South Dakota Website Maintenance Services

Our South Dakota Website Maintenance Services

We see website maintenance as a reactive support service where we provide your South Dakota organization with the right web designer resources to fix just about any problem. There are many examples of website concerns that might require service from South Dakota website support companies, 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 information.
• Freshen up your blog with new content.
• Rearranging your South Dakota site's navigation menu.
• Improve your page speed to pass Google Core Web Vitals.
• Take backups of your website's files and databases.
• Modifying the look and feel of your website's design.
• Troubleshooting Google Search Console coverage concerns.
• Adding structured data, open graph tags, etc.
• Providing solutions to other website issues.

The previously mentioned services are just a glimpse of what we view as possible South Dakota website maintenance packages. In fact, South Dakota website support is really anything a web designer or online advertising consultant does to your website to change it in some manner.

Our web maintenance and support agency is happy to provide Aberdeen, and Sioux Falls with fast website support services.

Pricing for South Dakota Web Maintenance

The cost of our website maintenance plans begins at $119.50/hour, but discounts are available for pre-purchased blocks of time, which can lower the hourly rate to as low as $99.95.

With the purchase of a website maintenance retainer, there are no hidden fees, contracts, minimum deductions, or expirations.

Kindly note that we seldom encounter tasks that take less than 10 minutes to complete, as reviewing an email or receiving a phone call, working on the task, providing feedback, and logging the task usually requires at least 10 minutes.

Our team will furnish you with a monthly update to inform you of the remaining time balance on your pre-purchased web support retainer, ensuring that you stay aware of your usage.

Our South Dakota Website Management Plans

Are you weary of being continuously notified about available updates? Are you concerned about potential website downtime? Allow our web development team to alleviate your concerns through proactive website management!

Here is a summary of what our site management plans entail:

1.) Proactive Website Upgrades

With our in-house team of website professionals, we are capable of performing platform updates, theme updates, and plugin/extension updates for WordPress or WooCommerce websites on a monthly or quarterly schedule!

1. Backups: We initiate the process by generating backups of your website files and database.
2. Install Update: Subsequently, we proceed to manually install any available updates on your website.
3. Review: We run a test on your website for concerns once the upgrades have been installed.
4. Wrap Up: Successful updates will enhance your website's protection against malware and security threats! If the upgrades are not successful, we will collaborate on the next course of action.

2.) Remote File & Database Backups

We keep remote backups of your website and database to minimize the possibility of data loss.

3.) Website Uptime Monitoring

We keep an eye on your website for service outages through our uptime monitoring system.

In the event of your website going down, an alert will be sent to our web designers, who will then investigate the issue.

Pricing for South Dakota Website Management

You have the choice of opting for website management plans with monthly and quarterly options. This empowers you to decide the frequency at which our team performs remote backups and installs site updates.

The Platforms We Maintain for South Dakota Websites

With years of experience developing websites for South Dakota 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 web maintenance firm for South Dakota websites tends to service only the following platforms:

• South Dakota WordPress Web Support
• South Dakota WooCommerce Website Support
• South Dakota Shopify Web Maintenance

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

Example Website Maintenance Service List for South Dakota Businesses

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

Basic South Dakota Website Changes

Changes to your South Dakota website could be as basic as updating a paragraph, swapping images, or adding a new page. This is just normal, routine website maintenance to keep content fresh for both search engines and visitors.

South Dakota Page Speed Improvements

Let us check your South Dakota website for hosting, caching, image optimization, console errors, broken links, poor database queries, and other potential issues that might be impacting your website speed. It'll help improve page load times, which will make users and search engines happy.

Platform Updates / Security Upgrades

If your South Dakota website is running on a content management system, like WordPress, it is important to keep the platform updated. Upgrades help improve security and functionality - and they're usually quick, so it might be a simple task.

Plugin / Extension Updates

It's important to upgrade your South Dakota website's plugins and extensions to reflect the latest changes by the developers. This is similar to the idea of updating the CMS platform since it helps patch security and functionality glitches.

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. Make Google happy, and you'll rank higher throughout South Dakota and beyond!

Implement Structured Data

Do you ever see product prices or reviews in Google organic search results? This is structured data, which is a standardized way to describe the content on a webpage, whether it's a nearby South Dakota organization, 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.

