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What is website maintenance?
Once a website goes live, many people feel unsure about how to safely maintain and update their website. And it’s important to protect it from potential hacks, breaches and other threats that can bring your site down and get you blacklisted from Google; removing you from all search results and destroying your Google rankings. It’s also important to keep the site plugins, tools and other areas of the site updated and optimized for security, page loading speeds and better SEO rankings.
My Website Maintenance Plans take the stress off of you in keeping your site safe and protected. I’m on your side making sure that month to month your site is protected, updated, maintained, and backed up. And when you’re on my plan, you’ll have a trusted webmaster you can reach out to at any point for help with updates, edits, additions or any potential website issues.
I also combine marketing strategy with all of my maintenance plans so you have your very own marketing consultant to help guide you with recommendations to grow and evolve your business. Choose from yearly, quaterly, or monthly strategy calls and recommendations.
How it works
What’s in the plan
My maintenenace plan includes the following primary services:
1. Updates & Optimization
I keep your site updated, maintained, cleaned, and running smooth and fast.
- WordPress, theme monitored & updated
- Site cleared and optimized weekly
- Plugins monitored and updated
2. Monitoring & Protection
Your site is monitored and protected from spam, malware and other evil internet forces.
- Website scanning & monitoring protection
- Preventative hack measures & tools in place
- Hosting through Siteground
3. Backups & Restore Points
Your site is backed up weekly in multiple locations and can be restored at any time.
- Daily website backups
- On & off-site backup locations
4. Monthly Reports
I will send you a monthly report of your page views, site traffic and more.
- Monthly google analytics report of page views, site traffic details and more
- Detailed reports on what’s been done to keep your site updated and secure.
5. Strategy
Your digital marketing strategy isn’t complete when your website launches. As your business grows and evolves, I want to partner with you as your marketing consultant.
- Yearly, quaterly, or monthly strategy calls.*
- Recommendations to how we can help your business grow.
*Don’t always have time for these calls? That’s fine! When we can’t make one work, I will still send you recommendations.
6. Website & Marketing Support
Stressed about taking over your website? There is no need to fret with my maintenance plan!
- I will take care of any website updates you might have (1-2 hours) every month!
- I can implement any recommendations that were made during our strategy calls.
- You’ll have the peace of mind knowing that you have me in your corner for any updates, improvements, or any issues you may have.
Our Offerings
Maintenance Plans
Sprout Plan
For those needing the basic services to support their business.
This plan includes the essential services to maintain your website and grow your business.
Cloud hosting
Weekly plugin, theme, and WordPress updates
Daily security checks
Daily backups
Monthly analytics reports
Email support
1 hour per month of website and marketing support
Yearly strategy call with recommendations
Discounted hourly rate
$79 / Month
Grow Plan
For those who want premium ongoing support to grow their business.
This plan includes all the services in our Sprout Maintenance Plan plus additional time and services to help your business thrive!
Cloud hosting
Weekly plugin, theme, and WordPress updates
Daily security checks
Daily backups
Monthly analytics reports
Email and phone support
2 hours per month of website and marketing support
Quarterly website audit and recommendations with option strategy call
Discounted hourly rate
10% off other monthly services
$149 / month
Extras
Monthly addons
Email Newsletter
With this service, we partner with you to create a monthly newsletter that strategically and systematically connects with and markets to your audience.
SEO Optimized Blog + Email
This service offers a monthly blog post strategically written and optimized to bring new traffic to your site. We then take that blog post and share it via email with your audience.
What if…
Frequently Asked Questions
Do you offer maintenance only (hosting not included) plans?
Yes! If you would just like maintenance, I offer a maintenance only option for $59/month.
Are there any set up or cancellation fees?
Nope! There are no setup costs and should you ever need to leave the plan, there are no cancellation fees. And the door is always open should you ever leave and decide to come back to the plan.
What happens if I pass on your plan?
If you decide to decline our maintenance plan, there’s a lot that can go wrong. Here are the top reasons I recommend you make sure your website is maintained:
- The site will not be optimized which leads to poor performance, slow loading times and a gradual loss of Google SEO rankings.
- The site’s tools, plugins, themes and WordPress itself will quickly go out of date which is the #1 leading cause of website hacks. It’s incredibly important to keep ALL your website tools and plugins up-to-date.
- You’ll have no backups or restore points so if the site get hacked or breached, you could lose all your content, pages and Google ranking.
You won’t get a monthly report overviewing your site traffic, page views, etc. - Most importantly, you won’t have me as your trusted webmaster to assist you with quick updates, tweaks, website issues, etc. Often you’ll have to try getting a hold of your hosting company for any assistance.
Does my monthly update time roll over?
Negative on this one. The retainer of hourly updates is just covered for that month.
What if my site gets hacked while on the plan?
If your site should get compromised while you’re on the plan – we’ll take care of cleaning the site and getting everything squared away with Google at no extra cost to you.
What if I have updates that require more than my included time?
We’ll always try to get your updates done within 1 hour to save you some extra cost but if you have a decent amount of updates that will require more hours, we’ll give you an estimate of time and do that at a discounted hourly rate.
What if I pass on the plan and my site gets hacked?
We can take care of getting the site cleaned for an initial cleanup fee of $250 then we can immediately get your site on our monthly plan to make sure it remains clean and protected form hacks.
How fast do you get to the monthly updates?
We’re pretty darn quick around these parts. We try to get to updates within 24-48hrs. As a monthly client, you always get top priority compared to clients who aren’t on the plan.
Can I join your plan if you didn't build my site?
At this time, we are not accepting sites that we did not build. This is due to the vast array of software that other web designers and developers use that we may not be familiar with. When you are ready for a redesign, we will be thrilled to help you though!
Ready for something different?
Let's turn visitors into customers
If you're tired of feeling embarrassed by your current website, frustrated by trying to do it yourself, and stressed about what to do next, let's talk. I can help move the needle in your business and turn visitors into customers through a custom, strategic website and traffic driving marketing strategies.
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