Annual Website Maintenance Checklist
Posted on December 2nd, 2007 by JJS.

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Do you use an Annual Website Maintenance Checklist for your clients and your own sites?

Each year we spend a fair amount of time preferably prior to the end of December and review both our client sites as well as our own.

Over the years we have evolved the checklist from ten items to many more…

The checklist is designed to help website us and other website marketing managers review potentially costly issues and reduce any errors that might have cropped up over the year.

Maintaining a website properly can be difficult and time consuming and easy to put off until you “have more time”. We suggest that you make it a priority - it is that important to you and your clients websites. Even the smallest of errors have the capacity to undermine the credibility and effectiveness of your websites.

Here is our End of the Year Web Site Checklist:

  • Check Your Domain Name Record
  • Update Your Copyright Notice
  • Review Your Website Email Addresses
  • Update Your Confirmation and Automated Messages
  • Test and Re-Test Your Opt In-Forms
  • Check Your Automated Messages and Look for Error Messages
  • Check Your Password Protected Areas
  • Check for Broken or Missing Images
  • Test Order Forms and Order Pages
  • Review the Content in Your Disclaimers - Are They Up To Date?
  • Check Your Website’s Search Functionality and Feature’s
  • Check Your File Sizes and Download Times
  • Is Your Server Speed Up to Snuff - Test Monthly
  • Review Your Style-sheets, Standards, Accessibility and Compatibility
  • Validate Your Links
  • Update Your Time References
  • Review Your Privacy Policy
  • Check Your Search Engine Visibility

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3 Responses to “Annual Website Maintenance Checklist”

  1. takata Says:
    December 3rd, 2007 at 6:47 am

    Good list.Thank you.
    I will add to your list.
    *Check Your Tool Version. - CMS, Wordpress, Form Program…etc.

  2. JJS Says:
    December 22nd, 2007 at 7:36 am

    takata,

    Nice addition to the list!

    Thanks for commenting.

  3. Dubai Web Design, Development Says:
    April 7th, 2008 at 2:41 am

    Nice information for website maintenance.
    IF you add website traffic tool to check monthly traffic.

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