Bellevue Website Maintenance Services

What is Involved in Maintaining Bellevue, WA Websites

We view website maintenance to be a reactive support service that provides your Bellevue business with the appropriate web developer resources to solve nearly any website problem. These are some examples of website issues that Bellevue web support companies might fix:

• 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 the navigation menu of your Bellevue website.
• Making your page faster to pass Google Core Web Vitals.
• Take backups of your website's files and databases.
• Changing the look and feel of your website.
• Fixing site audit issues or Google Search Console coverage problems.
• Enhancing technical SEO with 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 Bellevue web maintenance might look like. In fact, Bellevue web maintenance is really anything a web developer or digital marketer does to your website to change it in some manner.

Reactive Bellevue Website Support

Most Bellevue 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. There are some website support services we can provide your Bellevue website in a proactive manner though.

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Proactive Bellevue Website Support

We're happy to help website owners in Bellevue who need proactive website upkeep! 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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In addition to supporting Bellevue-area websites, our web maintenance firm also offers Auburn, Bellingham, Everett, Kennewick, Kent, Kirkland, Redmond, Renton, Seattle, Spokane, Tacoma, and Vancouver small businesses and large corporations help with their websites.

Who Needs Web Support in Bellevue, WA

At some point in time, every Bellevue website will require some form of website support. It's just that the internet changes all the time. Not to worry though, our Bellevue 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 Bellevue might require web maintenance services:

• When a hosting provider upgrades their servers, they may remove older versions of PHP that your Bellevue 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. You can't expect custom web functionality programmed in the past to work forever without any improvements.
• 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". As a result, Magento 1.x ecommerce businesses in Bellevue were looking for ecommerce developers to help migrate their websites.
• When a website owner has become a victim of malware or some other form of malicious activity, the Bellevue website will need to be reviewed for security exploits and cleaned of malware. This is time-consuming, and often happens when the website owner isn't paying attention to the first two website maintenance examples.
• When the content on your Bellevue 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 Bellevue 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 Bellevue business when planning budgets and schedules for website maintenance and support.

How We Perform Bellevue, WA Web Support

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

Most Bellevue web maintenance services start with an email from the website owner. 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 Bellevue website maintenance 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 Web Support Service List for Bellevue, WA Businesses

We are often asked for detailed examples of Bellevue website support requests that might come up after the launch of a website. We've performed these Bellevue web maintenance services in the past, and would be happy to do it for you too!

Simple Bellevue Website Changes

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

Bellevue Site Performance Improvements

If your Bellevue website isn't running as fast as it once was, we can review your website for hosting issues, caching issues, unoptimized images, console errors, broken links, poor queries, and much more. User experience and SEO will both benefit from better page load times.

Platform Upgrades / Security Updates

It's important to keep your Bellevue website updated if it runs on a CMS like WordPress. This helps improve security and functionality - sometimes the updates are relatively quick to perform, which is a win-win!

Extension / Plugin Updates

If your Bellevue 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 Fixes

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. By making Google happy, you'll boost your search engine rankings throughout Bellevue and beyond!

Setup 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 Bellevue business, or an ecommerce product.

Add Open Graph to 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 Bellevue business.

Add 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 Bellevue website and even give you a crash course in using Google Tag Manager.

Implement Conversion Tracking

Tracking conversions is important if you want to understand the benefits of online advertising for your Bellevue website. Then you'll know where your conversions come from, whether it be direct traffic, organic search, or paid ads.

Optimize Images

Is your Bellevue website slow because of large images? That won't be a problem! All your images can be compressed by our tools, and we can even setup recurring compression for newly added images!

Setup Live Chat

Is your website ready for 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 Bellevue business!

Review Error Logs for Issues

Have you noticed large error_log files on your hosting account? We can help diagnose the issue and update programming code or repair platform issues to prevent recurring error messages.

Reduce Spam with reCaptcha

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

Setup a Caching Plugin

Looking to install a caching plugin on your Bellevue website, but not sure how to configure it? We can help you figure out which caching plugins to install and configure on your website!

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

Is your Bellevue 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.

Create Website Backups

Do you want to create a backup of your Bellevue website? Let us help you create one-time or scheduled backups that you can store locally or offsite.

Create a Staging Website

It is often recommended that you setup a development or staging website before proceeding with a major upgrade or extension installation. Whenever you need help with creating and managing your development site, just let us know!

Create A/B Testing Rules

Are you a fan of making Bellevue web design changes 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.

Add 301 Redirects

Are you launching a new website or removing pages from your website? You should create 301 redirects for your Bellevue website. We've seen businesses in and around Bellevue 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 Bellevue website? If your Bellevue 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 Bellevue, WA Websites

We have a diverse team of web designers and web developers, for Bellevue businesses, who have been immersed in multiple website platforms over the years. Nevertheless, mastering a handful of platforms is better than trying to be an expert on everything. For that reason, our website maintenance firm for Bellevue websites tends to service only the following platforms:

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

As a web support company, we used to maintain and support Joomla and Magento websites for Bellevue-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 Bellevue, WA Web Maintenance Companies

Before signing up for any Bellevue web support package, it is important to ask the Bellevue website support company some questions about how their services work. By doing this, you'll be able to better understand your future experience with their professional Washington website maintenance services before you submit payment or 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 Bellevue web support request to be completed?
• Is your Bellevue website support outsourced?
• What are your Bellevue web maintenance costs?
• Are there any minimum deductions or minimum billable expenses for Bellevue 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?

We find it beneficial to run these questions by any Bellevue website services agency before subscribing to their website maintenance packages, since it will provide much better understanding for you regarding the future relationship, the security of your website, and the expected turnaround time for important maintenance requests.

Bellevue, WA Web Support Plans and Tips

We are often asked for a website support plan by larger companies in and around Bellevue looking to establish routines and procedures within their IT department. Whether it's your website, hosting, or domain name, we'll make sure your Bellevue business has a web maintenance plan to ensure optimum performance.

Here is a list of annual Bellevue website maintenance 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 Bellevue.
• Look at competitor websites (even those outside of Bellevue) to see if you are missing out on new functionality for your own customers.
• Ensure your website is secure by performing a full security review.
• 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.
• Remove any unnecessary development or staging websites.

Read through this list of semi-annual Bellevue web support 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.
• 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.
• Make sure you have remote backups outside Bellevue and that your website backup schedule is working.
• Make sure you're running an image optimization service.
• Check if the website is throwing any console errors.

Read through this list of monthly Bellevue website support tasks to review:

• Look for broken links on your website, which hurts SEO and user experience.
• Make sure your website isn't having performance issues after recent updates.
• Check Google Search Console for any coverage issues.
• 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 Maintenance Service in Bellevue, WA

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