Maintain Website

27 May

Owning a website or blog has it’s responsibilities. You can’t just upload it and forget it. Regular website maintenance is a must if you want your site to be successful.

Website Updates

Think about it, if you visit a website that is not updated regularly will you continue to visit it? Why should your own website or blog be like that then?

Website Content

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Regular Website Maintenance Tasks

SSL Security
Backing Up Your Website
Monitor Website Outages
Check Domain Registration Information
Analyze Your Stats

Why is Website Maintenance Important?

With regular website maintenance your site will run smoothly. No disgruntled visitors because something on the site didn’t work or a link you provided is broken.

Regular visitors are looking for what is new, so provide them with new and exciting information, products or features.

Website are subject to being hacked. Using a proper website maintenance program you can try and avoid being hacked by keeping everything up to date.

There are all kinds of things that need to be done when maintaining a website. Whether you decide to do these yourself or hire out the work, it still needs to be done.

Feature Addition.

If at the time you created the website there was something that got left out because of budget constraints, maybe the budget can afford it now?

Take a look at your website/blog every once in a while and see if there is some kind of improvement that can be made. Something that you didn’t think of previously.

Maybe you have some feed back from visitors that needs to be implemented?

Fix a usability issue that has been mentioned.
Time to add a blog if you have a regular website and do not have one already?
Did you join a social networking site or two? Add the appropriate button(s) and links to your social profiles.
Add a frequently asked question section to cut down on emails and phone calls aske these regular questions.

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