Bridgeport, WV Website Maintenance Services

Our Bridgeport, WV Website Maintenance Services

We view web maintenance to be a reactive support service that provides your Bridgeport business with the appropriate web developer resources to solve nearly any website problem. There are many examples of website issues that might require service from Bridgeport web maintenance companies, including:

• Upgrading your website platform to the latest version.
• Updating apps and plugins to make them safer and more functional.
• Adding new pages whenever you release something new.
• Freshen up your blog with new content.
• Rearranging your Bridgeport website's navigation menu.
• Improving page speed to help you 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.
• 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 Bridgeport web support might look like. In fact, Bridgeport website support is really anything a web developer or digital marketer does to your website to change it in some manner.

In addition to supporting Bridgeport-area websites, our web maintenance firm also offers Charleston, and Morgantown small businesses and large corporations help with their websites.

Pricing for Bridgeport, WV Website Maintenance

The starting price for our 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.

If you purchase a website maintenance retainer, there are no contracts, hidden fees, expirations, or minimum deductions.

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, working on the request, providing feedback, and logging the task usually takes at least 10 minutes of time.

To keep you informed of the time usage on your pre-purchased web maintenance retainer, you'll receive a monthly update letting you know how much time remains on your account.

Our Bridgeport, WV Website Management Services

Tired of being warned about available updates? Worried about website downtime? Let our web development team take care of both worries through proactive website management!

Here is a list of what is included in our website management plans:

1.) Proactive Website Updates

We have an in-house team of website experts ready to perform platform updates, theme updates, and plugin/extension updates on a quarterly or monthly schedule for WordPress or WooCommerce websites!

1. Backup: We start by taking backups of your website files and database.
2. Update: Next, we manually install any available updates on your website.
3. Test: After the updates have been installed, we test your website for issues.
4. Finalize: If the upgrades were successful, you'll be better protected against security threats and malware! If the updates aren't successful, we'll discuss next steps.

2.) Remote Website Backups

We store remote backups of your website and database to minimize the risk of data loss.

3.) Website Uptime Monitoring

We monitor your website for service outages within our uptime monitoring system.

If your website goes down, an alert will be sent to our web developers to allow us to investigate the issue.

Pricing for Bridgeport, WV Website Management

Our website management plans are offered in monthly and quarterly options. This allows you to choose how often our team processes remote backups and installs available website updates.

The Platforms We Maintain for Bridgeport, WV Websites

We have a diverse team of web designers and web developers, for Bridgeport businesses, who have been immersed in multiple website platforms over the years. That said, it is better to become a master of a handful of platforms rather than try to specialize in them all. For that reason, our web support company for Bridgeport websites tends to service only the following platforms:

• Bridgeport WordPress Web Maintenance
• Bridgeport WooCommerce Web Maintenance
• Bridgeport Shopify Website Maintenance

In the past, we provided website maintenance and support for Joomla and Magento platforms of Bridgeport 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.

Example Website Support Service List for Bridgeport, WV Businesses

We are often asked for detailed examples of Bridgeport web maintenance requests that might come up after the launch of a website. Here are several examples of Bridgeport website maintenance services we've been asked to perform in the past and would be more than happy to provide to you!

Simple Bridgeport Website Changes

Your Bridgeport website might need a paragraph updated, an image changed, or a new page added. Keeping content fresh for search engines and visitors is just normal, routine web support.

Bridgeport Website Speed Improvements

We can analyze your Bridgeport website for hosting issues, caching issues, unoptimized images, console errors, broken links, poor queries, and more if it's slow. This will help improve page load times, which are beneficial to user experience and search engine optimization.

Platform Upgrades / Security Patches

It's important to keep your Bridgeport 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.

Extension / Plugin Updates

If your Bridgeport 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 can review the coverage issues, fix the problems, and update you on the results. By making Google happy, you'll boost your search engine rankings throughout Bridgeport and beyond!

Add 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 of describing content on the web, whether it's a local business in Bridgeport or an ecommerce product.

Add Open Graph Tags 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 Bridgeport business.

Add Google Tag Manager

Interested in using Google Tag Manager for managing custom scripts? No problem at all! We can add Google Tag Manager to your Bridgeport website and even give you a crash course in using Google Tag Manager.

Setup Conversion Tracking

If you are interested in understanding the benefit of an online advertising campaign for your Bridgeport website, it is important to setup conversion tracking. This will help you understand where your conversions are coming from, such as a Google search or a Bing Ads campaign.

Optimize Images

Do you have a Bridgeport website that's slow because of large images? Not a problem! 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? 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 Bridgeport business!

Review Error Logs for Issues

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

Integrate reCaptcha on Contact Forms

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

Setup a Caching Plugin

Are you interested in installing a caching plugin in your Bridgeport 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

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

Is your Bridgeport website getting fake orders, contact submissions, or live chats? We can help setup IP restrictions to prevent malicious traffic from interacting with your website.

Create Website Backups

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

Create a Testing 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!

Implement A/B Testing

Do you prefer to make design changes based on statistical data regarding how users interact with your Bridgeport 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.

Setup 301 Redirects

Do you have a new website or are you removing pages? You will want to create 301 redirects for your Bridgeport website to prevent broken pages from hurting your SEO. Businesses in and around Bridgeport have lost a lot of organic traffic because of broken pages. It is a very common mistake when launching new websites, removing content pages, or disabling product pages. We can help you create 301 redirects within .htaccess files, nginx templates, and CMS platforms.

Provide Website Training

Want to learn how to make simple edits to your Bridgeport website? We'll be happy to help if your Bridgeport site was built on a platform we work with, such as WordPress or Shopify.

Questions to Ask Bridgeport, WV Website Support Firms

Before signing up for any Bridgeport web maintenance package, it is important to ask the Bridgeport website maintenance company some questions about how their services work. This will help you get a better idea of the experience you will have with their premium West Virginia website support services before you submit payment and provide website access. Let's go over some simple questions to ask:

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

Bridgeport, WV Web Maintenance Plans and Tips

We are often asked for a web maintenance plan by larger companies in and around Bridgeport looking to establish routines and procedures within their IT department. We are happy to help your Bridgeport business develop a website maintenance plan to ensure all aspects of your website, hosting, and domain name are routinely checked to ensure optimum performance and uptime.

Annual Bridgeport web support tasks

• Check if your web hosting provider has newer servers that your account can be migrated to.
• Ask your web developer if your website has a major platform release coming up that will require a lot of work to install.
• 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 Bridgeport) to see if you're missing out on any competitive advantages they have over you.
• Perform a full security review of your website to ensure nothing has been compromised or left vulnerable.
• 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.

Semi-annual Bridgeport website support tasks

• 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.
• Verify your website backup schedule is working properly, and you have remote backups outside of Bridgeport.
• Make sure you're running an image optimization service.
• See if there are any console errors on the website.

Monthly Bridgeport web maintenance tasks

• Ensure your website doesn't have any broken links, which affect user experience and SEO.
• Check for website performance issues from recent updates or changes on the website.
• Check Google Search Console for any coverage issues.
• Update some of your service pages or blog articles to keep your website fresh.
• Take a look at your website platform and extensions for any available updates.

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