Website maintenance is the discipline of consistently assessing your website for errors, performance and updating it regularly for relevance. Proper maintenance includes auditing outdated plugins, website backups, page speed, SEO performance, broken links, security vulnerabilities, and visitor analytics.
Maintenance can even include content and design updates by a web developer.
Website maintenance includes reports that measure and track your website’s overall performance. Unfortunately, many churches often overlook website maintenance. As a result, many WordPress websites are not well maintained and quickly become vulnerable. The lack of care then threatens the time and money you’ve invested in a website.
Maintaining a website is crucial to secure the investment you made in an online presence.
Now you may be asking yourself, am I able to upgrade and maintain the website myself? Well, we’ve put together a list of how to keep your website maintained, then you can determine if the job is right for you.
Here are several steps you can take to ensure that your website is properly maintained.
A checklist is helpful if you know how to deliver it. Unfortunately, too often, many churches attempt to maintain their websites without the proper knowledge and skill. Some churches have the capital to hire a full-time web developer to handle all maintenance, while other churches cannot afford to hire a full-time web developer. When churches cannot afford to hire a full-time web developer, website maintenance services come in and solve this problem.
Website maintenance services simply handle all the technical ins and outs of your website. It’s like having your own personal go-to web developer without all the HR and necessity of a full-time salary.
If your company could use the savings but still have a dependable website developer, this is a recommended route.
The cost of website maintenance services varies based on what the service provider offers. However, we’ve seen pricing that can range from $50 – $400 monthly.
Website maintenance service is an investment. So a question to consider is this: would you rather pay an employee $3,000 – $6,000 a month or a small fraction of this to ensure your website is maintained?
Not all website maintenance service providers are equal. But based on our research of different service providers, here is an overview of what your website maintenance service should include:
Is your website currently up to date? Do you have the web development skillset needed to deliver proper website maintenance?
If you are considering a website maintenance service, we would be happy to help you. We offer a 30-day money-back guarantee. We don’t provide website maintenance services through a contract. You can simply subscribe to one of our servicing packages based on your needs. We can help you.
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