subject: Website Maintenance - The Life-blood Of Your Website [print this page] These days it's really easy to get a websiteThese days it's really easy to get a website. With basic options like site templates and cheap domain names and hosting, it's no surprise that more and more websites are popping up online. A basic setup might have gotten easier, but gaining traffic hasn't. Getting and maintaining traffic to your site requires regular site updates and occasional design upgrades, something that a lot of people either do not know how to do, do not want to do, or simply don't have the time. Website maintenance is necessary if you don't want your site to be forgotten about.
Site maintenance covers everything from adding new pages and content to complete design update and code improvements. Without regular updates, visitors will quickly stop coming back, and your traffic will grand to a halt. This can be easily avoided if your site is built into a CMS, or a content management system. A CMS is your easy web content management solution, allowing you to make updates to copy, add pages, images, and videos quickly and easily, without having to learn any programming. Everything is done in a simple and easy to learn user interface, and can be done from any computer with an internet connection.
Don't be fooled, though; you will be spending a good amount of time on your site in order for it to see success. It takes time to get listed in the big search engines and for people to start talking about you, so don't be discouraged if you don't start seeing traffic right away. It takes time, and that time is something that you don't want to lose, so it's highly recommended that you have some kind of website backup system setup, either on your own or through a dedicated backup service. Just because your site is online doesn't mean it's safe - it's still stored on a physical server, and that server could fry and your would be forever lost, along with all the time and money you invested into it.
Maintenance is the life-blood of your website. It will allow it to grow and to gain a presence in the highly competitive online world, so do yourself a favor and don't skimp on it. You'll regret it later on, if you do.
