Hilton Head Island, SC Website Maintenance Services

What is Involved in Maintaining Hilton Head Island, SC Websites

We view website maintenance to be a reactive support service that provides your Hilton Head Island 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 Hilton Head Island web maintenance agencies, including:

• Upgrading your website platform to the latest version.
• Keeping apps and plugins updated for better security and functionality.
• Adding new web pages as you release new products or services.
• Freshen up your blog with new content.
• Rearranging your Hilton Head Island site's navigation menu.
• Improving page speed to help you 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.
• 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 Hilton Head Island website maintenance services we offer. In fact, Hilton Head Island web support is really anything a web developer or digital marketer does to your website to change it in some manner.

Reactive Hilton Head Island Website Support

Most Hilton Head Island website owners wouldn't want a web developer messing around with their site without their permission. That's why we consider website support a reactive service. Our company will be your web support team on standby for any questions you have. However, we can offer some proactive Hilton Head Island website maintenance services.

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Proactive Hilton Head Island Website Support

We're happy to help website owners in Hilton Head Island who need proactive website upkeep! 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 Hilton Head Island-area websites, our web support company also offers Aiken, Charleston, Columbia, Florence, Greenville, Mount Pleasant, Myrtle Beach, North Charleston, Rock Hill, and Summerville small businesses and large corporations help with their websites.

Who Needs Web Maintenance in Hilton Head Island, SC

At some point in time, every Hilton Head Island website will require some form of web maintenance. The reason is simply that the internet is always changing. Not to worry though, our Hilton Head Island 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 Hilton Head Island might need maintenance:

• When a hosting company upgrades their servers, they may remove older versions of PHP that your Hilton Head Island website was originally developed to support. 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.
• 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". Because of that, Magento 1.x ecommerce businesses in Hilton Head Island were suddenly looking for an ecommerce developer to help migrate their website to a supported platform.
• An owner of a Hilton Head Island 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 is time-consuming, and often happens when the website owner isn't paying attention to the first two web support examples.
• To ensure future visitors to your Hilton Head Island website receive accurate information about your organization, products, or services, your Hilton Head Island website content needs to be refreshed. Maintaining your Hilton Head Island 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. When planning budgets and schedules for website support and support, consider your Hilton Head Island business's potential future needs.

How We Perform Hilton Head Island, SC Web Maintenance

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

Most web support services start with an email from you, the owner of the Hilton Head Island 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.

For requests that originate from phone or live chat, a similar process to handling your Hilton Head Island website support services unfolds. 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 Maintenance Service List for Hilton Head Island, SC Businesses

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

Simple Hilton Head Island Website Changes

Changes to your Hilton Head Island 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.

Hilton Head Island Website Speed Improvements

Let us check your Hilton Head Island website for hosting, caching, image optimization, console errors, broken links, poor database queries, and other potential problems that might be impacting your page speed. This will help improve page load times, which are beneficial to user experience and search engine optimization.

Platform Upgrades / Security Updates

Keeping your Hilton Head Island 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!

Extension / Plugin Updates

It's important to update plugins and extensions on your Hilton Head Island 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

Has Google Search Console told you there's a coverage problem? If so, we'll look at the coverage issues, fix them, and update you on the status. By making Google happy, you'll boost your search engine rankings throughout Hilton Head Island and beyond!

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 to describe the content on a webpage, whether it's a local Hilton Head Island business, 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 Hilton Head Island business.

Setup Google Tag Manager

Are you interested in adding Google Tag Manager to your website to help you manage custom scripts more easily? No problem at all! We can add Google Tag Manager to your Hilton Head Island website and even give you a crash course in using Google Tag Manager.

Setup Conversion Tracking

Tracking conversions is important if you want to understand the benefits of online advertising for your Hilton Head Island website. 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 Hilton Head Island website that's slow because of large images? Not 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? We can make recommendations on the best live chat systems for your business requirements, install the tracking code, and configure the design to match the branding of your Hilton Head Island business!

Resolve Errors in Log Files

Are your error_log files big? If you're getting recurring error messages, we can update programming code or fix platform issues.

Reduce Spam with reCaptcha

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

Install a Caching Plugin

Interested in installing a caching plugin for your Hilton Head Island 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.

Restrict Malicious IP Addresses

Is your Hilton Head Island website being bombarded with fake orders, contact submissions or live chats from a specific network? Our team can help set up IP restrictions so your website doesn't get hit with as much malicious traffic.

Run Website & Database Backups

Do you want to create a backup of your Hilton Head Island 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. Whenever you need help with creating and managing your development site, just let us know!

Setup A/B Testing

Would you like to make changes to your Hilton Head Island website based on statistical data? 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.

Setup 301 Redirects

Have you launched a new website or removed pages? Make sure your Hilton Head Island website has 301 redirects to prevent or at least minimize 404 errors. Having broken pages will cost your Hilton Head Island business a lot of organic traffic if they aren't fixed with 301 redirects. We are happy to help you resolve broken pages through the creation of 301 redirects within .htaccess files, nginx templates, and CMS plugins.

Offer Website Training

Need help learning how to make simple changes to your Hilton Head Island website? If your Hilton Head Island 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 Hilton Head Island, SC Websites

We have a diverse team of web designers and web developers, for Hilton Head Island 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 support company for Hilton Head Island websites tends to service only the following platforms:

• Hilton Head Island WordPress Website Maintenance
• Hilton Head Island WooCommerce Web Support
• Hilton Head Island Shopify Website Support

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

Questions to Ask Hilton Head Island, SC Web Support Agencies

Before signing up for any Hilton Head Island web maintenance package, it is important to ask the Hilton Head Island website maintenance company some questions about how their services work. This will help you get a better idea of the experience you will have with their expert South Carolina website 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 is the turnaround time for Hilton Head Island web maintenance requests?
• Are you outsourcing your Hilton Head Island web maintenance services?
• How much might it cost to maintain an average Hilton Head Island website?
• Do you have minimum deductions or minimum billable expenses for Hilton Head Island 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 Hilton Head Island 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.

Hilton Head Island, SC Website Support Plans and Tips

We are often asked for a web maintenance plan by larger companies in and around Hilton Head Island looking to establish routines and procedures within their IT department. We are happy to help your Hilton Head Island 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.

Here is a list of annual Hilton Head Island 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.
• Check if your website platform has a new major release that will require an extensive website migration.
• 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 Hilton Head Island) to see if you're missing out on anything.
• 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.
• 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.

Read through this list of semi-annual Hilton Head Island website 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.
• Make sure your SSL certificate isn't expiring soon.
• Make sure you have remote backups outside Hilton Head Island and that your website backup schedule is working.
• Make sure you're running an image optimization service.
• Make sure the website doesn't throw any console errors.

Read through this list of monthly Hilton Head Island web maintenance tasks to review:

• Look for broken links on your website, which hurts SEO and user experience.
• 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 Hilton Head Island, SC

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