Five reasons to take a website maintenance plan.
The majority of customers search for any product, service, or information on the internet today. If your website is clean, well-structured, and impactful, customers will have an immediate positive impact in their minds; and the chances are they buy your products or subscribe to your services.
Imagine that you have an e-com store, a first-time visitor comes to your website to buy a particular product, but the web page takes too much time to load! You lost a customer there. Taking out a website maintenance plan ensures we catch any website issues ahead of time. Allowing you to get more sales.
You can turn your website visitors into loyal and returning customers if they are happy with your website. And satisfied customers = more sales!
Consumers in this era are very picky about their choice of brand, products, and services. They will only stick to you if your website is customer-friendly and well maintained among thousands of other options.
As a company, you are responsible for customer’s personal information. That is why securing your website from cyberattacks, or any malware is essential. You can achieve this with our website maintenance services.
What is Website Maintenance?
Everybody thinks of having a great website. Whether you are a blogger, a small business, or a big corporate firm you need a good website, It represents your brand value and gives you an identity. But very few people emphasise its maintenance.
Website maintenance keeps your website hygienic, error-free, secure and creates a great impression on your potential leads and customers.
Website maintenance is- “regularly checking your website for any issues or errors, fixing them up, and making your site up to date.”
Recurring or Regular Website Maintenance Task
Some tasks should be performed regularly and at specific time intervals to run your website smoothly:
Annual Website Maintenance Tasks
- Check if your website design and structure is up to date or can be improved.
- Check if your website is mobile-friendly.
- Review your web pages’ meta descriptions and tags according to Google’s criteria.
- Test if pop-ups, buttons, forms, or any other Call To Action utilities work efficiently.
- Check if Ad campaigns, marketing campaigns, and sales funnels work correctly.
- Review if graphics and images on the website are relevant and optimized.
- Test the backup plan by reloading the previous version of your website.
- Ensure Malware and other security software work accurately.
Quarterly Website Maintenance Tasks
- Check if your website domain is renewed.
- Update date references with the current year.
- Review your old blog posts and update them according to the present facts and situations.
- Review top-performing keywords and place them correctly on your blog posts and pages.
- Proofreading all the website pages and articles for grammar mistakes, typos, and relevancy.
- Check if any active email address is unnecessary and can be deleted.
Monthly Website Maintenance Tasks
- Run a security check to ensure that your website is safe.
- Analyze monthly website traffic and take necessary actions.
- Analyze top-performing pages and keywords, and take necessary steps.
- Update old blog posts and images.
- Update your website’s essential software and plug-ins.
Weekly Website Maintenance Tasks
- Find broken links present on your site and fix them.
- Find 404 links and redirect them.
- Remove any spam comments from blog posts.
- Write 1-2 blog posts to keep up the website traffic.
- Check the page loading speed of every page on the website.
How Much Does Website Maintenance Cost and Packages
Website Maintenance cost depends upon the type of website you are running.
Type of Website and Its Rough Estimation For Website Maintenance:
| Hobby Website | Personal Website Or Blog | Business Website |
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| Monthly cost: $3 to $25 | Monthly cost: $3 to $25 | Monthly cost: $50 to $2750 |
| E-Commerce Site/Online Store | Enterprise-Level Website |
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| Monthly cost: $50 to $6000+ | Monthly cost: $5000 to $9000+ |
Website Maintenance Packages
SCube.co offers website maintenance packages according to your needs and budget. Check out our Monthly and Hourly Website Maintenance Packages and find out the best suitable plan for you.
Monthly Website Maintenance Packages
| Features | Security Patch And CMS Plan From $199/Month | From $199/Month To $499/Month | After – Hours Maintenance Plan From $1000-4599/Month |
| Website Updates | Yes | Yes | Yes |
| Design and Development Hours | Yes | Yes | Yes |
| Quarterly CMS Security Patches | Yes | Yes | Yes |
| Annual CMS Upgradation | Yes | Yes | Yes |
| Daily Security Scan | Yes | Yes | Yes |
| SSL Certificate | Yes | Yes | Yes |
| E-Commerce Support | Yes | Yes | Yes |
Hourly Website Maintenance Packages
| Features | Design And Development From $100/Month | Full – Web Maintenance Plan From $100/Month | After – Hours Maintenance Plan From $150/Month |
| Website Updates | Yes | Yes | Yes |
| Design and Development Hours | – | – | – |
| Online Support | Yes | Yes | Yes |
Services included in Website Maintenance.
Domain Registration
Your domain name knows your website. It’s unique for business. It would just cost around $0.80 to $2 per month.
If you don’t claim a domain name you desire, it will cost you to lose one permanently. Domains need to be renewed every year. Website Maintenance includes purchasing and restoring your domain name.
SSL Certification
An active SSL, i.e. Secure Socket Layer Certificate, protects your website and your customer’s information. It allows your site to receive, transfer and secure sensitive data.
