Website Health Check

Hackers like to spread malware by infecting insecure websites and attacking their customers. A malware infection isn’t just an embarrassment. It costs money to fix, results in lost leads and revenue, but most importantly it can damage your reputation amongst your customers as well as search engines.

Web sites that run on a content management system like WordPress need regular updates. If you don’t update your website software, you will quickly become an easy target for malware and hackers. Sites that are updated frequently provide a safer environment for your existing customers or new leads seeing to do business with you.

Not all web hosts are equal, especially when it comes to the health of your site. Cheap shared hosting plans leave your site at risk to becoming infected because one of the thousands of other customers sharing your server left the door open to hackers. If your web hosting isn’t doing regular backups and malware scans, you should be looking for a better host.

It’s important for your website’s link structure to stay consistent and dependable. If customers looking for content finds “File Not Found” errors you could be losing business. Even worse, Google can take these sorts of errors as a sign that your website isn’t reliable. They may remove your pages from their index, or demote your site in their search rankings.

Did you know that most web searches happen from a mobile phone? Customers that find you from a mobile device need to have a fast and intuitive experience, or they’ll leave quickly. Google has also changed their algorithm to penalize sites that are slow and not mobile-friendly. Website speed and mobile issues could be losing customers.

Technical SEO refers is the act of improving the implementation, content, and code of your website to improve its search engine ranking. It includes things like making your page titles the appropriate length, adding descriptions, optimizing image alt tags, and more. Technical SEO is the low hanging fruit of search engine optimization, and we’ll help you grab it!

Few things are more embarrassing to a business than a website that goes down regularly. With every Website Health Check, we provide you with a free month of our uptime monitoring report that checks your site all day, every day to make sure it’s up and responding to customers.