Keeping your site current and fresh is important to your clients and your success. Keeping your site secure and backed-up is essential for you!  Code can become dated over time leaving your site open to crashing or being hacked.  It is essential that security updates, code updates and regular backups are completed to keep your site up and running.  Site maintenance includes the following important details:

• Hosting: This is the web server that holds your site and makes it available to your clients.  The host account includes data storage and transfer and email accounts for everyone in your organization. Hosting accounts must be renewed at regular intervals or you will lose your site.
  
  
• Domain Name: Domain names are also known as website addresses or URL's and they are essential. A good domain name makes it easy for your visitors to find you online and remember your address. It is important to keep your domain account paid up or you risk losing your domain name to someone else who may charge you a premium rate to sell it back to you.
  
  
• Regular Site Maintenance: The code and back end of your site become dated over time leaving your site vulnerable to poor performance and security breaches such as hackers. It is important to regularly review your site coding and keep your site updated and safe.
  
  
• Browser Compatibility: Your customers or clients will be using many different internet browsers to access your site.  These browsers include Internet Explorer, Safari, Firefox, Opera, and Google Chrome to name a few.  Coding does not render the same way in all internet browsers.  Your site must be regularly updated and tested in all standard browsers especially as new versions of these browsers are released.
  
  
• Search Engine Optimization (SEO): Increase your site rankings and web site traffic through the selection of the best keywords for your site.  Our SEO services include keyword research, recommendations to you on placing keywords in your content, a search-friendly site architecture, submitting sitemaps to the major search engines, and providing you with Google Analytic reports at intervals you select.
  
• Website Updates: Keeping the content of your website updated is essential to keeping your visitors coming back and your website ranking well on the search engines. A website with outdated or stale content will not evoke confidence in your services or product.
  
  
• Backups: There is no doubt about it – you NEED to backup your website on a regular basis! Backing up your site goes beyond just saving your page content or blog entries.  A good backup includes all of your core programming files that are on your web host server and also the data files which are located in your database.  Although many hosts claim to back up your site regularly, very few will actually make those backups available to you.  Forget to backup your site and you risk losing all your content.
  
  
• Statistics: Use analytic software such as Google Analytics to collect stats about your site.  Google Analytics  is the enterprise-class web analytic solution that gives you rich insights into your website traffic and marketing effectiveness. Powerful, flexible and easy-to-use features now let you see and analyze your traffic data in an entirely new way. 

Part of the development of your site will include discussions around how you will maintain your site. We will discuss to what level you would like our services after the launch of your site. You may choose to have us look after parts or all of the above at intervals you select: weekly, monthly, bimonthly, quarterly etc.