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A website should not just draw attention. The role of a website is to attract and engage the user, as well as communicate your brand and raise awareness about a product or service.
Mr. Silverspoons is a top website maintenance services company, helping businesses across the globe improve the performance and security of their websites. Whether you’re looking for a monthly, hourly, or after-hours website maintenance plan, Mr. Silverspoons provides the experience and expertise your company demands.
Website maintenance plans starting at 39.00 a month.
Mobile Websites and Responsive Web Design
Price estimates and quotations are subject to change.
Your customers will not give you a second chance to make a first impression
In a digital world, first impressions are vital and an outstanding web design is the key to success. Users enjoy visiting sites that are aesthetically appealing and easy to navigate. Let Mr. Silverspoons help your site make an outstanding first impression with speed and accessibility.
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SMALL BUSINESS
No hidden fees.
🔒Free SSL certificate
Up to 10 designed pages.
2 contact forms.
Email setup: 10
Logo integration
Photo gallery integration (up to 20 photos)
Responsive Design Included.
6 months free maintenance
EXECUTIVE
No hidden Fees.
🔒Free SSL certificate
Custom design
up to 20 custom designed pages
Unlimited publishing
editing and modifying content client side
Multiple contact forms
email setup: 20
Logo integration
Cross browser testing
Full customer support
6 month FREE maintenance
Admin panel
Responsive Design included
ENTERPRISE
No hidden Fees
🔒Free SSL certificate
Custom design
up to 100 custom designed pages
Unlimited publishing
Editing and modifying content client side
Multiple contact forms
Email setup: 100
Logo integration
Cross browser testing
Full customer support
6 month FREE maintenance
Admin panel
Responsive Design included
Website Maintenance
There is a laundry list of tasks that should be done to keep your website running smoothly. The most time-sensitive of these are website security updates and patches. Without these, your website has the potential to be an actual danger to those who click on it.
Why Is It Important to Do Website Maintenance?
Your website is a very important element of your business. If it is up-to-date and running smoothly, it can be a valuable support and asset. If it is not in a good state, it can cost you dearly. Once you are behind on your maintenance needs, it can be quite the process to bring the website back up to speed. Sometimes, if your maintenance has been ignored for too long, it is easier just to scrap everything and rebuild from the scratch. Do yourself and your business a favor by staying on top of your website. This will repay you with simple ease of mind. Many new businesses already have a lot on their plates without worrying about constantly checking in on their website. It’s tempting to buy a domain name, throw up something temporary, and just worry about it later. There are many reasons why this is not a good idea. Maintaining a current, healthy, and active website is important for a number of reasons. Security is the single most important reason to keep website maintenance on your radar, particularly if your website is storing any form of customer information. If you are using an open source platform you must ensure that you are installing regular software updates and security patches. It can be easy and attractive for hackers to find and target websites that have sat dormant for too long.
Software Updates
Software updates come out on average of every 2 months.Typically to fix bugs and a variety of security issues. Updates also add new features and functionality that can improve the overall design and performance of your site. The main components that need to be updated regularly are the core, plugins, and other software that powers your site so that everything continues to run smoothly.
Plugin Management
Plugins are independent pieces of software designed by various developers outside of WordPress. When WordPress releases updates to it’s core software, it’s the developer’s responsibility to keep their plugins up-to-date. This is why before even choosing to install a plugin, it’s important to research the plugin, read reviews and check the last updates performed. Once installed, it’s important to continue updating the plugin as developer’s make updates for compatibility with WordPress.
Software Conflicts
Although it is possible to perform the updates yourself, doing it properly is quite time consuming and risky. It’s important to have updates performed regularly by a professional developer who knows what they’re doing and can monitor and tackle any issues that may arise from the update. Software updates usually go smoothly, but occasionally they conflict with each other and can trigger malfunctions that can cause a poor experience for your visitors, or worse yet bring your site down entirely. (oh no!)
Think Your Site isn’t a Target for Hackers?
