11 Easy Website Maintenance Tasks to do Monthly and Yearly
Ok so we all agree that our business websites need to be maintained (If you’re not sure why you can read my article all about it!), but are you unsure of what website maintenance includes?
I know it can feel overwhelming to tackle your website when an extra thing added to your to-do list is the last thing you need, but we can make it easy and painless, I promise.
Website maintenance benefits for your business
If you’re lacking the motivation to get started, read my article on all the benefits you will get from having a well-maintained website.
When is website maintenance needed?
To keep up with maintenance best practices, you should at least do monthly checkups and updates with some larger tasks once a year. Of course if you can sneak in more frequent updates and new content, do it! It’ll be great for your SEO.
How long does it take to maintain a website?
Most maintenance tasks can be done pretty quickly in under 30 minutes! You should dedicate an hour or 2 at least every year to review your content and make sure nothing is outdated.
Yearly Web Maintenance tasks
Audit your content - Review articles, sales pages and landing pages to update content to be more relevant now. Remember web pages are evergreen and can rank even years later!
Update the date on your Terms & Privacy Policies - Go through your legal pages and make sure all the information is up to date and still accurate.
Update your copyright notice - Change the date in your website footer
Clean up and delete old pages and content
Monthly Web Maintenance Tasks
Track your key analytics - Write down information relevant to the success of your business like acquisitions and conversion rates to know what is working.
Update events - Do you have new events coming up?
Update content - Did your opening hours change? I’ve been a victim of that one before!
Test your contact forms - Have you been missing important client enquiries?
Update your plug-ins (Wordpress) - They’re a security weakness.
Back up your content and database (Wordpress) - Just in case.
Check and fix broken links - You can use www.deadlinkchecker.com/ to find them easily.
