Bristol, RI Website Maintenance Services

What is Involved in Maintaining Bristol, RI Websites

We view website maintenance to be a reactive support service that provides your Bristol business with the appropriate web developer resources to solve nearly any website problem. There are many examples of website issues that might require service from Bristol web support companies, including:

• Upgrading your website platform to the latest version.
• 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 the navigation menu of your Bristol website.
• Making your page faster to pass Google Core Web Vitals.
• Take backups of your website's files and databases.
• Making your website look and feel better.
• Fixing Google Search Console coverage issues.
• Improving technical SEO by adding structured data, open graph tags, etc.
• Investigating the cause and providing a solution to any other website issue.

The previously mentioned services are just a glimpse of what we view as possible Bristol web maintenance services. Basically, Bristol web maintenance is anything a web developer or internet marketer does to change your website.

Reactive Bristol Website Support

The reason we consider website maintenance to be a reactive service is that most Bristol website owners wouldn't want a web developer going into their website and changing things around without their knowledge. When you choose to have our firm maintain your Bristol website, we'll be your web support team on standby for any request. However, we can offer some proactive Bristol website support services.

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Proactive Bristol Website Support

Interested in a proactive website management service for some of your website upkeep? We're happy to help! 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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In addition to supporting Bristol-area websites, our web maintenance firm also offers Lincoln, Newport, Portsmouth, Providence, and Warwick small businesses and large corporations help with their websites.

Who Needs Web Support in Bristol, RI

At some point in time, every Bristol website will require some form of website support. The reason is simply that the internet is always changing. Not to worry though, our Bristol web maintenance cost isn't expensive so it should be affordable for you to maintain your website! Website maintenance in Bristol might be needed for these reasons:

• When a hosting provider upgrades their servers, they may remove older versions of PHP that your Bristol 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. You can't expect custom web functionality programmed in the past to work forever without any improvements.
• Content management systems or ecommerce platforms eventually deprecate old versions so their teams can focus on the new ones. 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". Because of that, Magento 1.x ecommerce businesses in Bristol were suddenly looking for an ecommerce developer to help migrate their website to a supported platform.
• An owner of a Bristol 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 maintenance examples, listed above.
• When the content on your Bristol website, which explains your organization, products, or services becomes outdated and needs to be refreshed to help ensure future visitors receive accurate information about your operation. This type of website maintenance is critical to ensuring your Bristol website is benefiting you.

There are many reasons why a website might need maintenance, other than just to update something. Plan your budget and schedules for website support and maintenance based on your Bristol business's potential future needs.

How We Perform Bristol, RI Web Support

We have an experienced website support team who puts forth great effort to understand your maintenance needs, schedule your work in a timely fashion, and follow up with your Bristol business after the tasks have been completed.

Most web maintenance services start with an email from you, the owner of the Bristol 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.

The process for Bristol website maintenance 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 Support Service List for Bristol, RI Businesses

We are often asked for detailed examples of Bristol website support requests that might come up after the launch of a website. Here are several examples of Bristol web maintenance services we've been asked to perform in the past and would be more than happy to provide to you!

Simple Bristol Website Changes

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

Bristol Page Speed Improvements

If your Bristol 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. User experience and SEO will both benefit from better page load times.

Platform Upgrades / Security Updates

Keeping your Bristol website's content management system updated is important if it's running on WordPress. The updates improve security and functionality - sometimes they're quick, so it's an easy win!

Plugin / Extension Updates

If your Bristol website has functionality developed and maintained by a third-party, it is important to update those plugins and extensions to include the latest changes by the developers. This is similar to the idea of updating the CMS platform since it helps patch security and functionality issues.

Google Search Console Issues

Did Google Search Console tell you about a coverage problem? If so, we can review the coverage issues, fix the problems, and update you on the results. This will help your search engine rankings, throughout Bristol and beyond, by making Google happy!

Implement 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 Bristol or an ecommerce product.

Implement Open Graph 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 Bristol business.

Setup 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 Bristol website and teach you how to use it.

Implement Conversion Tracking

If you are interested in understanding the benefit of an online advertising campaign for your Bristol website, it is important to setup conversion tracking. It'll help you understand where your conversions come from, like direct traffic, referral links, organic search, or paid ads.

Image Compression (Optimization)

Do you have a Bristol website that's slow because of large images? Not 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!

Setup Live Chat

Do you want to try live chat on your website? Our experts can help you pick the right live chat system, install the tracking code, and customize the design to match your Bristol business branding!

Review Error Logs for Issues

Have you noticed large 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

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

Implement a Caching Plugin

Interested in installing a caching plugin for your Bristol 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? We can help setup IP restrictions to prevent malicious traffic from interacting with your website.

Create Website Backups

Would you like a backup of your Bristol website? Let us help you create one-time or scheduled backups that you can store locally or offsite.

Create a Staging Website

Before you do a major update or extension installation, it's a good idea to setup a development or staging site. 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 Bristol 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 Bristol website. We've seen businesses in and around Bristol 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 Bristol website? If your Bristol 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 Bristol, RI Websites

We have a diverse team of web designers and web developers, for Bristol businesses, who have been immersed in multiple website platforms over the years. 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 Bristol websites tends to service only the following platforms:

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

As a web support company, we used to maintain and support Joomla and Magento websites for Bristol-area businesses. The reason we moved away from those platforms was to let our web maintenance experts focus more on training and support.

Questions to Ask Bristol, RI Web Maintenance Companies

Before signing up for any Bristol web support package, it is important to ask the Bristol website support company some questions about how their services work. This will help you get a better idea of the experience you will have with their professional Rhode Island website maintenance 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?
• When can I expect an average Bristol web support request to be completed?
• Do you outsource your Bristol website support services?
• What are your Bristol web maintenance costs?
• Are there any minimum deductions or minimum billable expenses for Bristol website updates?
• At what times of the day are you working and able to take our maintenance requests?
• How will I know about new updates to my platform?

If you ask any Bristol website services agency these questions before subscribing to their website 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.

Bristol, RI Web Support Plans and Tips

We are often asked for a website support plan by larger companies in and around Bristol looking to establish routines and procedures within their IT department. We are happy to help your Bristol 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 Bristol website maintenance 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 Bristol.
• Look at competitor websites (even those outside of Bristol) to see if you are missing out on new functionality for your own customers.
• Ensure your website is secure by performing a full security review.
• Ensure that structured data, open graph, and social links are all working.
• Check if any 3rd party tracking, live chat, or heat map scripts are installed but no longer necessary.
• Delete any development or staging websites you don't need.

Here is a list of semi-annual Bristol web support tasks to consider:

• Ensure you have access to your domain name and that it isn't expiring soon. This will be helpful when you have to process a domain name renewal.
• Ensure you have access to your hosting account and that it isn't expiring soon.
• Make sure you can access your DNS in case anything needs to be changed.
• Find out if your SSL certificate will expire soon.
• Verify your website backup schedule is working properly, and you have remote backups outside of Bristol.
• Check if you have an automated image optimization service running.
• Make sure the website doesn't throw any console errors.

Read through this list of monthly Bristol website support tasks to review:

• Ensure your website doesn't have any broken links, which affect user experience and SEO.
• Check your website for performance issues after recent updates or changes.
• Check Google Search Console for any coverage issues.
• Provide some kind of update to your content to keep your website fresh.
• Check if there are available platform or extension updates.

The Cost of Web Maintenance Service in Bristol, RI

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