“Oh I’m just a small guy, nobody has a reason to attack my website” This is one a very common misconception about website security and the need for maintenance. Too often, website owners put maintenance on the back-burner because they have a small website or don’t think anyone would have reason to steal information from their site. But, if updates are ignored, you are a prime target for malicious attacks. For hackers, it’s not about stealing information, but hijacking your site to use its server as a hosting environment to send spam emails or attack other servers. Hackers often create bots to search for vulnerable sites. Once an access point is detected, the hacker’s make their way in and take control of the server. The server is then used to send out spam to massive email lists. This wil damage your site’s reputation with search engines and trigger them to block your IP address, rendering your site virtually non-existent in search results. hacks can remain dormant for a long time, while the hacker infects other websites and builds an army of exploited servers, referred to as “botnets.” Hackers use infected servers to perform a Distributed Denial of Service (DDoS) attack on other networks. Botnets send out a swarm of spambots, to infect other sites, setup phishing, and/or facilitate DDoS attacks. This type of attack aims to seize control of multiple services, which is easily accomplished with a botnet.
Common Website Maintenance Tasks:
These are some of the more important maintenance tasks that need to be performed on your site.
WordPress Core Updates
WordPress itself is a fast-moving platform, and new features are added and regularly improved. If the WordPress Core is not up to date, your website gradually becomes less secure and stable, and will not be performing at the level it should be. Not only can this cause a poor experience for your visitors, it can have a negative impact on search engine rankings.
Theme Updates:
Themes are the framework that make your site look and act the way it does. Like the WordPress Core, Themes are frequently improved and updated for security and performance. Using an out of date theme limits the function, security, and form of your web presence.
Plugin Updates:
Plugins are the tools that can be added to your WordPress site to add features and increase its functionality. There are many different plugins available to help you do everything from creating forms to adding visual effects. Plugins are created by different authors and regularly updated. If the author updates your plugins, but they are not installed on your website, you could be missing out on enhanced features or causing security issues and malfunctions on your website.
Off-site Backups:
Website platforms are not invincible. In the event that your website is hacked or goes down for some reason, having a backup off-site (on a remote server) can save you from the devastating effects of having to start from scratch. Offsite backups of your website should often be done, especially as you post more and more fresh content.
Security Monitoring & Protection:
Security is not something taken lightly by WordPress, however, even as the platform is strengthened; malicious individuals will explore new ways to overcome them. One thing most website owners don’t know is that Google and other search engines will actually blacklist a malware infected website, leaving it virtually invisible search traffic. Why? Because a hacked website is a security risk to their users, and to other websites. It allows for the spread and escalation of malware attacks on other websites, and even attacks against national targets and infrastructure. Ensuring that your security is up to date and at its best is certainly something that should be taken seriously. Understanding the vulnerabilities and taking the necessary precautions is vital to the protection of your website and possibly the reputation of your brand.
Broken link Inspection & Repair:
When people on a website come across issues such as dead links, it can it can be a big turn-of. Dead links send a message to your visitors that you do not care enough to take care of your site, and that you likely don’t take care of other business matters, including your customers. Scanning and resolving broken links regularly helps to ensure that your visitors can easily navigate your site, and won’t get frustrated and run away to your competitors. Dead links can also hurt you with search rankings. When search engines run across multiple broken links on your site, it tells them that your site has stale, low-quality content, and therefore not the best place to send to their users for good information.
Removing Unused Plugins:
Though it may seem harmless, having inactive or unused software on your site should be avoided. Maybe at one point you needed that calendar plugin but now use a different one, leaving that old one installed can cause conflicts and impede your site’s speed and functionality. Going through your plugins and uninstalling the ones that aren’t necessary is a wise maintenance move to lower the risk of a website crash or malfunction.
Removing Spammy Comments:
A blog on your WordPress site can be an exceptional method of generating traffic and building your brand image. Comments on your blogs can also be a great value to provide additional information and generate discussion on topics important to your visitors. Unfortunately, like email, comment postings can be used as a vehicle for spamming. If the comments are visible to other visitors, your reputation can quickly go south. Spending the time to clear out those spammy comments will keep your visitors happy and engaged.
Conclusion
Those are just some of many maintenance tasks that are important on any site. (Not just WordPress). We offer site maintenance plans to our clients because we want them to get the most from the sites we build for them, and we want to be able to show off our websites to future clients. A well-maintained website makes us look good, and our clients look good too. Learn more about our Website maintenance plans.
Mr. Silverspoons will get your business noticed in the digital world by using design ingenuity for creating brand personality with a long-lasting impact. We provide various customization and designs sets and focus on creating a website to fit your brand while engaging your visitors. Our team presents, revises and collaborates with you until we finalize the perfect design for your needs.
We believe that a close collaboration is the foundation for an outstanding result. Starting with content audits when we assess your needs and requirements to competitive analysis outlining opportunities, we collaborate at each step of the process.
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