Montréal, QC Website Maintenance Services

Our Montréal, QC Website Maintenance Services

We see web maintenance as a reactive support service where we provide your Montréal business with the right web developer resources to fix just about any problem. There are many examples of website issues that might require service from Montréal website support firms, including:

• Updating your website platform.
• Keeping apps and plugins updated for better security and functionality.
• Adding new web pages as you release new products or services.
• Writing new blog content to help you stay fresh.
• Rearranging your Montréal website's navigation menu.
• Improve your page speed to pass Google Core Web Vitals.
• Taking backups of your website's files and databases.
• Changing the look and feel of your website.
• Troubleshooting Google Search Console coverage issues.
• Improving technical SEO by adding structured data, open graph tags, etc.
• Providing a solution to any other website problem.

Those services are just a taste of what Montréal web maintenance might look like. In fact, Montréal website maintenance is really anything a web developer or digital marketer does to your website to change it in some manner.

If you live in Montréal, you probably love the Montreal Canadiens hockey team. Go Montreal Canadiens! In addition to supporting Montréal-area websites, our web support agency also offers and Québec small businesses and large corporations help with their websites.

Pricing for Montréal, QC Website Maintenance

The starting price for our 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.

If you purchase a website maintenance retainer, there are no contracts, hidden fees, expirations, or minimum deductions.

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, working on the request, providing feedback, and logging the task usually takes at least 10 minutes of time.

To keep you informed of the time usage on your pre-purchased web maintenance retainer, you'll receive a monthly update letting you know how much time remains on your account.

Our Montréal, QC Website Management Services

Tired of being warned about available updates? Worried about website downtime? Let our web development team take care of both worries through proactive website management!

Here is a list of what is included in our website management plans:

1.) Proactive Website Updates

We have an in-house team of website experts ready to perform platform updates, theme updates, and plugin/extension updates on a quarterly or monthly schedule for WordPress or WooCommerce websites!

1. Backup: We start by taking backups of your website files and database.
2. Update: Next, we manually install any available updates on your website.
3. Test: After the updates have been installed, we test your website for issues.
4. Finalize: If the upgrades were successful, you'll be better protected against security threats and malware! If the updates aren't successful, we'll discuss next steps.

2.) Remote Website Backups

We store remote backups of your website and database to minimize the risk of data loss.

3.) Website Uptime Monitoring

We monitor your website for service outages within our uptime monitoring system.

If your website goes down, an alert will be sent to our web developers to allow us to investigate the issue.

Pricing for Montréal, QC Website Management

Our website management plans are offered in monthly and quarterly options. This allows you to choose how often our team processes remote backups and installs available website updates.

The Platforms We Maintain for Montréal, QC Websites

With years of experience developing websites for Montréal businesses (and those in other areas of the country), our web designers and web developers have been immersed in 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 Montréal websites:

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

In the past, we provided website maintenance and support for Joomla and Magento platforms of Montréal businesses. However, we chose not to use those platforms so our website support experts could focus on training and support within the more popular platforms.

Example Web Maintenance Service List for Montréal, QC Businesses

After the launch of a website, we're often asked for detailed examples of Montréal web maintenance requests. Here are several examples of Montréal website maintenance services we've been asked to perform in the past and would be more than happy to provide to you!

Simple Montréal Website Updates

Changes to your Montréal website could be as simple as updating a paragraph, swapping images, or adding a new page. These are just normal, routine web support tasks to keep content fresh for both search engines and visitors.

Montréal Page Speed Improvements

We can analyze your Montréal website for hosting issues, caching issues, unoptimized images, console errors, broken links, poor queries, and more if it's slow. It'll help improve page load times, which will make users and search engines happy.

Platform Upgrades / Security Patches

It's important to keep your Montréal 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 Updates

It's important to update plugins and extensions on your Montréal website if they were developed and maintained by a third-party. The idea is similar to updating the CMS platform since it fixes security and functionality problems.

Google Search Console Fixes

Did Google Search Console tell you about a coverage problem? If so, we'll look at the coverage issues, fix them, and update you on the status. This will help your search engine rankings, throughout Montréal and beyond, by making Google happy!

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

Add Open Graph Tags 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

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 Montréal website and 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 Montréal website. It'll help you understand where your conversions come from, like direct traffic, referral links, organic search, or paid ads.

Optimize Images

Are large images slowing down your Montréal website? Not a problem! Using our image compression tools, we can compress all your images and even set up recurring compression for new images!

Setup Live Chat

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

Review Error Log Files

Do you have a lot of error_log files on your hosting account? To stop recurring error messages, we can diagnose the problem and update programming code.

Integrate reCaptcha on Contact Forms

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

Install a Caching Plugin

Are you interested in installing a caching plugin in your Montréal website, but not sure how to properly configure the settings for best website performance? We can help recommend caching plugins, or just install and configure them for you!

Implement SMTP Email

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

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.

Create Website Backups

Is it time to make a backup of your Montréal website? Let us help you create one-time or scheduled backups that you can store 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. Whenever you need help with creating and managing your development 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 Montréal web page? A/B testing can help you decide between two or more design layouts based on the data collected.

Setup 301 Redirects

Are you launching a new website or removing pages from your website? You will want to create 301 redirects for your Montréal website to prevent broken pages from hurting your SEO. Having broken pages will cost your Montréal business a lot of organic traffic if they aren't fixed with 301 redirects. We can help you create 301 redirects within .htaccess files, nginx templates, and CMS platforms.

Train You on Your Website

Do you need help learning how to make changes to your Montréal website? If your Montréal site was developed in a platform we work within, such as WordPress or Shopify, we'll be happy to help!

Questions to Ask Montréal, QC Website Support Companies

Ask the Montréal website maintenance company some questions about their services before you sign up for a package. This will help you get a better idea of the experience you will have with their expert Quebec website support services before you submit payment and provide website access. You can ask these simple questions:

• Can you tell me how you handle website security? Do you run website security scans for clients?
• What is the turnaround time for Montréal web maintenance requests?
• Do you outsource your Montréal web maintenance services?
• How much does Montréal website maintenance cost?
• Are there minimum deductions or minimum billable expenses for Montréal website updates?
• What are your normal hours of operation?
• When there are new updates on my platform, will you let me know?

If you ask these questions to a Montréal 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.

Montréal, QC Website Support Plans and Tips

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

Annual Montréal web support tasks

• Message your web hosting firm to see if they have upgraded servers you can switch your website to for faster page speeds.
• Check if your website platform has a new major release that will require an extensive website migration.
• 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 Montréal.
• Check out competitor sites (even those outside of Montréal) to see if you're missing out on any competitive advantages they have over you.
• Take a look at your website's security to make sure nothing's been compromised.
• Verify structured data, open graph, and social links are all working properly.
• 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.

Semi-annual Montréal website support tasks

• 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 your hosting account credentials and make sure it's not about to expire.
• 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 you have remote backups outside Montréal and that your website backup schedule is working.
• Check if you have an automated image optimization service running.
• Check if the website is throwing any console errors.

Monthly Montréal web maintenance tasks

• 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.
• 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.
• Check if there are available platform or extension updates.

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