SSL certificate updates your URL from “HTTP” to “HTTPS, ” giving you more authority. It costs a company anywhere between $1 to $125 per month.
Hosting
Website Hosting plays an equally important role in your website as the domain name. It gives access to your website from around the world.
There are different hosting plans like shared, VPS, etc. Hosting costs around $2 to $899 per month.
Content
Content creation includes creating necessary text, graphics, banners, etc., for keeping the website updated. It can cost you depending on your requirement, anywhere between $20 to $5000 per month.
General Website Updates
General website updates include updating Images, Graphics, Updating existing articles, fixing links, image optimization, etc. The price ranges between $10 to $200 per month for a small business website.
CMS Updates
The Content Management System like WordPress, Joomla, Squarespace, etc has subscription fees and needs to be updated frequently along with its additional services, plug-ins, etc.
Businesses spend $10 to $5000 per month on CMS Updates depending upon their utility cost.
Tech Support
Technical support is the backbone of any website. Tech support includes fixing broken and lost links, optimizing website speed, running a security scan, finding out errors, checking for image loading speed, and a lot more.
Technical support is one of the most expensive services under Website Maintenance that can cost you between $100 to $10000 per month
SEO
Whether you are a product company or a service provider, or even if you are a blogger, you would want to rank on Google’s first page! That’s where SEO experts come into the picture.
Investing in SEO would cost you around $50 to $2000 per month, but multiply the returns in terms of customers, sales leads in the longer run.
Security
Security service comprises scanning your website for any suspicious malware or viruses, finding and fixing them, checking the privacy and data storage, etc., under Website Maintenance. You would most probably spend $10 to $500 on this service per month.
Tracking and Analysis
Tracking your website’s monthly traffic can give you insights into its performance, marketing strategy, and position on the web. It can tell you some unique factors about your website like its unique visitors, average time on site, bounce rate, etc.
Tracking and Analysis require tools like Google Search Console. This service can cost you around $10 to $30 per month.
Website Maintenance Checklist to Consider While Buying A Website Maintenance Plan:
Daily Website Maintenance Tasks:
- Respond to your customer or other prospects’ queries daily.
Weekly Website Maintenance Tasks:
- Take a back-up of your website data.
- Update your Content Management System and other plug-ins if necessary.
- Write 1-2 blog posts to give updates about your business and engage with your audience.
- Check for broken links and fix them up.
Quarterly Website Maintenance Tasks:
- Track your website traffic and analyse your goals accordingly.
- Update old content like old blog posts, and graphics, etc.
- Update your title tags.
- Tweak or update your meta descriptions.
- Check your page load speed.
- Test your forms or other pop-ups.
- Test your website on mobile devices and all types of browsers
- Remove unnecessary website plugins.
- Review company’s ‘contact us’ information and update as needed.
- Check your ordering process (if you are running ecommerce).
Monthly Website Maintenance Tasks:
- Analyse your web traffic and other statistics and make necessary changes.
- Tweak your calls to action buttons if needed.
- Update your content according to the current need.
- Add your business to local directories and frequently update it.
- Check for 404 (Page not found) errors and redirect if necessary.
Yearly Website Maintenance Tasks
- Update header and footer of websites according to current date.
- Update other date references on blog posts, pages, etc.
- Run a content check for more accuracy.
- Renew domain name of your website if needed.
- Review your overall goals and plan your web strategy accordingly.
- Examine the design of your website and make necessary changes.
Determining If You Should Buy Website Maintenance Packages
You Should Consider these seven factors before deciding whether to go with a Website Maintenance Plan:
- Size of your website.
- Purpose of your website.
- Your technical knowledge regarding website maintenance.
- Is your website up to date?
- Growth of your business.
- Your marketing strategy.
- How much bandwidth do you have for maintaining a website.
- Your budget.
Frequently Asked Questions
Every website needs to be maintained for its hygiene, security, and business purposes. However, it depends upon various factors like the purpose of your website, size of your website, growth of your business, marketing strategy, and budget concerns.
Website maintenance includes maintenance of a website on different levels. It majorly comprises – Technical support, Content Update, Security Check, Analysis and Tracking, etc.
Yes. We have a great designing team at SCube.co, who is passionate to create, edit, and customize your designs as per your requirements.
We offer different website maintenance packages for different types of websites. You can pay according to your requirements and demands. A small business website should usually cost you around $10 to $500 for the monthly maintenance. For more information, do check out our pricing page.
Our support team is at your service via email or message 24*7 while available on call during our working hours.
It depends on the number of service requests from a client. We will confirm the turnaround time after receiving the proposals within a few hours. Generally, we deliver the services within 48 business hours.
An agency that can fulfil all your website maintenance needs, from technical support, plug-ins, and CMS to security check and traffic analysis, and has its services at a feasible price, is a win-win.
Cambridgeshire (Cambourne, Huntington, Peterborough, Bedford, St Neots), London, Leicester, Nottingham, Coventry.
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