Implement Google Tag Manager

Interested in using Google Tag Manager for managing custom scripts? Not a problem! We can add Google Tag Manager to your South Dakota 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 marketing for your South Dakota website. It'll help you understand where your conversions come from, like direct traffic, referral links, organic search, or PPC advertising.

Image Compression (Optimization)

Do you have a South Dakota website that's slow because of large images? That won't be 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!

Integrate a Live Chat

Would you like to try live chat? If you'd like us to recommend the best live chat system for your South Dakota business, install the tracking code, and customize the design for your branding, we can do it!

Review Error 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.

Reduce Spam with reCaptcha

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

Install a Caching Plugin

Interested in installing a caching plugin for your South Dakota website, but don't know how to set it up? We can help you figure out which caching plugins to install and configure on your website!

Setup SMTP Email

If you want to improve email deliverability, we can set up your contact form and website platform to send emails via SMTP 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 South Dakota website? Let us help you create one-time or scheduled backups that you can store locally or offsite.

Create a Testing Website

When you're doing a major upgrade or extension installation, you should set up a development or staging site first. 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 modifications based on statistical data regarding how users interact with your South Dakota web page? We can help you run A/B testing to help you decide which design or content layouts are best.

Setup 301 Redirects

Are you launching a new website or removing pages from your website? You should create 301 redirects for your South Dakota website. We've seen businesses in and around South Dakota 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 South Dakota website? If your South Dakota website was developed in a platform we work within, such as WordPress or WordPress, we'll be happy to help!

Questions to Ask South Dakota Website Maintenance Firms

Ask the South Dakota website support company some questions about their services before you sign up for a package. This will help you get a better idea of the relationship you will have with the South Dakota website maintenance team before you give them money, provide them website access, and give them complete access to your website for one of their web maintenance packages. Let's go over some simple questions to ask:

• Can you tell me how you handle website security? Do you run site security scans for companies?
• When can I expect an average South Dakota web maintenance request to be completed?
• Are you outsourcing your South Dakota website maintenance services?
• How much might it cost to maintain an average South Dakota website?
• Are there minimum deductions or minimum billable expenses for South Dakota website updates?
• At what times of the day are you working and able to take our maintenance requests?
• Will you keep me informed about new updates within my platform?

If you ask these questions to South Dakota website services companies, you'll gain a better understanding of the future relationship, the security of your website, and the turnaround time for important maintenance requests.

South Dakota Website Support Plans and Tips

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

Annual South Dakota web maintenance work

• Message your web hosting agency to see if they have upgraded servers you can switch your website to for faster site performance.
• Check if your website platform is releasing a major upgrade in the near future which will require a major overhaul of your website.
• 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 South Dakota) to see if you're missing out on anything.
• Take a look at your website's security to make sure nothing's been compromised.
• Ensure that structured data, open graph, and social links are all working.
• Verify the necessity of any external tracking, live chat, or heat map scripts that are installed.
• Take down any unnecessary development or staging sites.

Semi-annual South Dakota website support tasks

• 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.
• Ensure you have access to your hosting account and that it isn't expiring soon.
• 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 South Dakota and that your website backup schedule is working.
• If you have an automated image optimization service, verify it is working properly.
• Make sure the website doesn't throw any browser errors.

Monthly South Dakota web maintenance tasks

• Look for broken links on your website, which hurts search engine optimization and UX.
• Check for page performance errors from recent upgrades or changes on the website.
• See if there's anything wrong being reported within Google Search Console.
• Keep your website fresh by updating your content within one of your service pages or blog articles.
• Take a look at your website platform and extensions for any available updates.

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Website Maintenance Packages throughout South Dakota

If you've been looking for experienced web maintenance and support firms serving major cities throughout South Dakota, we'll be the web support team you want to contact. Our website support experts frequently offer web maintenance and help in Aberdeen, or Sioux Falls throughout South Dakota. From basic site upgrades and platform updates, to website training and emergency support, our web support company will have you covered!

When searching for website professionals to handle web maintenance and support in smaller cities throughout South Dakota, we still hope you'll consider our website support plans. We have a full staff of dedicated website consultants ready to help South Dakota-area small businesses. Whether your organization is located in Sioux Falls, Rapid City, Aberdeen, Brookings, Watertown, or a different city, our web maintenance company will be ready to help with all your South Dakota web support services!