Garland, TX Website Maintenance Services

What is Involved in Maintaining Garland, TX Websites

We see web maintenance as a reactive support service where we provide your Garland business with the right web developer resources to fix just about any problem. Here are a few examples of website problems that might need Garland website support:

• Upgrading your website platform to the latest version.
• Installing app or plugin updates to improve security and functionality.
• Adding new pages whenever you release something new.
• Freshen up your blog with new content.
• Rearranging your Garland website's navigation menu.
• Making your page faster 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.
• Fixing Google Search Console coverage issues.
• Enhancing technical SEO with structured data, open graph tags, etc.
• Providing a solution to any other website problem.

The previously mentioned services are just a glimpse of what we view as possible Garland web maintenance services. In fact, Garland web maintenance is really anything a web developer or digital marketer does to your website to change it in some manner.

Reactive Garland Website Support

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

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Proactive Garland Website Support

For website owners in Garland interested in a proactive management service for some of their website upkeep requirements, we are happy to accommodate! 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 Garland-area websites, our web maintenance firm also offers Amarillo, Arlington, Austin, Brownsville, Corpus Christi, Dallas, El Paso, Fort Worth, Frisco, 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 Support in Garland, TX

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

• Hosting companies sometimes upgrade their servers, removing PHP versions that were used by your Garland website. That means you'll have to refactor your app or upgrade to a newer framework that supports the latest PHP release. You can't expect custom web functionality from the past to work forever.
• 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". Garland-area ecommerce businesses running Magento 1.x found themselves looking for an ecommerce developer to help migrate their store.
• An owner of a Garland 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 maintenance examples.
• To ensure future visitors to your Garland website receive accurate information about your organization, products, or services, your Garland website content needs to be refreshed. This type of website maintenance is critical to ensuring your Garland website is benefiting 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 web support and support, consider your Garland business's potential future needs.

How We Perform Garland, 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 Garland business after the work is done.

A Garland website maintenance service usually starts with an email from you. 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.

Phone or live chat requests follow a similar process to Garland web support. 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 Website Support Service List for Garland, TX Businesses

After the launch of a website, we're often asked for detailed examples of Garland web maintenance requests. The following are some examples of Garland web maintenance services we've provided in the past.

Simple Garland Website Changes

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

Garland Website Speed Improvements

We can analyze your Garland website for hosting issues, caching issues, unoptimized images, console errors, broken links, poor queries, and more if it's slow. User experience and SEO will both benefit from better page load times.

Platform Upgrades / Security Updates

If your Garland website is running on a content management system, like WordPress, it is important to keep the platform updated. 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 Garland website if they were developed and maintained by a third-party. This is similar to the idea of 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 Garland and beyond!

Implement 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 Garland, and ecommerce product or some other common data type.

Implement Open Graph 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

Are you interested in adding Google Tag Manager to your website to help you manage custom scripts more easily? Not a problem! We can add Google Tag Manager to your Garland website and even teach you how to use it.

Setup Conversion Tracking

It's important to setup conversion tracking for your Garland website if you want to understand the benefits of online advertising. It'll help you understand where your conversions come from, like direct traffic, referral links, organic search, or paid ads.

Image Compression (Optimization)

Are large images slowing down your Garland website? 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

Do you want to try live chat on your website? 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 Garland 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 Garland website, we can setup an invisible or checkbox reCaptcha.

Setup a Caching Plugin

Interested in installing a caching plugin for your Garland 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!

Implement 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 IP Addresses

Is your Garland website getting fake orders, contact submissions, or live chats? Our team can help set up IP restrictions so your website doesn't get hit with as much malicious traffic.

Backup Your Website Files

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

Create a Development 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 Garland 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 Garland website. We've seen businesses in and around Garland 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 Garland website? If your Garland 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 Garland, TX Websites

With years of experience developing websites for Garland businesses (and those in other areas of the country), our web designers and web developers have been immersed in multiple platforms. Having said that, it's better to master a few platforms than try to specialize in them all. For that reason, our web support agency for Garland websites tends to service only the following platforms:

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

As a website support firm, we used to maintain and support Joomla and Magento websites for Garland-area businesses. However, we chose to move away from those platforms to allow our web maintenance experts to focus more heavily on training and support within the other systems.

Questions to Ask Garland, TX Website Maintenance Firms

Ask the Garland website support company some questions about their services before you sign up for a package. It'll give you a better idea of the experience you'll have with their professional Texas website maintenance services prior to making payment and providing 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?
• What's the turnaround time for Garland web support?
• Are you outsourcing your Garland website support services?
• How much does Garland web maintenance cost?
• Are there any minimum deductions or minimum billable expenses for Garland 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 any Garland 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.

Garland, TX Web Support Plans and Tips

Companies in and around Garland often ask us for a website support plan to establish routines and procedures. We can help your Garland business set up a web maintenance plan so all aspects of your website, hosting, and domain name are monitored regularly.

Here is a list of annual Garland website maintenance tasks to review:

• Ask your web hosting company if they have newer servers you can migrate to.
• Ask your web developer if your website has a major platform release coming up that will require a lot of work to install.
• Restore a website backup to make sure the data is enough for full recovery. Also, make sure your backups are stored remotely.
• Check out competitor sites (even those outside of Garland) to see if you're missing out on any competitive advantages they have over you.
• Ensure your website is secure by performing a full security review.
• Ensure that structured data, open graph, and social links are all working.
• Verify the necessity of any 3rd party tracking, live chat, or heat map scripts that are installed.
• Delete any development or staging websites you don't need.

Read through this list of semi-annual Garland 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.
• 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.
• Make sure your SSL certificate isn't expiring soon.
• Make sure you have remote backups outside Garland 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 Garland website support tasks to review:

• Check for broken links on your website, which negatively impact user experience and SEO.
• Check your website for performance issues after recent updates or changes.
• 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.
• Check if there are available platform or extension updates.

The Cost of Web Maintenance Service in Garland, TX

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