Website support & maintenance

This one’s also an integral part of developing a website. Maintenance is understandably one of your primary considerations while you venture out to find the right developing service for your business. While purchasing a car, the after-sales service offered by the company remains one of your most important considerations. Similarly, maintenance support from your website's developing agency is an immense factor that impacts your final decision-making.

What should your website maintenance be like?

After-delivery services, precisely, support services need to back the development process of your online store! So, what do we actually mean by the regular maintenance of your site? Checking your site could be done daily, weekly, and monthly. Our checking parameters essentially involve some of these…

• Whether all pages are loading without errors
• Check for all 404 links
• Running a backup to ensure that the previous version of the site is stored
• The spam comments from your posts and product pages need to be removed
• The website loading speed needs to be checked
• The website analytics need to be checked and compared with the previous report (monthly/bi-monthly)
• Website testing across multiple devices and browsers is crucial

Why go for website support?

Proper maintenance of your website would help you out with a lot of things. For instance, website updating is important as it directly impacts the Google rankings of the site. Websites that haven't been updated might be de-indexed by Google as well. Hence, website maintenance is one of the SEO strategies for your website!

You should seriously think over a website support service taking into consideration the following –

• • The size and purpose of your website
• • How much of the site contains customized content?
• • Whether the website is currently out-of-date
• • What would be the maintenance cost for your site?

Considering these parameters would indeed lend you a clear idea of all the aspects of site support – SEO, updates and security check, hosting, backups, and so on. So, what have you decided?