Arlington Heights Website Maintenance Services

What is Involved in Maintaining Arlington, TX Websites

We see website maintenance as a reactive support service where we provide your Arlington 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 Arlington web maintenance agencies, including:

• Upgrading your website platform to the latest version.
• Installing app or plugin updates to improve security and functionality.
• Adding new web pages as you release new information.
• Staying fresh with new blog content.
• Rearranging your Arlington site's navigation menu.
• 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.
• 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 Arlington website maintenance might look like. In fact, Arlington web support is really anything a web developer or digital marketer does to your website to change it in some manner.

Reactive Arlington Website Support

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

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Proactive Arlington Website Support

For website owners in Arlington interested in a proactive management service for some of their website upkeep requirements, we are happy to accommodate! We can take care of platform upgrades, app/extension updates, website backups, performance monitoring, and broken link monitoring as part of our proactive website management service.

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If you live in Arlington, you probably love the Texas–Arlington Mavericks basketball team. Go Texas–Arlington Mavericks! In addition to supporting Arlington-area websites, our web support company also offers Amarillo, Austin, Brownsville, Corpus Christi, Dallas, El Paso, Fort Worth, Frisco, Garland, Grand Prairie, Houston, Irving, Laredo, Lubbock, McKinney, Mesquite, Pasadena, Plano, and San Antonio small businesses and large corporations help with their websites.

Who Needs Web Maintenance in Arlington, TX

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

• When a hosting provider upgrades their servers, they may remove older versions of PHP that your Arlington website was originally developed to support. This means you have to refactor your app or upgrade to a newer framework that supports the new PHP version. 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". As a result, Magento 1.x ecommerce businesses in Arlington 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 can be a time-consuming activity, and often happens because the website owner wasn't being mindful of the first two web support examples, listed above.
• To ensure future visitors to your Arlington website receive accurate information about your organization, products, or services, your Arlington website content needs to be refreshed. Keeping your Arlington website up to date is key to its success.

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. It is important to understand the future needs of your Arlington business when planning budgets and schedules for website maintenance and support.

How We Perform Arlington, TX Website Support

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

Most website maintenance services start with an email from you, the owner of the Arlington website. That email is routed into our ticket system and automatically assigned to the project manager on your account. From there, anyone on our team can work on the ticket without delay, leading to faster turnaround time and simplified internal communication.

The process for Arlington web support services that come from phone or chat is similar. 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 Website Support Service List for Arlington, TX Businesses

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

Simple Arlington Website Changes

A simple change to your Arlington website might include updating a paragraph on a page, swapping out an image, or adding a new page. This is just normal, routine website maintenance to keep content fresh for both search engines and visitors.

Arlington Site Performance Improvements

Let us check your Arlington 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

It's important to keep your Arlington 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 Arlington 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 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 Arlington and beyond!

Add Structured Data

When you search Google organically, have you noticed reviews or prices in the 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 Arlington, and ecommerce product or some other common data type.

Add Open Graph to 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 Arlington 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 Arlington website, it is important to setup conversion tracking. 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 Arlington 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

Is your website ready for live chat? If you'd like us to recommend the best live chat system for your Arlington 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

If spambots are attacking your Arlington website, we can setup a checkbox or invisible reCaptcha to help minimize unwanted submissions on your forms.

Setup a Caching Plugin

Looking to install a caching plugin on your Arlington website, but not sure how to configure it? We can recommend caching plugins, or we can install and configure them for you!

Send Website Emails Over SMTP

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

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 Arlington website? Let us help you create one-time or scheduled backups that you can store locally or offsite.

Create a Development Website

It is often recommended that you setup a development or staging website before proceeding with a major upgrade or extension installation. If you'd like help creating and managing that development / staging site, just let us know!

Create A/B Testing Rules

Would you like to make changes to your Arlington website based on statistical data? We can help you run A/B testing to help you decide which design or content layouts are best.

Create 301 Redirects

Have you launched a new website or removed pages? You will want to create 301 redirects for your Arlington website to prevent broken pages from hurting your SEO. Having broken pages will cost your Arlington 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 Arlington website? If your Arlington 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 Arlington, TX Websites

With years of experience developing websites for Arlington 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 support agency for Arlington websites tends to service only the following platforms:

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

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

Questions to Ask Arlington, TX Website Maintenance Firms

Ask the Arlington 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 experience you will have with their professional Texas website maintenance services before you submit payment and provide website access. Let's go over some simple questions to ask:

• How do you handle website security? Do you run security scans of customer websites?
• When can I expect an average Arlington web support request to be completed?
• Is your Arlington website support outsourced?
• How much might it cost to maintain an average Arlington website?
• Do you have minimum deductions or minimum billable expenses for Arlington 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 Arlington 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.

Arlington, TX Web Maintenance Plans and Tips

Companies in and around Arlington often ask us for a website maintenance plan to establish routines and procedures. We are happy to help your Arlington business develop a web support 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 Arlington website support tasks to review:

• Ask your web hosting company if they have newer servers you can migrate to.
• Check if your website platform is releasing a major upgrade in the near future which will require a major overhaul of your website.
• 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 Arlington.
• Take a look at the websites of your competitors (even those outside Arlington) 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.
• 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.

Here is a list of semi-annual Arlington web maintenance tasks to consider:

• 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.
• 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 Arlington.
• If you have an automated image optimization service, verify it is working properly.
• See if there are any console errors on the website.

Read through this list of monthly Arlington website maintenance tasks to review:

• Check for broken links on your website, which negatively impact user experience and SEO.
• Make sure your website isn't having performance issues after recent updates.
• 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.

The Cost of Web Support Service in Arlington, TX

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