Seattle Website Maintenance Services

What is Involved in Maintaining Seattle, WA Websites

We see web maintenance as a reactive support service where we provide your Seattle business with the right web developer resources to fix just about any problem. These are some examples of website issues that Seattle website maintenance agencies might fix:

• Making sure your website's platform is up to date.
• Keeping apps and plugins updated for better security and functionality.
• Adding new web pages as you release new information.
• Writing new blog content to help you stay fresh.
• Rearranging your Seattle site'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.
• Enhancing technical SEO with structured data, open graph tags, etc.
• Providing solutions to other website problems.

These are just a few of the Seattle website support services we offer. In fact, Seattle web maintenance is basically anything a web developer or digital marketer does to your website.

Reactive Seattle Website Support

The reason we consider web maintenance to be a reactive service is that most Seattle 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 Seattle website running smoothly. However, we can offer some proactive Seattle web support services.

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Proactive Seattle Website Support

For website owners in Seattle 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 Seattle, you probably love the Seattle Seahawks football team. Go Seattle Seahawks! In addition to supporting Seattle-area websites, our website support company also offers Auburn, Bellevue, Bellingham, Everett, Kennewick, Kent, Kirkland, Redmond, Renton, Spokane, Tacoma, and Vancouver small businesses and large corporations help with their websites.

Who Needs Website Maintenance in Seattle, WA

There will come a time when every Seattle website needs some sort of maintenance. It's just that the internet changes all the time. But don't worry, our Seattle web support costs aren't too high, so you can afford it! There are a few reasons why a website in Seattle might need maintenance:

• When a hosting provider upgrades their servers, they may remove older versions of PHP that your Seattle website was originally developed to support. 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. 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". Seattle-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. This is time-consuming, and often happens when the website owner isn't paying attention to the first two website support examples.
• You need to refresh your Seattle website content when it's outdated or doesn't explain your organization, products, or services well enough for future visitors. Maintaining your Seattle website is key to making sure it's working for you.

Above and beyond just updating something, there are plenty of reasons why a website might need maintenance. Plan your budget and schedules for website support and maintenance based on your Seattle business's potential future needs.

How We Perform Seattle, WA Web Maintenance

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

Most Seattle 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. We can then work on the ticket without delay, which leads to faster turnaround and easier internal communication.

The process for Seattle web support services that come from phone or chat is similar. 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 Seattle, WA Businesses

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

Simple Seattle Website Tweaks

Changes to your Seattle website could be as simple as updating a paragraph, swapping images, or adding a new page. This is just normal, routine web support to keep content fresh for both search engines and visitors.

Seattle Page Speed Improvements

Let us check your Seattle 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 Updates

If your Seattle 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.

Extension / Plugin Updates

It's important to update your Seattle 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.

Fixing Search Console Issues

Did Google Search Console tell you about a coverage problem? 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 Seattle 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 Seattle, 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

Would you like to manage custom scripts more easily with Google Tag Manager? No problem at all! We'll happily install Google Tag Manager on your Seattle website and teach you how to use it.

Implement Conversion Tracking

Tracking conversions is important if you want to understand the benefits of online advertising for your Seattle website. 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 Seattle website? 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!

Integrate a Live Chat

Would you like to try live chat? If you'd like us to recommend the best live chat system for your Seattle 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? To stop recurring error messages, we can diagnose the problem and update programming code.

Reduce Spam with reCaptcha

To reduce unwanted submissions on your Seattle website, we can setup an invisible or checkbox reCaptcha.

Setup a Caching Plugin

Looking to install a caching plugin on your Seattle 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

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

Restrict Malicious IP Addresses

Have you been getting fake orders, contact submissions, or live chats from a particular network? We can help setup IP restrictions to prevent malicious traffic from interacting with your website.

Run Website & Database Backups

Would you like a backup of your Seattle 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 Seattle 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 Seattle website. We've seen businesses in and around Seattle 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 Seattle website? If your Seattle 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 Seattle, WA Websites

With years of experience developing websites for Seattle businesses (and those in other areas of the country), our web designers and web developers have been immersed in multiple platforms. Nevertheless, mastering a handful of platforms is better than trying to be an expert on everything. Therefore, we tend to only maintain Seattle websites on these platforms:

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

As a website maintenance firm, we used to maintain and support Joomla and Magento websites for Seattle-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 Seattle, WA Web Maintenance Firms

Ask the Seattle web support company some questions about their services before you sign up for a package. 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:

• Can you tell me how you handle website security? Do you run website security scans for clients?
• When can I expect an average Seattle web maintenance request to be completed?
• Do you outsource your Seattle website maintenance services?
• How much might it cost to maintain an average Seattle website?
• Are there any minimum deductions or minimum billable expenses for Seattle 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 Seattle 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.

Seattle, WA Website Support Plans and Tips

Companies in and around Seattle often ask us for a web maintenance plan to establish routines and procedures. Whether it's your website, hosting, or domain name, we'll make sure your Seattle business has a website maintenance plan to ensure optimum performance.

Check out this list of annual Seattle web 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.
• Check if your website platform is releasing a major upgrade in the near future which will require a major overhaul of your website.
• 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 Seattle.
• Take a look at the websites of your competitors (even those outside Seattle) to see if you're missing out on anything.
• 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.

Read through this list of semi-annual Seattle website support 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 have access to your DNS.
• Find out if your SSL certificate will expire soon.
• Verify your website backup schedule is working properly, and you have remote backups outside of Seattle.
• If you have an automated image optimization service, verify it is working properly.
• Make sure the website doesn't throw any console errors.

Read through this list of monthly Seattle 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's anything wrong being reported within 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 Web Maintenance Service in Seattle, WA

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