SiteCare Website Maintenance

Your SiteCare subscription includes 20-120 minutes per month (depending on your chosen plan) that you can use for work performed by our design team. This covers content support requests such as creating a new page, content edits, blog posts, uploading photos, changing logos, installing plugins, SEO requests, design consultation, updating contact details, etc. Basically, any ad hoc work you are requesting our team of website designers to perform on your behalf.

A few simple notes about design time…

• Unlike other website developers, we calculate design time to the minute and do not round up to the nearest quarter, half, or full hour. Therefore, if your job takes 7 minutes, then 7 minutes will be deducted from your monthly allocation, giving you a precise approach to time assessment.
• Total time calculation includes the work requested and the email communication required to complete the job.
• Content Support minutes do not roll over to the next month. Unused minutes will be gone and reset for the new month.  Additional minutes cannot be ‘borrowed’ from the next month.
• If you require more than your allocated minutes of design time in any given month, additional time can be purchased as needed at our regular rate of $75 per hour.  Time and cost will be agreed upon and payment collected prior to work being undertaken.  We will never charge your payment card or proceed with any work without your prior consent.
• Your monthly SiteCare report will provide a detailed breakdown of the design time minutes used each month and we can also provide the information by email upon request.
• Technical support requests, bug fixes, server updates (DNS changes, etc.), and WordPress maintenance services do not count toward your Content Support minutes.
• You can upgrade and downgrade between the SiteCare plans to match your budget and needs.  We can take a look at your usage history to determine the most economical plan.  Any change to your SiteCare plan will take effect at the start of the next billing period.

Style Agent strives to ensure that our websites are made easier to use and more accessible for people with disabilities, with the strong belief that every person has the right to live with dignity, equality, comfort and independence. Our websites include the UserWay website accessibility menu that is powered by a dedicated accessibility server. The UserWay software allows us to improve compliance with the Web Content Accessibility Guidelines (WCAG 2.1).

All in One SEO for WordPress is the original WordPress SEO plugin started in 2007. Over 3 million smart website owners use AIOSEO to properly set up WordPress SEO, so their websites can rank higher in search engines.   Our SiteCare service includes the Pro (paid) version of AIOSEO which is packed full of features to help your website rank higher on Google search results.

Features include –

• Social Media Integration
• Local SEO
• Video SEO Sitemaps
• TruSEO Score Analysis
• Redirection Manager
• Search Statistics
• and so much more!

We do a basic installation and setup of the AIOSEO Pro plugin, then provide you with full access to the AIOSEO Pro features.  You can also hire our team to do basic SEO work as required.

Please note:  Style Agent is not an SEO company and does not promise search engine placement as a result of using our SiteCare service.  Although we don’t take a deep dive down the SEO rabbit hole, we do provide basic SEO services such as on-site SEO (title, description, keywords, etc.) and local SEO which can have a huge impact on Google search results, and may even eliminate the need to hire an expensive (and often unscrupulous) SEO or marketing company.

BunnyCDN is a reliable, powerful and lightning fast CDN (Content Delivery Network) designed to offer incredible performance by bringing your content closer to your users. Delivering content via CDN vastly improves website speed, performance, SEO, and lead conversion.

Complianz is an all-in-one privacy suite for WordPress and includes privacy policy, cookie banner, California Consumer Privacy Act (CCPA) notice, General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) and more. The Complianz license includes full installation and setup by our team, saving you the time and stress from developing your own policies.

We perform automatic scheduled daily website backups to an off-site cloud server and make sure that an up-to-date backup is always at-the-ready in case of an emergency. Engineered with the highest standards, this comprehensive backup solution includes a 90-day backup archive for your total peace of mind.

Performance drops are usually not noticed by the naked eye. Malware, errors, hardware issues – so many things can affect your website performance, so it’s important to be vigilant and proactive. Our daily performance check notifies us of any significant changes to your website performance so we can act quickly to resolve any problems and get your website back up to speed.

WordPress powers millions of websites worldwide, but due to its popularity, it attracts its fair share of malware, viruses, brute force login attempts and other security threats. Security is a priority as we protect your website with the latest technology to stay ahead of these malicious attacks.  Our system checks your website on a daily basis and informs us of any potential issues so we can react quickly to avert a bigger problem.

Refer & Earn $75

Refer a friend or colleague to Style Agent, and after their website is launched, you will receive a $75 Amazon Gift Card direct to your email inbox. The gift card can be redeemed towards millions of items on Amazon.com or certain affiliated websites. There is no limit to the amount of referrals you can make and the amount of Amazon gift cards we will send to you, so what are you waiting for!?

A Few Simple Rules

• Client must have an active SiteCare subscription at the time of referral.
• You can’t refer yourself – yes someone already tried!
• Amazon eGift Card cannot be substituted for any other payment.

Google Analytics is a free website analytics application that helps you to analyze the traffic on your real estate website. The platform gives you a complete picture related to your site performance and allows you to track visitor behavior, see the most visited pages, where your visitors are located, and ultimately measure the effectiveness of your website. Setup your Google Analytics account and Style Agent will connect it to your website so you can start tracking the data after your website is launched.

