WordPress Website maintenance
Here at The Business Detective we thought it would be good to provide you with an overview of the WordPress Website maintenance top 5 tasks that are free to complete but make a huge difference when it comes to SEO and other important metrics.
For those that need support then please visit our Website page where we offer a range of packages in support of this type of maintenance.
WordPress updates
Make sure you regularly check your website themes and app plug ins, patches and updates are regularly released and these should always be updated. They can be easily found on the control panel of your WordPress website under ‘Appearance’ and ‘Plugins’.
Spam Comments
If your WordPress Website has comments enabled within it, either from a review perspective or on your blog then we would highly recommend ensuring that you pre authorise any possible comments, this will help to remove spam. Once a month you can then review and delete those unwanted messages.
Check Performance
If you work with us or another WordPress Website support business then we always ensure that we check your websites current performance. This looks at your page responsiveness, a key element from an SEO search ranking perspective. We will also fix broken pages and any returning 404 errors.
Test Your contact forms
Make sure that you check your contact forms or booking forms on a monthly basis. These forms can be temperamental and sometimes return results to junk mail or spam.
Check for Broken Links
Check your website for broken links. Every page should have internal and external links which helps Google to read your website and navigate it when ‘crawling’ through it. Test your links to make sure they work and websites have not changed there pages or there own index.
This list is not exhaustive, but gives five things to consider, they are all free to complete and if you get into a habit of checking then your website and ultimately your business will benefit in the short, medium and long term.
