Laredo, TX Website Maintenance Services

What is Involved in Maintaining Laredo, TX Websites

Web maintenance is a reactive support service that connects you with the right web developer to fix nearly any website issue. Here are a few examples of website problems that might need Laredo website maintenance:

• 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.
• Writing new blog content to help you stay fresh.
• Rearranging your Laredo site's navigation menu.
• Making your page faster to pass Google Core Web Vitals.
• Taking backups of your website's files and databases.
• Making your website look and feel better.
• Fixing Google Search Console coverage issues.
• Adding structured data, open graph tags, etc.
• Investigating the cause and providing a solution to any other website issue.

Those services are just a taste of what Laredo web support might look like. Basically, Laredo website support is anything a web developer or internet marketer does to change your website.

Reactive Laredo Website Support

Most Laredo website owners wouldn't want a web developer messing around with their site without their permission. That's why we consider web maintenance a reactive service. You can count on our agency to keep your Laredo website running smoothly. There are some website maintenance services we can provide your Laredo website in a proactive manner though.

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Proactive Laredo Website Support

Interested in a proactive website management service for some of your website upkeep? We're happy to help! 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 Laredo-area websites, our web support agency also offers Amarillo, Arlington, Austin, Brownsville, Corpus Christi, Dallas, El Paso, Fort Worth, Frisco, Garland, Grand Prairie, Houston, Irving, Lubbock, McKinney, Mesquite, Pasadena, Plano, and San Antonio small businesses and large corporations help with their websites.

Who Needs Web Maintenance in Laredo, TX

Every Laredo website will need some website maintenance at some point. It's because the internet is always changing. Not to worry though, our Laredo 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 Laredo might need maintenance:

• Hosting companies sometimes upgrade their servers, removing PHP versions that were used by your Laredo website. When this happens, you need to refactor your application or upgrade to a newer framework that supports the newer PHP version. There's no way you can expect custom web functionality to work forever.
• Content management systems or ecommerce platforms eventually deprecate old versions so their teams can focus on the new ones. This recently happened to Magento 1.x ecommerce store owners who were forced to migrate to Magento 2.x, or an alternative ecommerce platform, because Magento 1.x had reached an “End of Life” status and would no longer be maintained or updated by Magento. Because of that, Magento 1.x ecommerce businesses in Laredo were suddenly looking for an ecommerce developer to help migrate their website to a supported platform.
• An owner of a Laredo 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. In most cases, this happens because the website owner didn't pay attention to the first two website support examples.
• When the content on your Laredo website, which explains your organization, products, or services becomes outdated and needs to be refreshed to help ensure future visitors receive accurate information about your operation. Keeping your Laredo website up to date is key to its success.

There are many reasons why a website might need maintenance, other than just to update something. It is important to understand the future needs of your Laredo business when planning budgets and schedules for website maintenance and support.

How We Perform Laredo, TX Web Maintenance

Our professional web maintenance team puts in a lot of effort to understand your needs, schedule your work on time, and follow up with your Laredo business after the work is done.

A Laredo 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. 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 Laredo web support. The support request is entered into our ticket system by the person in the conversation with you, which allows the work order to be routed to the most appropriate web developer on our team.

Example Website Support Service List for Laredo, TX Businesses

We're often asked for examples of Laredo web maintenance requests after a website launches. The following are some examples of Laredo website maintenance services we've provided in the past.

Simple Laredo Website Changes

Changes to your Laredo 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.

Laredo Page Speed Improvements

Let us check your Laredo website for hosting, caching, image optimization, console errors, broken links, poor database queries, and other potential problems that might be impacting your page speed. User experience and SEO will both benefit from better page load times.

Platform Upgrades / Security Patches

Keeping your Laredo 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!

Plugin / Extension Upgrades

If your Laredo website has functionality developed and maintained by a third-party, it is important to update those plugins and extensions to include the latest changes by the developers. The idea is similar to updating the CMS platform since it fixes security and functionality problems.

Google Search Console Issues

Did you get a report from Google Search Console telling you about a coverage issue? 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 Laredo and beyond!

