Vancouver Website Maintenance Services

What is Involved in Maintaining Vancouver, WA Websites

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

• Updating your website platform.
• Installing app or plugin updates to improve security and functionality.
• Adding new web pages as you release new products or services.
• Writing new blog content to help you stay fresh.
• Rearranging your Vancouver website's navigation menu.
• Making your page faster to pass Google Core Web Vitals.
• Taking backups of your website's files and databases.
• Changing the look and feel of your website.
• Troubleshooting Google Search Console coverage issues.
• Improving technical SEO by adding structured data, open graph tags, etc.
• Providing solutions to other website problems.

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

Reactive Vancouver Website Support

The reason we consider website support to be a reactive service is that most Vancouver website owners wouldn't want a web developer going into their website and changing things around without their knowledge. When you choose to have our company maintain your Vancouver website, we'll be your web support team on standby for any request. There are some website maintenance services we can provide your Vancouver website in a proactive manner though.

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Proactive Vancouver Website Support

We're happy to help website owners in Vancouver who need proactive website upkeep! There are several web support services, including platform upgrades, app / extension updates, website backups, performance monitoring, and broken link monitoring, that our website maintainers can handle in a proactive manner.

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

Who Needs Web Maintenance in Vancouver, WA

There will come a time when every Vancouver website needs some sort of maintenance. It's because the internet is always changing. However, we don't charge a lot for Vancouver website maintenance, so you'll be able to afford it! Here are some common reasons why a website in Vancouver might require web support services:

• When a hosting company upgrades their servers, they may remove older versions of PHP that your Vancouver 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. 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. 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. As a result, Magento 1.x ecommerce businesses in Vancouver were looking for ecommerce developers to help migrate their websites.
• 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 can be a time-consuming activity, and often happens because the website owner wasn't being mindful of the first two website support examples, listed above.
• You need to refresh your Vancouver website content when it's outdated or doesn't explain your organization, products, or services well enough for future visitors. Keeping your Vancouver 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. Plan your budget and schedules for website support and maintenance based on your Vancouver business's potential future needs.

How We Perform Vancouver, WA Web Maintenance

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

A Vancouver web support service usually starts with an email from you. Your email gets routed to our ticket system and automatically gets assigned to your project manager. From there, anyone on our team can work on the ticket without delay, leading to faster turnaround time and simplified internal communication.

For requests that originate from phone or live chat, a similar process to handling your Vancouver website support services unfolds. 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 Web Maintenance Service List for Vancouver, WA Businesses

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

Simple Vancouver Website Updates

A simple change to your Vancouver website might include updating a paragraph on a page, swapping out an image, or adding a new page. These are just normal, routine web support tasks to keep content fresh for both search engines and visitors.

Vancouver Page Speed Improvements

We can analyze your Vancouver 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 Patches

It's important to keep your Vancouver website updated if it runs on a CMS like WordPress. Updates help improve security and functionality - and they're usually quick, so it might be a simple task.

Plugin / Extension Updates

It's important to update your Vancouver website's plugins and extensions to reflect 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 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. This will help your search engine rankings, throughout Vancouver and beyond, by making Google happy!

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 to describe the content on a webpage, whether it's a local Vancouver business, or an ecommerce product.

Add Open Graph Tags 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.

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'll happily install Google Tag Manager on your Vancouver website and teach you how to use it.

Add Conversion Tracking

Tracking conversions is important if you want to understand the benefits of online advertising for your Vancouver website. This will help you understand where your conversions are coming from, such as a Google search or a Bing Ads campaign.

Optimize Images

Are large images slowing down your Vancouver website? Not 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? If you'd like us to recommend the best live chat system for your Vancouver business, install the tracking code, and customize the design for your branding, we can do it!

Review Error Log Files

Are your error_log files big? To stop recurring error messages, we can diagnose the problem and update programming code.

Setup reCaptcha on Forms

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

Setup a Caching Plugin

Are you interested in installing a caching plugin in your Vancouver website, but not sure how to properly configure the settings for best website performance? We can help recommend caching plugins, or just install and configure them for you!

Implement 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 IP Addresses

Have you been getting fake orders, contact submissions, or live chats from a particular network? Our team can help set up IP restrictions so your website doesn't get hit with as much malicious traffic.

Create Website Backups

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

Create a Staging 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 Vancouver web page? A/B testing can help you decide between two or more design layouts based on the data collected.

Add 301 Redirects

Are you launching a new website or removing pages from your website? You will want to create 301 redirects for your Vancouver website to prevent broken pages from hurting your SEO. Having broken pages will cost your Vancouver business a lot of organic traffic if they aren't fixed with 301 redirects. We can help you create 301 redirects within .htaccess files, nginx templates, and CMS platforms.

Offer Website Training

Do you need help learning how to make changes to your Vancouver website? If your Vancouver 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 Vancouver, WA Websites

With years of experience developing websites for Vancouver 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. Because of that, we tend to service only these platforms for Vancouver websites:

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

In the past, we provided website maintenance and support for Joomla and Magento platforms of Vancouver businesses. However, we chose not to use those platforms so our web support experts could focus on training and support within the more popular platforms.

Questions to Ask Vancouver, WA Website Support Firms

Ask the Vancouver web maintenance 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 Washington web support services prior to making payment and providing website access. You can ask these simple questions:

• How do you handle website security? Do you run security scans of customer websites?
• What is the turnaround time for Vancouver website support requests?
• Do you outsource your Vancouver web maintenance services?
• How much does Vancouver website maintenance cost?
• Are there any minimum deductions or minimum billable expenses for Vancouver website updates?
• What are your normal hours of operation?
• When there are new updates on my platform, will you let me know?

If you ask these questions to a Vancouver 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.

Vancouver, WA Website Support Plans and Tips

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

Read through this list of annual Vancouver website maintenance tasks to consider:

• Ask your web hosting company if they have newer servers you can migrate to.
• Check if your website platform has a new major release that will require an extensive website migration.
• 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 Vancouver.
• Check out competitor sites (even those outside of Vancouver) 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.
• Verify structured data, open graph, and social links are all working properly.
• Remove any unnecessary 3rd party tracking, live chat, or heat map scripts that may have been installed in the past.
• Take down any unnecessary development or staging sites.

Here is a list of semi-annual Vancouver web support tasks to consider:

• 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 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.
• Find out if your SSL certificate will expire soon.
• Verify your website backup schedule is working properly, and you have remote backups outside of Vancouver.
• Check if you have an automated image optimization service running.
• Check if the website is throwing any console errors.

Check out this list of monthly Vancouver website support tasks to consider:

• Look for broken links on your website, which hurts SEO and user experience.
• Check for website performance issues from recent updates or changes on the website.
• 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.
• Check if there are available platform or extension updates.

The Cost of Web Maintenance Service in Vancouver, WA

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