Redmond Website Maintenance Services

What is Involved in Maintaining Redmond, WA Websites

Web maintenance is a reactive support service that connects you with the right web developer to fix nearly any website issue. These are some examples of website issues that Redmond web maintenance firms might fix:

• Making sure your website's platform is up to date.
• Updating apps and plugins to make them safer and more functional.
• Adding new web pages as you release new products or services.
• Freshen up your blog with new content.
• Rearranging your Redmond 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.
• Troubleshooting Google Search Console coverage issues.
• Adding structured data, open graph tags, etc.
• Providing solutions to other website problems.

These are just a few of the Redmond web support services we offer. Basically, Redmond website support is anything a web developer or internet marketer does to change your website.

Reactive Redmond Website Support

Most Redmond 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. Our agency will be your web support team on standby for any questions you have. However, we can offer some proactive Redmond website maintenance services.

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Proactive Redmond Website Support

For website owners in Redmond 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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In addition to supporting Redmond-area websites, our web support agency also offers Auburn, Bellevue, Bellingham, Everett, Kennewick, Kent, Kirkland, Renton, Seattle, Spokane, Tacoma, and Vancouver small businesses and large corporations help with their websites.

Who Needs Web Maintenance in Redmond, WA

Every Redmond website will need some website maintenance at some point. It's just that the internet changes all the time. But don't worry, our Redmond web support costs aren't too high, so you can afford it! Website maintenance in Redmond might be needed for these reasons:

• When a hosting company upgrades their servers, they may remove older versions of PHP that your Redmond website was originally developed to support. 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". Redmond-area ecommerce businesses running Magento 1.x found themselves looking for an ecommerce developer to help migrate their store.
• 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. In most cases, this happens because the website owner didn't pay attention to the first two website support examples.
• You need to refresh your Redmond website content when it's outdated or doesn't explain your organization, products, or services well enough for future visitors. Maintaining your Redmond website is key to making sure it's working for you.

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 Redmond business when planning budgets and schedules for website maintenance and support.

How We Perform Redmond, WA 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 Redmond business after the work is done.

Most Redmond website maintenance services start with an email from the website owner. Your email gets routed into our ticket system and automatically assigned to your project manager. Anyone on our team can work on the ticket without delay, resulting in faster turnaround time.

For requests that originate from phone or live chat, a similar process to handling your Redmond web support services unfolds. 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 Redmond, WA Businesses

We're often asked for examples of Redmond web maintenance requests after a website launches. We've performed these Redmond website maintenance services in the past, and would be happy to do it for you too!

Simple Redmond Website Tweaks

Your Redmond website might need a paragraph updated, an image changed, or a new page added. These are just normal, routine web support tasks to keep content fresh for both search engines and visitors.

Redmond Website Speed Improvements

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

Plugin / Extension Upgrades

It's important to update your Redmond website's plugins and extensions to reflect the latest changes by the developers. It's similar to updating the CMS platform since it helps patch security and functionality issues.

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. By making Google happy, you'll boost your search engine rankings throughout Redmond 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 Redmond, and ecommerce product or some other common data type.

Add Open Graph to Your Website

When people share links of your Redmond business on social media, your website will look better if you add Open Graph Tags. These tags help define an image, title, and description for your each page on your website.

Add Google Tag Manager

Would you like to manage custom scripts more easily with Google Tag Manager? That won't be a problem! We can add Google Tag Manager to your Redmond website and even give you a crash course in using Google Tag Manager.

Setup Conversion Tracking

It's important to setup conversion tracking for your Redmond 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 Redmond website? That won't be a problem! Using our image compression tools, we can compress all your images and even set up recurring compression for new images!

Integrate a Live Chat

Would you like to try live chat? Our experts can help you pick the right live chat system, install the tracking code, and customize the design to match your Redmond business branding!

Review Error 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 Redmond website, we can setup an invisible or checkbox reCaptcha.

Setup a Caching Plugin

Looking to install a caching plugin on your Redmond 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

We can configure your contact form and website platform to send emails through an SMTP account instead of PHP mail to improve email deliverability.

IP Address Restrictions

Is your Redmond 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.

Backup Your Website Files

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

Create a Development Website

When you're doing a major upgrade or extension installation, you should set up a development or staging site first. 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 Redmond 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 Redmond website. We've seen businesses in and around Redmond 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 Redmond website? If your Redmond 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 Redmond, WA Websites

For Redmond businesses, we have a team of web designers and web developers who have experience with multiple platforms. Nevertheless, mastering a handful of platforms is better than trying to be an expert on everything. Therefore, we tend to only maintain Redmond websites on these platforms:

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

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

Questions to Ask Redmond, WA Web Maintenance Firms

If you're thinking about signing up for any Redmond web support package, make sure you ask the company how their services work. By doing this, you'll be able to better understand your future experience with their professional Washington web maintenance services before you submit payment or provide website access. Here are some simple questions to ask:

• What kind of security do you have on your site? Do you scan client websites for security?
• What is the turnaround time for Redmond web maintenance requests?
• Are you outsourcing your Redmond website maintenance services?
• How much does Redmond web support cost?
• Are there any minimum deductions or minimum billable expenses for Redmond 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 a Redmond website services agency, you'll gain a better understanding of the future relationship, the security of your website, and the turnaround time for important maintenance requests.

Redmond, WA Web Maintenance Plans and Tips

Larger companies in and around Redmond often ask us for a website maintenance plan. Whether it's your website, hosting, or domain name, we'll make sure your Redmond business has a web support plan to ensure optimum performance.

Check out this list of annual Redmond website support tasks to review:

• Check if your web hosting provider has newer servers that your account can be migrated to.
• Check if your website platform has a new major release that will require an extensive website migration.
• 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 Redmond) 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.
• Take down any unnecessary development or staging sites.

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

• 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.
• Check that your hosting account isn't about to expire and you can access it.
• 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 Redmond 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 Redmond web 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 are any coverage issues in Google Search Console.
• 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 Redmond, WA

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