Setup Structured Data

Do you ever see product prices or reviews in Google organic search results? This is structured data, which is a standardized way of describing content on the web, whether it's a local business in Laredo 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 Laredo business.

Add Google Tag Manager

Would you like to manage custom scripts more easily with Google Tag Manager? Not a problem! We'll happily install Google Tag Manager on your Laredo website and teach you how to use it.

Setup Conversion Tracking

If you are interested in understanding the benefit of an online advertising campaign for your Laredo website, it is important to setup conversion tracking. Then you'll know where your conversions come from, whether it be direct traffic, organic search, or paid ads.

Image Optimization

Do you have a Laredo website that's slow because of large images? No problem at all! 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? If you'd like us to recommend the best live chat system for your Laredo business, install the tracking code, and customize the design for your branding, we can do it!

Review Error Logs for Issues

Have you noticed large error_log files on your hosting account? If you're getting recurring error messages, we can update programming code or fix platform issues.

Setup reCaptcha on Forms

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

Setup a Caching Plugin

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

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.

Restrict Malicious IP Addresses

Is your Laredo website being bombarded with fake orders, contact submissions or live chats from a specific network? If you want to protect your website from malicious traffic, we can help by implementing IP restrictions.

Create Website Backups

Do you want to create a backup of your Laredo website? We can help you create one-time or scheduled backups that store locally or at an offsite location.

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!

Implement A/B Testing

Do you prefer to make design changes based on statistical data regarding how users interact with your Laredo 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 Laredo website. We've seen businesses in and around Laredo 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 Laredo website? If your Laredo 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 Laredo, TX Websites

For Laredo businesses, we have a team of web designers and web developers who have experience with multiple platforms. Having said that, it's better to master a few platforms than try to specialize in them all. For that reason, our website support firm for Laredo websites tends to service only the following platforms:

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

In the past, we provided website maintenance and support for Joomla and Magento platforms of Laredo businesses. The reason we moved away from those platforms was to let our website support experts focus more on training and support.

Questions to Ask Laredo, TX Web Maintenance Firms

If you're thinking about signing up for any Laredo web support package, make sure you ask the company how their services work. It'll give you a better idea of the experience you'll have with their professional Texas web maintenance services prior to making payment and providing 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 Laredo web maintenance?
• Do you outsource your Laredo website maintenance services?
• How much might it cost to maintain an average Laredo website?
• Are there any minimum deductions or minimum billable expenses for Laredo website updates?
• What are your normal hours of operation?
• How will I know about new updates to my platform?

If you ask any Laredo website services firm these questions before subscribing to their website 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.

Laredo, TX Web Maintenance Plans and Tips

Larger companies in and around Laredo often ask us for a website maintenance plan. We can help your Laredo business set up a web support plan so all aspects of your website, hosting, and domain name are monitored regularly.

Here is a list of annual Laredo website 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.
• Ask your web developer if your website has a major platform release coming up that will require a lot of work to install.
• Attempt to restore a website backup to ensure the data being stored is sufficient for full recovery. Also make sure you are storing backups in a remote location away from Laredo.
• Take a look at the websites of your competitors (even those outside Laredo) to see if you're missing out on anything.
• Ensure your website is secure by performing a full security review.
• Verify structured data, open graph, and social links are all working properly.
• 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.

Check out this list of semi-annual Laredo web maintenance tasks to review:

• Ensure you have access to your domain name and that it isn't expiring soon. This will be helpful when you have to process a domain name renewal.
• Check your hosting account credentials and make sure it's not about to expire.
• Make sure you can access your DNS in case anything needs to be changed.
• Check if your SSL certificate will be expiring in the near future.
• Make sure you have remote backups outside Laredo and that your website backup schedule is working.
• If you have an automated image optimization service, verify it is working properly.
• Check if the website is throwing any console errors.

Check out this list of monthly Laredo web maintenance tasks to consider:

• Ensure your website doesn't have any broken links, which affect user experience and SEO.
• Check your website for performance issues after recent updates or changes.
• Check Google Search Console for any coverage issues.
• Update some of your service pages or blog articles to keep your website fresh.
• See if there are any updates for your website platform or extensions.

The Cost of Website Maintenance Service in Laredo, TX

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