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Maintaining your website is crucial for ensuring it remains secure, functional, and effective in attracting and retaining customers. Below, I have listed the five headline tasks that you need to consider when considering website maintenance.
First and foremost it is essential to keep your site secure and protected against threats from hackers and to ensure you don’t suffer any data breaches. This involves the consistent updating of your site’s software, plugins and security features.
The other key focus area we look at is performance optimisation. Make sure you regularly check your site’s speed and functionality. This involves ensuring imagery is optimised, links are working and the deletion of unnecessary code. Doing this will lead to the quick identification of broken links, 404 errors or other technical issues.
To ensure you are leading the way from an SEO perspective, we recommend our customers regularly freshen up their sites with new copy, content and imagery. If you have blogs, metadata or product descriptions, it’s worth scheduling regular updates to improve visibility and relevance.
Next, I recommend you schedule regular backups (these can be automated) to prevent the risks associated with data loss. These backups must be stored securely and have the ability to be easily and quickly restored.
Finally, each of our customers have different requirements when it comes to compatibility. By being disciplined with checking and testing your sites on desktop and mobile, you will insure yourselves against potential drop-offs and missed sales.
At Websure, we are adept at handling all of these routine, and non routine tasks, allowing your business to thrive, whilst maintaining and enhancing its standing in its respective market.
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