Portsmouth, RI Website Maintenance Services

What is Involved in Maintaining Portsmouth, RI Websites

We see web maintenance as a reactive support service where we provide your Portsmouth 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 Portsmouth web maintenance companies, including:

• 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.
• Staying fresh with new blog content.
• Rearranging the navigation menu of your Portsmouth website.
• 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.
• Enhancing technical SEO with structured data, open graph tags, etc.
• Providing a solution to any other website problem.

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

Reactive Portsmouth Website Support

The reason we consider web maintenance to be a reactive service is that most Portsmouth website owners wouldn't want a web developer going into their website and changing things around without their knowledge. You can count on our firm to keep your Portsmouth website running smoothly. However, we can provide some proactive web support services for your Portsmouth website.

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Proactive Portsmouth Website Support

For website owners in Portsmouth interested in a proactive management service for some of their website upkeep requirements, we are happy to accommodate! There are several website support services, including platform upgrades, app / extension updates, website backups, performance monitoring, and broken link monitoring, that our website maintainers can handle in a proactive manner.

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In addition to supporting Portsmouth-area websites, our web maintenance agency also offers Bristol, Lincoln, Newport, Providence, and Warwick small businesses and large corporations help with their websites.

Who Needs Website Maintenance in Portsmouth, RI

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

• Hosting companies sometimes upgrade their servers, removing PHP versions that were used by your Portsmouth website. This means you have to refactor your app or upgrade to a newer framework that supports the new 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 was no longer maintained by Magento after it reached "End of Life". As a result, Magento 1.x ecommerce businesses in Portsmouth 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. This is time-consuming, and often happens when the website owner isn't paying attention to the first two website support examples.
• To ensure future visitors to your Portsmouth website receive accurate information about your organization, products, or services, your Portsmouth website content needs to be refreshed. Maintaining your Portsmouth 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. It is important to understand the future needs of your Portsmouth business when planning budgets and schedules for website maintenance and support.

How We Perform Portsmouth, RI Web Maintenance

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

Most web support services start with an email from you, the owner of the Portsmouth website. 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 Portsmouth website support. We route the support request to the most appropriate web developer on our team based on the nature of the work needed on your website.

Example Web Maintenance Service List for Portsmouth, RI Businesses

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

Simple Portsmouth Website Changes

Changes to your Portsmouth 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 web support.

Portsmouth Site Performance Improvements

If your Portsmouth 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 Upgrades / Security Updates

It's important to keep your Portsmouth 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.

Extension / Plugin Updates

It's important to update plugins and extensions on your Portsmouth 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.

Fixing Search Console Issues

Did you get a report from Google Search Console telling you about a coverage issue? If so, we can review the coverage issues, fix the problems, and update you on the results. Make Google happy, and you'll rank higher throughout Portsmouth and beyond!

Add 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 Portsmouth, and ecommerce product or some other common data type.

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

Interested in using Google Tag Manager for managing custom scripts? No problem at all! We can add Google Tag Manager to your Portsmouth website and even teach you how to use it.

Add Conversion Tracking

Tracking conversions is important if you want to understand the benefits of online advertising for your Portsmouth website. This will help you understand where your conversions are coming from, such as a Google search or a Bing Ads campaign.

Optimize Images

Is your Portsmouth website slow because of large images? 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

Do you want to try live chat on your website? If you'd like us to recommend the best live chat system for your Portsmouth business, install the tracking code, and customize the design for your branding, we can do it!

Review Error Logs for Issues

Are your error_log files big? To stop recurring error messages, we can diagnose the problem and update programming code.

Setup reCaptcha on Forms

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

Install a Caching Plugin

Are you interested in installing a caching plugin in your Portsmouth 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!

Send Website Emails Over SMTP

We can configure your contact form and website platform to send emails through an SMTP account instead of PHP mail to improve email deliverability.

IP Address Restrictions

Is your Portsmouth 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.

Run Website & Database Backups

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

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 Portsmouth 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.

Add 301 Redirects

Do you have a new website or are you removing pages? Make sure your Portsmouth website has 301 redirects to prevent or at least minimize 404 errors. We've seen businesses in and around Portsmouth 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.

Offer Website Training

Want to learn how to make simple edits to your Portsmouth website? We'll be happy to help if your Portsmouth site was built on a platform we work with, such as WordPress or Shopify.

The Platforms We Maintain for Portsmouth, RI Websites

With years of experience developing websites for Portsmouth 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. For that reason, our website support company for Portsmouth websites tends to service only the following platforms:

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

As a web maintenance agency, we used to maintain and support Joomla and Magento websites for Portsmouth-area businesses. However, we chose not to use those platforms so our website maintenance experts could focus on training and support within the more popular platforms.

Questions to Ask Portsmouth, RI Web Support Agencies

Ask the Portsmouth web 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 premium Rhode Island web support services before you submit payment and provide 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 Portsmouth website support?
• Is your Portsmouth web maintenance outsourced?
• What are your Portsmouth web maintenance costs?
• Do you have minimum deductions or minimum billable expenses for Portsmouth 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 Portsmouth website services company, you'll gain a better understanding of the future relationship, the security of your website, and the turnaround time for important maintenance requests.

Portsmouth, RI Web Support Plans and Tips

Companies in and around Portsmouth often ask us for a website support plan to establish routines and procedures. We are happy to help your Portsmouth 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 Portsmouth website maintenance 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.
• Try restoring a website backup to make sure the data is good enough for a full recovery. Also, make sure your backups are stored somewhere else besides Portsmouth.
• Look at competitor websites (even those outside of Portsmouth) 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.
• 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.

Read through this list of semi-annual Portsmouth 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.
• Make sure you have access to your DNS.
• Check if your SSL certificate will be expiring in the near future.
• Verify your website backup schedule is working properly, and you have remote backups outside of Portsmouth.
• If you have an automated image optimization service, verify it is working properly.
• See if there are any console errors on the website.

Check out this list of monthly Portsmouth website support tasks to consider:

• Check for broken links on your website, which negatively impact 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.
• Take a look at your website platform and extensions for any available updates.

The Cost of Web Maintenance Service in Portsmouth, RI

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