Website Maintenance, Support, and Ongoing Search Engine Optimization

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Gold Maintenance Package

Maintenance

  1. Backing up our entire hosting content files
  2. Ensuring the WordPress Content Management System (CMS) and all plugins are upgraded to the latest versions to assure security and functionality (Upgrades are normally done within days of new releases. This is very important to prevent unauthorized access.)
  3. Backing up all WordPress files and the database (daily)
  4. Verifying our disk and bandwidth limits meet our needs
  5. Adding SALT codes (secret keys) to our WP-config file and moving it to the root directory
  6. Verifying our domain name(s) expiry dates and managing renewals
  7. Verifying and updating domain Whois information
  8. Scanning the files with the exploit scanner
  9. Installing and configuring the Bullet Proof Security plugin
  10. Ensuring file and folder permissions are optimal
  11. Checking for unauthorized access
  12. Testing any forms
  13. Changing admin, cPanel and database passwords to prevent unauthorized access
  14. Regular monitoring (every 6 hours) to assure website accessibility
  15. Providing you with a list of the credentials (passwords) you need to manage your website

Search Engine Optimisation

  1. Recommending keywords and providing search engine ranking reports for those keywords
  2. Updating the Google sitemap whenever we add new content
  3. Reporting to you our Google Page Rank:
  4. Confirming with Google and Bing Webmaster Tools that there are no errors in our sitemaps
  5. Reporting to you how many indexed URLs we have with Google:
  6. Sending you our Google Analytics visitor statistics reports (monthly)
  7. Testing all links, repairing broken links and redirects
  8. Submitting the website to Google, Bing and Yahoo Webmaster Tools
  9. Measuring home page load speed
  10. Optimizing images to improve load speed
  11. Ensuring all images have SEO keywords in the ALT tags
  12. Running the Functional Accessibility Evaluator and correcting errors
  13. Running the Meta Tag Analyser and correcting errors
  14. Installing and configuring the WordPress ‘All in One SEO’ plugin
  15. Updating the Home Page title, description, H1 tag and keywords to improve our SEO
  16. Ensuring the home page has only one h1 tag and it contains our keywords
  17. Validating HTML and CSS
  18. Adding social media bookmarking icons and links
  19. Adding LinkedIn, Facebook and Twitter links to the sidebar where applicable
  20. Checking our Google Webmaster Tools Geographic Target
  21. Checking our 404 page
  22. Installing the WordPress Google sitemap feed plugin
  23. Registering us with Google Places (if applicable) or maintaining the listing with our keywords.
  24. Listing our website with DMOZ.org. This directory will provide us with a valuable backlink.
  25. Installing a favicon
  26. Adding a Wordle image if and where appropriate
  27. Adding or maintaining a map on the contact page
  28. Checking to see how many linkbacks we have

Editing Content (upon request)

  1. Making changes to the site upon request: adding, removing, and editing content including images (not including wholesale or design changes)
  2. Providing advice where needed on any Internet marketing or business technology topic

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Silver Maintenance Package

Maintenance

  1. Backing up our entire hosting content files
  2. Ensuring the WordPress Content Management System (CMS) and all plugins are upgraded to the latest versions to assure security and functionality (Upgrades are normally done within days of new releases. This is very important to prevent unauthorized access.)
  3. Backing up all WordPress program files
  4. Backing up the WordPress database daily
  5. Verifying our disk and bandwidth limits meet our needs
  6. Verifying our domain name(s) expiry dates and managing renewals
  7. Verifying and updating domain Whois information
  8. Testing any forms
  9. Changing admin, cPanel and database passwords to prevent unauthorized access
  10. Regular monitoring (every 6 hours) to assure website accessibility

Search Engine Optimisation

  1. Updating the Google sitemap whenever we add new content
  2. Checking for and repairing errors in our robots file
  3. Reporting to you our Google Page Rank
  4. Confirming with Google Webmaster Tools that there are no errors in our sitemap
  5. Reporting how many indexed URLs we have with Google
  6. Sending to you our Google Analytics visitor statistics reports (monthly)
  7. Testing all links, repairing broken links and redirects
  8. Submitting the website to Google Webmaster Tools
  9. Optimizing images to improve load speed
  10. Ensuring all images have SEO keywords in the ALT tags
  11. Installing and configuring the WordPress ‘All in One SEO’ plugin
  12. Updating the Home Page title, description, H1 tag and keywords to improve our SEO
  13. Ensuring the home page has only one h1 tag and it contains our keywords
  14. Validating HTML and CSS
  15. Checking our Google Webmaster Tools Geographic Target
  16. Checking our 404 page
  17. Adding or maintaining a map on the contact page

Editing (upon request)

  1. Making changes to the site upon request: adding, removing, and editing content including images (not including wholesale or design changes)
  2. Providing advice where needed on any Internet marketing or business technology topic