Why Website Maintenance is Critical for Your WordPress Site
If you think that WordPress website maintenance is not important and it doesn’t matter much, you couldn’t be more wrong!
You have built the website with a purpose and to serve your needs related to your business or blogging. If you want your site to sustain itself and enjoy a strong online presence, it is essential that you maintain your website on a regular basis, until you are running your business or blog.
WordPress websites require regular maintenance and should be updated regularly for security reasons and to allow new changes. Ideally speaking, your WordPress site should improve with time to find more of a connection with customers and readers.
What happens when you neglect your website?
Neglecting your website can lead to undesirable outcomes, and it can lead to an adverse impact on your business, your relationship with your customers and your online visibility.
- If you ignore those updates, the signs of neglect are visible on your website.
- Buggy plugins and unnecessary content can weigh down the site, and it can face page loading issues.
- Irrelevant and redundant information can hurt the SEO over time as well as make the user experience unpleasant.
Customers have no time or patience to wait for pages that take too long to upload. As a result, your search engine rankings are likely to drop over time. Thus, it is crucial to keep WordPress, template, and all plugins up-to-date, on a regular basis.
Crucial components of a WordPress site maintenance plan
Apart from focusing just on the website designing or building, one should also have a long-term plan for how they are going to maintain the website. The aim is not to have just a great looking site, but to also ensure that it stays fully functioning and up to date.
A WordPress website maintenance plan should cover the following:
- Get regular WordPress updates to make the website more functional
- Rework the website looking for updates and remove any outdated plugins
- Plugin cleanups patch up any security flaws and improve site performance
- General cleanup keeps the pages presentable and enhances the user experience
- Change the password from time to time
Advantages of regularly maintained website
A regularly maintained website enjoys high search engine rankings, stays up to date, and offers a great user experience. The primary benefits of keeping your WordPress website up to date include:
- Higher security from data thieves and hackers
- Updating WordPress Plugins and Themes means faster speed, higher security, and more efficient performance
- Better user experience leading to higher web traffic
- Many technical issues are resolved by keeping up-to-date
- Complete backup and reinstallation are advisable
- Regular website maintenance ensures improved search-engine rankings
Enjoy long-term savings and performance with regular updates and maintenance of your WordPress site. A regular plan for site maintenance may not be the simplest of tasks, but when planned and carried out regularly, it may not seem like a lot to handle. All you need to do is to know what to do and do it on a regular basis.
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We have had the great pleasure of working with Mike McLeland for a number of years now. The quality of our website is fabulous. The true test is of course, does it make the potential clients want to take the time to inquire about our services? It absolutely does this. He created it so that it is easy for that potential client to decide quickly and with ease that they want to know more about us and our services. This is rare because a lot of websites in our industry in particular are extremely hard to move around once you have arrived.Additionally, Mike has a rare quality as a Web Designer. He understands who he can send an email filled with technical terms to and who he shouldn’t. The owner of our company receives the technical emails and I get the total opposite. This makes it so much easier for us to work with him.Lastly, his level of care is, ” Off the Charts!” There I no other way to describe it.I hope a lot of other businesses use his services.
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Stellar! Mike and his team overhauled my website lickety split and are always prompt to respond when I need help maintaining the site to make new changes. I appreciate Mike’s personal style of no-nonsense, straight to business, conquer the mountain approach to a goal while at the same time he has a special way to let you know he personally cares about each and every project in a way no other business owner takes time to express.
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