maintenance in Corvallis might be needed for these reasons:

• Hosting companies sometimes upgrade their servers, removing PHP versions that were used by your Corvallis website. 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 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 had reached "End of Life" status and wouldn't be maintained or updated. As a result, Magento 1.x ecommerce businesses in Corvallis 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 Corvallis website receive accurate information about your organization, products, or services, your Corvallis website content needs to be refreshed. Maintaining your Corvallis 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. It is important to understand the future needs of your Corvallis business when planning budgets and schedules for website maintenance and support.

How We Perform Corvallis, OR 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 Corvallis business after the work is done.

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

Phone or live chat requests follow a similar process to Corvallis website maintenance. 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 Corvallis, OR Businesses

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

Simple Corvallis Website Changes

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

Corvallis Page Speed Improvements

If your Corvallis 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 Updates / Security Fixes

It's important to keep your Corvallis 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 Corvallis website if they were developed and maintained by a third-party. It's similar to updating the CMS platform since it helps patch security and functionality issues.

Google Search Console Fixes

Did you get a report from Google Search Console telling you about a coverage issue? If so, we can fix the coverage issues, and let you know how it went. By making Google happy, you'll boost your search engine rankings throughout Corvallis and beyond!

Setup Structured Data

Have you ever noticed information like reviews or product prices in the listing of a Google organic search result? 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 Corvallis, and ecommerce product or some other common data type.

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? That won't be a problem! We can add Google Tag Manager to your Corvallis website and even teach you how to use it.

Implement Conversion Tracking

If you are interested in understanding the benefit of an online advertising campaign for your Corvallis website, it is important to setup conversion tracking. Then you'll know where your conversions come from, whether it be direct traffic, organic search, or paid ads.

Image Optimization

Are large images slowing down your Corvallis website? 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!

Add Live Chat

Is your website ready for live chat? If you'd like us to recommend the best live chat system for your Corvallis 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? If you're getting recurring error messages, we can update programming code or fix platform issues.

Integrate reCaptcha on Contact Forms

If spambots are attacking your Corvallis website, we can setup a checkbox or invisible reCaptcha to help minimize unwanted submissions on your forms.

Implement a Caching Plugin

Interested in installing a caching plugin for your Corvallis 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.

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

Is it time to make a backup of your Corvallis website? Backups can be performed one-time, or scheduled at specific intervals, and stored locally or offsite.

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. Just let us know if you need help creating and managing that development / staging site!

Setup A/B Testing

Do you prefer to make design changes based on statistical data regarding how users interact with your Corvallis 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

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

For Corvallis 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. For that reason, our website maintenance firm for Corvallis websites tends to service only the following platforms:

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

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

Questions to Ask Corvallis, OR Website Support Firms

If you're thinking about signing up for any Corvallis web maintenance 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 professional Oregon web support services before you submit payment and provide website access. Let's go over some simple questions to ask:

• What kind of security do you have on your site? Do you scan client websites for security?
• What's the turnaround time for Corvallis website support?
• Do you outsource your Corvallis web maintenance services?
• What are your Corvallis website maintenance costs?
• Do you have minimum deductions or minimum billable expenses for Corvallis 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 Corvallis website services agency, you'll gain a better understanding of the future relationship, the security of your website, and the turnaround time for important maintenance requests.

Corvallis, OR Website Support Plans and Tips

Larger companies in and around Corvallis often ask us for a web maintenance plan. We are happy to help your Corvallis business develop a web maintenance plan to ensure all aspects of your website, hosting, and domain name are routinely checked to ensure optimum performance and uptime.

Here is a list of annual Corvallis website maintenance tasks to review:

• Check if your web hosting provider has newer servers that your account can be migrated to.
• Ask your web developer if your website has a major platform release coming up that will require a lot of work to install.
• 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 Corvallis.
• Look at competitor websites (even those outside of Corvallis) 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.
• 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 Corvallis web 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 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.
• Check if your SSL certificate will be expiring in the near future.
• Make sure your website backup schedule is working and you have remote backups.
• Make sure you're running an image optimization service.
• Check if the website is throwing any console errors.

Here are a list of monthly Corvallis website support tasks to review:

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

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