Salem, OR Website Maintenance Services

What is Involved in Maintaining Salem, OR Websites

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

• Upgrading your website platform to the latest version.
• Keeping apps and plugins updated for better security and functionality.
• Adding new pages whenever you release something new.
• Freshen up your blog with new content.
• Rearranging your Salem site's navigation menu.
• Improve your page speed to pass Google Core Web Vitals.
• Backing up your website's files and databases.
• Changing the look and feel of your website.
• Fixing Google Search Console coverage issues.
• Improving technical SEO by adding structured data, open graph tags, etc.
• Providing solutions to other website problems.

These are just a few of the Salem web support services we offer. In fact, Salem website support is basically anything a web developer or digital marketer does to your website.

Reactive Salem Website Support

We consider web maintenance a reactive service because most Salem 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. However, we can offer some proactive Salem website maintenance services.

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Proactive Salem Website Support

For website owners in Salem 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 Salem-area websites, our web support agency also offers Albany, Aloha, Beaverton, Corvallis, Eugene, Gresham, Medford, Portland, Redmond, Springfield, and Tigard small businesses and large corporations help with their websites.

Who Needs Web Maintenance in Salem, OR

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

• Hosting companies sometimes upgrade their servers, removing PHP versions that were used by your Salem website. That means you'll have to refactor your app or upgrade to a newer framework that supports the latest PHP release. There's no way you can expect custom web functionality to work forever.
• In order to focus on maintaining the newer version of an ecommerce platform or content management system, they eventually have to deprecate the previous releases. 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 Salem were looking for ecommerce developers to help migrate their websites.
• An owner of a Salem 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 can be a time-consuming activity, and often happens because the website owner wasn't being mindful of the first two web support examples, listed above.
• You need to refresh your Salem website content when it's outdated or doesn't explain your organization, products, or services well enough for future visitors. Maintaining your Salem website is key to making sure it's working for you.

Above and beyond just updating something, there are plenty of reasons why a website might need maintenance. Plan your budget and schedules for website support and maintenance based on your Salem business's potential future needs.

How We Perform Salem, OR Website Support

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

A Salem 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. We can then work on the ticket without delay, which leads to faster turnaround and easier internal communication.

Phone or live chat requests follow a similar process to Salem website maintenance. A support request is entered into our ticket system by the person in the conversation with you, so the work order can be routed to the right web developer.

Example Web Support Service List for Salem, OR Businesses

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

Simple Salem Website Changes

Changes to your Salem website could be as simple as updating a paragraph, swapping images, or adding a new page. Keeping content fresh for search engines and visitors is just normal, routine website maintenance.

Salem Website Speed Improvements

Let us check your Salem 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 Updates / Security Fixes

It's important to keep your Salem website updated if it runs on a CMS like WordPress. The updates improve security and functionality - sometimes they're quick, so it's an easy win!

Plugin / Extension Updates

It's important to update your Salem 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.

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. By making Google happy, you'll boost your search engine rankings throughout Salem and beyond!

Implement Structured Data

Do you ever see product prices or reviews in Google organic 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 Salem, and ecommerce product or some other common data type.

Add Open Graph to Your Website

When people share links of your Salem business on social media, your website will look better if you add Open Graph Tags. These tags help define an image, title, and description for your each page on your website.

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 Salem website and even teach you how to use it.

Setup Conversion Tracking

It's important to setup conversion tracking for your Salem 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 Salem website that's 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

Would you like to try live chat? If you'd like us to recommend the best live chat system for your Salem 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? To stop recurring error messages, we can diagnose the problem and update programming code.

Setup reCaptcha on Forms

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

Install a Caching Plugin

Interested in installing a caching plugin for your Salem website, but don't know how to set it up? We can recommend caching plugins, or we can 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 Salem 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 Salem 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 Salem 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 Salem website. We've seen businesses in and around Salem 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 Salem website? If your Salem 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 Salem, OR Websites

With years of experience developing websites for Salem 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 web support company for Salem websites tends to service only the following platforms:

• Salem WordPress Web Maintenance
• Salem WooCommerce Web Maintenance
• Salem Shopify Website Maintenance

We've managed Joomla and Magento platforms for Salem 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 Salem, OR Website Support Companies

Ask the Salem website maintenance 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 expert Oregon website support services prior to making payment and providing website access. Let's go over some simple questions to ask:

• Can you tell me how you handle website security? Do you run website security scans for clients?
• What's the turnaround time for Salem web maintenance?
• Are you outsourcing your Salem web maintenance services?
• How much might it cost to maintain an average Salem website?
• Are there minimum deductions or minimum billable expenses for Salem 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 any Salem website services company these questions before subscribing to their web support 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.

Salem, OR Website Support Plans and Tips

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

Here is a list of annual Salem web support tasks to review:

• Message your web hosting firm to see if they have upgraded servers you can switch your website to for faster page speeds.
• Ask your web developer if your website has a major platform release coming up that will require a lot of work to install.
• 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 Salem) to see if you're missing out on anything.
• Take a look at your website's security to make sure nothing's been compromised.
• 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.
• Delete any development or staging websites you don't need.

Here is a list of semi-annual Salem website support tasks to consider:

• 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.
• 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.
• Make sure you're running an image optimization service.
• Make sure the website doesn't throw any console errors.

Check out this list of monthly Salem web maintenance tasks to consider:

• 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 are any coverage issues in 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.

The Cost of Web Maintenance Service in Salem, OR

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