Thursday, March 18, 2010

Make sure you have good maintenance plan for your website

Generally every planning has a beginning phase where you launch your activity and a middle period in which you must focus on it and develop it and last one is conclusion. People often set up a website overwhelmingly but then they realize that they do not have the require skills or knowledge to maintain and develop it.

What are the main hurdles in this middle phase of a website and how can you overcome them? A website is not static thing like a document because you can make changes into it so it reflects new products or new developments in your enterprise. You can go for campaigns and at any time you can add contents into it.

The real problem for some companies and individuals is that after they have spent a good amount of money to have their own website they do not have any skilled personnel who can make changes or maintain the website further like keep adding text etc. A practical solution to this is to confirm that you have a good maintenance plan available in the agreement you made with your web designer so that changes can be easily implemented by your designer.


Another solution that makes you more flexible is to educate someone in your organization to be able to work with an HTML editor or related software because not everyone has skills to design a website from nothing, if any person is capable of working with normal word processing programs than he can learn how to modify text and upload files to the server.

If you just sit idle then you cannot anticipate your website to stay up to its promise because many web designers often do not have an idea of search engine optimization and website owners are left with a nice looking website without having a great traffic. You will find many tasks to make website popular such as back-link building, Article writing & posting and many other that normally do not comes under the responsibilities of the designer.


Here you need to check with your web designer and see if they are able to offer these tasks in less or can provide some support. If you do not find proper solution to it then few of these tasks may require being outsourced. These tasks can be search engine optimization and submissions and even link building which includes the activity of finding link partners can be contracted to companies which offers such services.

One of the skilled member of your staff can learn few of these tasks by just going over the online help or e-books and newsletters. You will find that this will take some time but it gives you great flexibility and ability to handle your task at your own time and in your budget.

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