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Do websites need maintenance? Why websites need constant maintenance?

By Abhinav Girdhar | Updated on March 12, 2021, 1:01 pm

Creating a website is not a one-time thing. After you are done making a website, you have to make sure that you invest time and money on regular site maintenance.

A website or any other piece of technology left without an update will only gather dust and rust, lose relevance, and fall far behind their competitors.

Reasons why it is important to maintain your website

1. Enhances security


Data security is of great importance and one of the main reasons for maintaining your website. In particular if your website is using a CMS, it is important that your website is updated with the latest software patches and security updates.
Missing out on these updates can put your website and all related data under potential risk of hacking.

2. Increases site traffic


Search engines like Google give preference to the sites that are updated frequently with quality content that is relevant. The higher your site ranks, more would be the traffic directed to your website.
When you update your site with fresh content, remove any broken links, get rid of any duplicate pages.

3. Improves user experience


When you have the latest data, offers, and content, the over all experience of the site visitor will be elevated.
A site that has visuals to match the latest trends, current content about relevant topics, and features that are engaging, will attract new visitors and increase the number of returning visitors.

4. Helps maintain an updated backup


Business websites often maintain a database of sensitive information and they can’t ever afford to lose it. Servers are not immune to disk crashes and other such issues. As a part of website maintenance, all this data can be backed up to make sure that in case of a server crashing all the sensitive information is safely backed up.

5. Increase site performance


By keeping your website updated and carrying on regular maintenance of your website, you would be ridding your website of multiple issues including broken links, duplicate content, junk pages and more.

This takes care of multiple issues, thus improving the overall speed of the website.

 

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