A website that receives attention, gets attention. That has always been our philosophy. WordPress sites need maintenance that is a fact. But what if you don’t have a WordPress site? Should you still be doing maintenance or having someone do maintenance? The answer is yes. But the frequency and types of maintenance activities will change.
What is Website Maintenance?
Short answer. Anything you need to do to keep your website up-to-date. Here is a more detailed look at website maintenance.
Things we do as maintenance can involve:
- Software updates
- Security checks
- SEO checks and updates
- Content updates
- Adding features
- Performance – like speed and mobile
- DNS or domain record updates
Based on what you used to build your website you could need help with all of these or maybe one or two.
CMS Sites, Frameworks or Platforms All Need Maintenance.
At Cybervise, the majority of our clients use the WordPress platform. But we can do maintenance on many platforms. Here are some examples of other platforms potential clients brought us to look at.
As far as hosting, software updates and security, your Wix account handles most of that for you. Maintenance would focus around the content and keeping it updated. We actually have a Website Rescue that started out as a Wix Maintenance request. If you wanted help with your Wix site, it would be to help you get content posted faster. SEO services could help a Wix site, but you would are limited to content strategy. A webmaster would not be able to do technical improvements on a website.
Maintenance requests for Shopify primarily involve getting new content or product posted on the site. One of the major requests we get is for help with styling. A webmaster does have the ability to add custom style code to a Shopify site. There are a few routine checks to perform on a monthly basis. SEO Services can also benefit a Shopify site. Having a website maintenance plan would we worthwhile with a Shopify site.
Webflow sites we have reviewed were hosted at Webflow.com. If this is true, all of the security, backups and software updates are part of your account at Webflow. Maintenance requests were to help post new pages and update current content. SEO services were also included in these requests and we do have more access to optimize code. A maintenance plan would work well for a Webflow site. Especially if you make frequent changes.
Owners choose React because of its ability to connect website and mobile apps. From what we have seen, sites built on this platform are very custom. Lots of moving parts, lots of software updates. The React framework is maintenance intensive. You do not want to wait on maintenance for this site. I would make sure you have someone looking at it monthly at a minimum. We have requests for maintenance on React because of pricing. If you research online, maintenance plans for React sites are pricey. To keep costs down, the best thing would be to work with the person who built it and is most familiar with the code. React site owners will want to be on a maintenance plan.
No Matter What You Used to Build Your Website. Everybody Needs Help With These Things.
No matter what you used to build your website, you need your website to have the following things. If you can’t do this in-house or on your own, get help to maximize your site’s performance.
- Regular Content Review and Fresh Information – Give people something to come back for. Have a plan to keep your site fresh.
- Quality Content – Everybody needs the content on your website to be the best. If you don’t have those skills, this is a good place to get help. And not just something downloaded from an AI.
- Strategy to use your site – Website strategy is changing. There are once in a generation changes happening right now. Be clear on what you need your site to do.
- SEO Research and Strategy – SEO Strategy is changing fast. You have a business to run and it may be tough to keep up. Get some help from people who spend all day watching this.
- Plan to Promote your site – How are people going to find your site? If you relied on search traffic before, you may not be able to count on as much in the future. Create a plan.
For more information on Website Maintenance, check our our resource guide. Like to ask more questions? Sign-up for our free website consultation.
