Wix is one of the most popular website platforms in the world, with more than 4.2 million users. No matter what size your business is, Next Wave Services is here to help you maintain your website each month. Let’s take a look at some of the things that we can do to help you maintain your website.
Keeping Your Website’s Blog Up To Date
Blogging is among the most important activities that you can do on your website each month. Did you know that companies that blog get 97% more links to their websites and that 77 million blog comments are generated worldwide each month? Blogging leads to better SEO, which means more SEO leads for a business. In fact, the typical business will close around 15% of its leads that come from SEO. If you choose to work with Next Wave Services for your website maintenance, we will help you:
Develop an SEO strategy each month for your website.
Meet with you regarding your content strategy.
Make sure that your blogs are SEO friendly.
Sometimes, you may find that updating old content on your blog will also be highly effective. Only 38% of websites actively update their blogs. The majority of webmasters that update old blog posts report that their efforts result in increased traffic and sales on their website.
The Importance of Maintaining a Fast Website on Mobile and Desktop
Website speed is everything. It impacts how long users stay on your website. Website speed, mostly mobile, also plays a small role in how your website performs on search engines. Not only is a fast mobile website necessary, but you also want to have a website that is easy to use on mobile devices. Here are some stats about how fast your website should be:
On average, only about 15% of websites maintained by businesses meet Google’s page speed guidelines.
Around 37% of people will leave a website if it takes longer than 3 to 5 seconds to load.
Around 75% of people say that mobile speed impacts their decision to buy something online while a speed lag of one second can result in a 7% drop in conversions
Here is how Next Wave Services can help you with your website speed and its usability:
Whenever we make a change on your website, we check to make sure that it looks good on desktop, mobile, and tablet devices.
We also test the responsiveness of your website on different screen resolutions.
We make sure that image compression is done correctly on any pages to keep the website speed fast.
Newsletter Blasts and Social Media
Some of our website maintenance plans include social media and newsletter blasts. This help draw attention to your website on social media and keep your current customers updated. Here are some of the benefits of taking advantage of this part of our service:
Email marketing, by and far, is one of the best sources of ROI in marketing. For every $1 spent on email marketing, converting customers will bring a business $42 worth of sales.
Over 80% of businesses depend upon email marketing as a means of retaining their current customers.
Over 50% of customers like to receive email promotions for their favorite companies and brands on a weekly or monthly basis.
Social media is also a good way to promote your website. People from millennials to baby boomers are active on social media, with Facebook being the most popular social media platform where people hear about products and services. Even Twitter is still a powerful marketing platform. In the third quarter of 2020, around 187 million monetizable Twitter users logged onto the social media platform every day.
Other Important Tasks For Making Sure Your Website Looks and Works Great
There are other website maintenance tasks that Next Wave Services can help you with. These include:
Making sure that links on your website are up to date: 88% of people will not purchase products or services from a website where they encounter a broken link.
Making sure that colors and images look good on your website: 85% of people report that color and imagery on a website will influence their decision to purchase goods or services.
Making sure that your website has “trust and authority” signals: If you take credit card payments for ecommerce, letting people know their delivery and shipping timelines will help bolster conversions. Other trust and authority signals include contact information so that your customers can easily reach you.
These little things will make sure that your website looks sharp, compelling people who are first-time visitors to purchases your products and services.
Keeping Your Wix Website Up To Date Throughout the Year
Next Wave Services will help you with all aspects of managing your website throughout the year. Our website maintenance services include updating banners as you need them on your website. If you promote events through your website, we can help you keep your calendar up to date. These services will save you time so that you can focus on running your business.
How Next Wave Services Can Help You With Your Wix Website Maintenance Needs
In 2019, according to Small Biz Trends, 28.5% of business owners didn’t have enough money to manage their website, while 22.39% reported that they didn't have enough time. Additionally, 14.25% of small business owners needed help identifying the best way to use their website. That is where Next Wave Services can help:
Our website maintenance services are available in different pricing tiers to meet your budget.
We offer everything from content creation to updating your website so that you don’t have to do it yourself.
We also will consult with you each month on the best ways that you can promote your website.
Next Wave is a Charlotte website design company. We have been doing websites since 1998. Our team's combined experience with websites touches all areas, SEO, Social Media, Graphics, layout, Mobile, and much more.
We are the website design experts.