How to do maintenance of website?
Ajay Kumar
Director at MVM Infotech, Bangkok | e-Business Consultant | Web, App, eCommerce & Travel Tech Expert | SEO & Digital Marketing | 200+ Clients Served
Owning a website or blog has it’s responsibilities. You can’t simply upload it and forget it. Regular website maintenance is a must if you would like your site to be successful.
Why is website Maintenance Important?
With regular website maintenance your site can run smoothly. No disgruntled visitors because something on the website didn’t work or a link you provided is broken.
Regular visitors are looking for what’s new, so give them with new and exciting information, product or features.
Website are subject to being hacked. using a correct website maintenance program you can try to avoid being hacked by keeping everything up to date in IT companies in Bangkok.
Regular website Maintenance Tasks
There are some regular website maintenance tasks you must perform on a scheduled basis. scheduling at least monthly would be the timeline to begin with.
Backing Up Your website
Backing up your website are some things you should do all the time, especially if you’re the type that uses the online interface of your store or blog to make changes. Things happen. even though the web hosting company says they backup the sites on their servers, their last backup could have been before your last edit. If the server crashes for some reason or your website gets hacked, your edits will be gone if the web hosting company restores what they had backed up. Image loosing a full day’s work, simply because you didn’t take a few minutes to backup the site.
Monitor website Outages
If your website goes down, you want to be the first to know and not receive an email from someone else they can not access your website.
SiteUp is a small program that runs on your computer within the background checking your website on daily basis. it’ll notify you when the site is down with a popup. clearly though, your computer must be on for it work by web agency Bangkok.
Check Domain Registration information
Look up in the WHOIS records what data is recorded for your domain name. ensure it’s correct. generally when you initially sign in for your domain you would have used an email address that’s no longer valid. This must be updated as when there’s a problem with your domain or an expiry notice is sent out you won’t get the emails. they’re sent to the email address on record.
Test website Speed
Testing the download speed of your website frequently is very important. especially if you have added a new feature. internet surfer have a very short attention span. If your website is slow to load, they’re not going to wait. you need to do everything you can to improve the download speed of your {site|website|web website} or blog so visitors stay to read your content and hopefully provide you with organic incoming links by spreading the word for you what a wonderful site you have.
Link Check
Links become broken over time. With changes inside the site and if you referenced someone in one of your articles or elsewhere inside the site links could have modified or are broken.
The task to find broken links isn’t too hard. simply use a link checker to check your external links and internal links at least once a month.
Software Updates
Third party software, like your ecommerce software, WordPress and Joomla for example, are always updating their software. you need to keep on top these updates and install them as soon as they are available. The updates won’t just be new features, they’re going to include security updates too.
Analyze Your Stats
Analyze not just your sales stats but your website stats too.
Traffic Stats
Look at your web server stats to see your website traffic. If your web hosting account doesn’t have website stats then get one installed. something like Aw stats that provides:
– Pages entered on and left on
– Time spent on the site
– Bounce rate
– Referring sites
– Countries your visitors are from
– Keywords/phrase that were used to find you
Google Analytics can provide some of this information. it should not be as complete as a website stats program that is run from your actual server.
One thing website stats program installed on your server can do that Google Analytics doesn’t is show you who is linking directly to your images on your site. e.g. your images, PDFs, reports, etc.. These people are stealing your content and your bandwidth if they do not have your permission to do so. With this info you can stop the hotlink in web company Thailand.
Search Engine Results
Are you showing up on the first page for the keywords/phrase you would like to? If you have given it some time, e.g. a few months, to get onto the first page of the search results naturally then maybe it’s time to look at your content and revise it.
Owning a website or blog has it’s responsibilities. You can’t just upload it and forget it. Regular website maintenance is a must if you want your site to be successful.