Website and Email Maintenance and Care Plan Options and Prices
This list was last updated on April 9, 2022. Prices are in United States dollars (USD), do not include current sales tax, and are subject to change without notice.
I highly recommend buying a website maintenance and care plan, whether it's from me or somebody else. I like to compare it to car insurance. If you do not have it before you need it, you will regret it. If your website is hacked or plugins and themes malfunction because they were not updated, your online business will be affected.
Protect your investment. Once your website goes live, it's important to protect it from potential hacks, breaches, and other threats that can bring your site down and have it blacklisted from search engines, removing it from all search results and destroying its rankings.
Your website is like a new car; it looks and runs very well right now, but over time, it can deteriorate if it's not properly maintained. A monthly care plan can relieve your stress while you focus on your business.
When you're on this plan, you can contact me at any reasonable time for help with updates, edits, additions, or any potential website issues. If you are skeptical or on a tight budget, you can buy a plan at any time in the future. However, a one-time maintenance service may cost a lot more, depending on the problem(s).
Included in all plans:
- Allotted time (usually 1–4 hours) of monthly support
- Priority support (precedence over one-time maintenance customers)
- Discounts on future work
- Quarterly or yearly reviews
Updates and Optimization
- WordPress plugin updates
- WordPress theme updates
- WordPress CMS software updates
- Updates of other website tools, if any
- Visual inspection after updating
- Site cleaned and optimized weekly
- Optimization of media files for faster loading
- Optimization of page load speed
Security, Monitoring, and Protection
- SSL certificate ("https")
- Firewall available if needed
- Anti-spam measures put in place
- Regular malware scanning and monitoring (via SiteGround Site Scanner and only on a SiteGround-hosted website)
- WordPress security plugin that works on all WordPress websites, not only SiteGround-hosted
- WordPress speed optimization plugin that works on all WordPress websites, not only SiteGround-hosted
Backups and Restorations
- Weekly backups of all files, databases, and settings
- Backups are securely off-site
- 4 weeks of backups
- Restorations at any time, such as before a hack, from any backup on file
Reports
- Weekly or monthly reports of your page views and site traffic data
- A detailed summary of all maintenance performed on your site
Option 1:
The Bare Minimum Website Maintenance and Care Plan
- Plugin and theme updates when they're available
- Monthly performance checks
- Monthly backups if needed
- Monthly reports
- Support via email
- Only 1 addition/removal of content if needed
Price: $100 monthly
Valuable Business Investment: $50 monthly (or $500 yearly)
Option 2:
The Basic Website Maintenance and Care Plan
- Plugin and theme updates when they're available
- Bi-weekly performance checks
- Bi-weekly backups
- Bi-weekly reports
- Support via email or scheduled phone call
- Up to 2 addition/removal of content if needed
Price: $200 monthly
Valuable Business Investment: $100 monthly (or $1,000 yearly)
Option 3:
The Entrepreneur Website Maintenance and Care Plan
- Plugin and theme updates when they're available
- Weekly performance checks
- Weekly backups if needed
- Weekly reports if wanted
- Priority support via email or scheduled phone call
- Up to 3 addition/removal of content if needed
Price: $300 monthly
Valuable Business Investment: $200 monthly (or $2,000 yearly)
One-Time Website Maintenance
Price: $200+
Valuable Business Investment: $100+
Your quoted price depends on the size of the website.
Website Redesign/Upgrade to Be Mobile-Friendly
A mobile-friendly website is also called "responsive design," which means that the design "responds" (or reacts) to different screen sizes.
Price: $300+
Valuable Business Investment: $200+
Your quoted price depends on the size of the website.
Complete Website Audit
Includes:
- website content audit
- spelling and grammar check
- broken links audit
- missing images audit
- on-site SEO audit
- off-site SEO audit
- website accessibility audit
Price: $300+
Valuable Business Investment: $200+
Your quoted price depends on the size of the website.
One-Time Email Maintenance
Includes:
- server errors
- bouncebacks (undelivered email notifications)
- domain blacklist check
- advice on email tracking with open/read receipts and link-click receipts
- spam prevention in contact forms via Google reCAPTCHA
Price: $100+
Valuable Business Investment: $50+
Your quoted price depends on the complexity of the task.
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