Enjoy automatic image optimization with the powerful Imagify plugin. With lighter images, your website will gain in speed, improve user experience, and increase your SEO potential. Imagify reduces the weight of your images to a preset compression level without sacrificing their quality.

Unresponsive or broken links are bad for SEO, can lead to poor user experience, lost revenue and a loss of trust by the visitor. Broken links are not only a pain for website visitors but a real drain on bandwidth and can slow down your website load times. Our powerful link monitoring software keeps tabs on your links, notifies us if any of them break, and helps us to fix them with ease.

The link monitor will check the links in all the posts and pages on your website, and give us an overview of:

• Response codes
• Link URLs
• Link text
• Which content the link belongs to

In addition to the initial scan, Link Monitor will run through all the links* on your monitored site once a day.  We will then notify you if any issues with links are discovered on your website and provide options on how to fix them.

*limited to 10K links per website.

In the unlikely event that your website is the victim of a malware attack, we will locate the offending files, clean the infection, and remove the malicious content at no additional charge to you.  The website will then be restored back to full health and closely monitored to prevent a reccurance of the same problem.

WordPress Core Updates
We manage the WordPress core release updates to make sure everything continues to run smoothly on your website. WordPress is constantly evolving so it’s important to keep WordPress software updated to the latest version for security, new features, speed, bug fixes and compatibility.

WordPress Plugin Updates
Our WordPress websites are loaded with free and premium plugins that are essential to the website’s performance and functionality. These plugins are frequently updated by the developers to stay current with the latest WordPress core version, so we manage those updates in your website.

WordPress Theme Updates
WordPress developers will periodically roll out a new version of a theme to fix bugs, increase performance, enhance security and stay current with the latest version of the WordPress core. For your peace of mind, we handle the delicate upgrade to the latest version of the theme.

Each month, you will be emailed a SiteCare report detailing everything we have done for your website during the previous billing period. The downloadable/printable report includes detailed information about your website, backups, security, analytics, performance grades, and custom work notes.

We install the premium Really Simple SSL Pro plugin to optimize your SSL security and keep your website fortified and safe.  Features include mixed content scanning, security cookies, advanced security headers (HSTS, X-XSS, etc.), server health check, and WordPress hardening. These features will tackle the known and lesser-known weaknesses when running a WordPress website. Hardening features are focused on minimizing risk by removing points of attack, mostly in disabling features that are not used or limiting access to those who use them.

We use smtp.com to ensure maximum reliability of website leads being sent to your email. Smtp.com is the most reliable and scalable email delivery platform in the industry and routes your email leads via SMTP API relay instead of the unreliable default WordPress php method.

We integrate the powerful reCAPTCHA software by Google into every lead form (Contact, Find Your Dream Home, etc.) on your website. reCAPTCHA uses an advanced risk analysis engine and adaptive CAPTCHAs to keep automated software from engaging in abusive activities on your website. It does this while letting your valid users pass through with ease. reCAPTCHA offers more than just spam protection. Every time reCAPTCHAs are solved, that human effort helps digitize text, annotate images, and build machine learning datasets. This in turn helps preserve books, improve maps, and solve hard AI problems.

The SiteCare subscription includes the installation and automatic renewal of a trusted SSL certificate from ZeroSSL. Adding SSL encryption (HTTPS) will secure your website, boost SEO potential, gain trust, and ensure the privacy of your customers. It also stops the Google Chrome browser from flagging your website as ‘Not Secure’!

Experience unlimited technical support from the team that built your website and know it inside out! We provide fast technical support by email (preferred), live chat, and phone. Our reliable ongoing support is one of the main reasons why so many of our existing clients refer others to Style Agent.

The website uptime monitor notifies us immediately if your website goes down, giving us the chance to fix the problem before it becomes serious. When your WordPress website is down, you’re losing visitors and possible revenue. The uptime monitor makes sure that this doesn’t happen to you.

Enjoy reliable website hosting on our dedicated Linux servers at HostGator’s US-based data center. We’ve used HostGator’s servers to host our real estate websites since 2008 for two good reasons – reliability and performance!  Our robust servers are powered by fast 8 Core / 16 Thread Intel Xeon-D processors with 30GB RAM, unmetered bandwidth, unlimited disk space and a 99.9% up-time guarantee.

SiteCare subscription includes access to 170 WordPress training videos, installed right in your WordPress dashboard!  Since 2008, the WordPress 101 tutorial videos have helped more than three million beginners learn the basics of the powerful WordPress platform. Every WP101 tutorial video is meticulously scripted and professionally produced by expert educators who are dedicated to helping you learn WordPress step-by-step so you can confidently manage your website.

WordPress experts recognize the WP Rocket premium cache plugin as the most powerful caching tool thanks to its wide range of optimization features. WP Rocket ensures that your website will load blazing fast, which is essential to improve SEO rankings and ultimately increase conversions.