Cambridge Website Maintenance Support – Why do companies need to maintain their WordPress Websites?
Companies need to maintain their WordPress websites for several reasons, including:
- Security: WordPress websites are vulnerable to cyber-attacks and hacking attempts. Therefore, regular maintenance is essential to keep the website secure and prevent any data breaches or website downtime.
- Performance: As your website grows and attracts more traffic, it may become slow and unresponsive, leading to a poor user experience. Regular maintenance helps to optimize the website’s performance, including load speed, uptime, and user engagement.
- Functionality: Over time, some features of your WordPress website may become outdated, or new features may need to be added to keep up with changing market trends. Regular maintenance ensures that your website’s functionality remains up-to-date and meets the needs of your users.
- SEO: Search engines favor websites that are updated regularly and have fresh, relevant content. Regular maintenance ensures that your website’s content is updated, and its SEO ranking is optimized.
- Compatibility: As new versions of WordPress and its plugins are released, some of the older versions may become incompatible, leading to errors or website crashes. Regular maintenance ensures that all the website’s components remain compatible and functioning correctly.
In summary, maintaining a WordPress website is essential to keep it secure, improve its performance, add new functionalities, optimize SEO, and ensure compatibility with the latest software updates.
The objective is to test/monitor the site to ensure it’s live and running correctly. Within this web support, WordPress security, maintenance package we:
- Run automated daily checks to ensure your site is online, running correctly and the contact forms are actually sending emails to the correct recipient
- Monitor security plugins to prevent viruses and malware issues
- Monitor major updates for WordPress
- Monitor WordPress platform versions and third-party plugins and where appropriate update them (i.e. PayPal, Sage Pay and SSL Certificates)
- Manual visit to your site and submission of your contact forms
Contact us for all your Website Support, WordPress Maintenace, Web Security and Hosting requirements. We can be in Cambridge within the hour.
If you require more help on an ongoing basis we offer a more involved package called WebWorks. Within this package, you will receive Website Monitoring and a range of additional services. Web Support, this package requires us to be more involved and we are on hand to help with your website if you require us to be.
- Priority service to your dedicated support account manager
- Priority work over that of non-WebWorks support clients
- Advanced testing and monitoring
- Creation of new pages, updates, content updates and creation of banners, graphics, etc.
- Assistance with web backup, retrieval and restore
- Visitor statistics
Ongoing monthly SEO service once live.
- Agency analytics software – Full SEO review and report to include;
- Keyword rank tracker and organic Google Analytics reporting
- Goal conversions
- Backlink monitor
- Site auditor
- Competitor analysis
- Crawl errors
- Social media tracking / MailChimp tracking
- Work to correct and improve findings from the above reports
- Google penalty assessment and recovery
We purchase, configure and manage your website address/domain names then provide a secure reliable platform to host your site and emails. In partnership with Catalyst2, Popcorn provides a professional, reliable web hosting solution – we lease servers in the Catalyst2 Data Centre to host our client’s sites and it is Catalyst2’s responsibility to ensure the servers meet their promise of 99.999% uptime. The standard Popcorn hosting package provides you with your own accessible space on Popcorn’s virtual dedicated server along with everything you need to run and maintain your site for years to come. That includes high level web facilities such as 1GB of web space, a 50GB monthly transfer limit and 10 mailboxes as well as many advanced features for task processing.