Getting website maintenance done… With a plan
January 8th 2009 by admin

So you have a website and obviously you’d like to continue adding value to it to keep your SERPs and well focus on your users.

As I’ve said in a previous post, website maintenance is about creating new content and keeping content current and error free.

For myself I plan to do website maintenance weekly.

My process for maintaining a website.

  1. Make a list of things that need maintenance.
  2. Pick a day.
  3. Attach your list to that day on your calendar or in your diary as a checklist.
  4. Don’t assign a specific time ahead, i.e. don’t plan a time on Tuesday to do website maintenance.

Number 4 is crucial for a lot of people (not all).  If you specify a time for something and you accidentally have something else that’s more important or that took a bit longer than you expected then you’ll say to yourself: “Well I’m not going to do that now because it was for then, I’ll have to reschedule”.

And most people won’t reschedule straight away.

Making a list

  1. Use pen/pencil and paper.
  2. Use a service.

If you’re all about paper (I am to some degree) then number 1 is for you.  But if you like things online, Remember the Milk is a great service, I just saw that it now has gmail integration as well.  Just add the items that you need to maintain (getting to that in a second) to your to do list and there you go.  I use outlook and add to do items with an alarm on the day I need to get them done.

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