Website Maintenance & Care Plans

Your Website Is Running. Something's Breaking Inside.

Most business websites have active vulnerabilities, outdated plugins, and degrading performance, right now, today. My maintenance plans keep your site secure, fast, and generating leads.

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John Akande — Los Angeles SEO consultant for service businesses, ecommerce, SaaS and B2B

The Risk

What Happens to an Unmaintained Website.

These aren't edge cases. They're what happens to almost every website that isn't actively maintained, usually invisibly, until something breaks badly enough to notice.

56%

of hacked WordPress sites had outdated plugins at the time of breach.

conversion rate drop for every extra second of page load time.

30K+

websites are blacklisted by Google every day for security issues.

88%

of users don't return after a bad website experience, including downtime.

Why Websites Break

Four Things That Go Wrong Unattended.

Plugin conflicts and security holes. WordPress plugins each have their own update cycle and vulnerability surface. A plugin that was secure at launch may have a known CVE three months later, and most business owners don't discover this until someone else does. Plugin vulnerability scanning is the most critical ongoing maintenance task for any WordPress site.

Hacking and malware injection. A hacked website doesn't always announce itself with a defaced homepage. Most modern attacks are silent: injected scripts that redirect your visitors to other sites, malware that turns your server into a spam relay, or SEO poisoning that damages your rankings invisibly over months. By the time you notice, the damage is deep.

Page speed degradation. A website that launched at 90/100 PageSpeed often degrades to 55–65 within 12 months, as image uploads accumulate, plugins add scripts, and caching configuration drifts. Slow sites lose rankings, lose conversions, and cost more per lead on paid channels. Speed maintenance isn't a one-time fix, it's an ongoing discipline.

Stale content and outdated information. A website with outdated service descriptions, old pricing, broken links, or references to past events signals to both Google and visitors that the business isn't active. Google freshness signals are a real ranking factor. Visitors who see outdated information lose trust immediately, often before they've even read your proposition.

What's Covered

Six Areas of Ongoing Website Management.

01 · Security

Security Monitoring

Daily malware scanning, real-time vulnerability detection against known CVEs, firewall rule updates, login attempt monitoring, and immediate response when a threat is detected.

02 · Performance

Performance Optimisation

Weekly Core Web Vitals checks, image compression, caching configuration, and database optimisation. Your page speed stays in the green, not just at launch but month after month.

03 · Uptime

Uptime Monitoring

Your website is checked every 5 minutes, 24/7. If it goes down, you're notified within minutes and resolution begins immediately, not hours later when someone notices.

04 · Content

Content Updates

Monthly content refreshes on Growth and Premium plans: text changes, new blog posts, image updates, service page edits. Your website stays accurate and Google-fresh.

05 · Reporting

Analytics & Reporting

Monthly site health report: traffic trends, Core Web Vitals scores, security scan results, uptime percentage, and lead volume tracking. Clear visibility on what's happening with your site.

06 · Support

Priority Support

Growth and Premium plan clients get direct access for urgent issues (broken forms, display errors, hosting problems) with a guaranteed response time and same-day resolution on most issues.

Proven Results

See This Service In Action.

Security Services · Los Angeles

Joint Power Security

Site architecture audit identified 23 technical issues. After fixes and ongoing optimisation, organic traffic grew 340% and the site now generates 28 qualified leads/month consistently.

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Mental Health · Georgia

BHA Counseling

HIPAA-compliant website built with proper technical foundations, uptime monitoring, and a review request sequence. Fully booked in 87 days from a new-practice standing start.

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Healthcare Staffing · California

Committed Care Staffing

Website built for sustained lead generation from day one. Ongoing SEO and conversion optimisation grew qualified applications 280% and cut job board spend 70% in 6 months.

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Maintenance Plans

Three Plans. One per Growth Stage.

Every plan includes the non-negotiables: security, performance, and uptime. Growth and Premium add the proactive layer: content, conversion optimisation, and SEO improvements.

Essentials

Keep It Safe

For businesses that need the critical protection layer, security, uptime, and performance, without ongoing content management.

Security scanning and malware removal
Plugin and platform updates
Uptime monitoring (every 5 min, 24/7)
Core Web Vitals monitoring
Monthly health report
24-hour emergency response
SSL certificate management

Keep It Growing

For businesses that want their website actively contributing to growth, content fresh, conversion improving, and SEO compounding.

Everything in Essentials
2 hours content updates/month
Conversion optimisation testing
Monthly SEO health check and improvements
Keyword rank tracking (up to 20 terms)
4-hour priority emergency response
Quarterly strategy call

Premium

Keep It Compounding

For businesses that want their website actively managed as a growth asset, with proactive improvements across SEO, conversion, and content every month.

Everything in Growth
4 hours content updates/month
Monthly SEO improvements and new content
Keyword rank tracking (up to 50 terms)
CRO testing with monthly reporting
2-hour priority emergency response
Monthly strategy call + quarterly audit

Plans from $500/month. Custom enterprise plans available for multi-site businesses.

Is This Right for You?

Who Needs a Maintenance Plan.

You have a live website generating leads or revenue that you can't afford to have down
You have a WordPress site with plugins you haven't updated in months
Your website is more than 12 months old and hasn't had a performance review
You want someone responsible for your website's health who isn't you
You've been hacked before and can't afford for it to happen again
You want your website to keep improving, not just stay the same

Looking for more than maintenance? See our website conversion optimisation service if you want your current site generating more leads from its existing traffic.

Website Maintenance Questions, Answered Honestly.

Every plan includes security monitoring and patching, uptime monitoring with rapid response, plugin and platform updates, performance checks, and a monthly report showing site health metrics. The Growth and Premium plans add content updates, conversion optimisation testing, SEO improvements, and priority support. Full detail on what's included at each tier is available on the plan cards below.

Uptime monitoring runs every 5 minutes, 24/7. Security scans run daily. Performance checks and Core Web Vitals monitoring run weekly. Plugin vulnerability scanning runs in real time against known CVE databases. If anything changes (your site goes down, a security vulnerability appears, or page speed drops), you're notified immediately and we respond.

Malware removal and cleanup is included in all plans. The priority is to get your site restored quickly, identify the attack vector, patch it, and implement measures to prevent recurrence. For Growth and Premium plan clients, response time is under 4 hours. For Essentials clients, response time is within 24 hours. We also perform a post-incident review so you understand exactly what happened.

Yes, content updates are included in the Growth and Premium plans (up to 2 hours/month on Growth, up to 4 hours/month on Premium). This covers text changes, image swaps, blog post uploads, new service additions, and similar updates. Development-scope changes (new pages, new functionality, template changes) are scoped and quoted separately.

Hosted platforms (Squarespace, Wix, Webflow, Shopify) handle platform-level security and updates automatically. However, maintenance value on these platforms comes from content freshness, conversion optimisation, SEO monitoring, and performance tracking, all of which apply regardless of platform. WordPress sites have the highest technical maintenance needs due to the plugin ecosystem.

Yes, gradually but measurably. Page speed degrades as plugins and themes bloat over time. Security issues can result in Google blacklisting your site entirely. Stale content signals to Google that a site is lower-priority. Core Web Vitals scores that were passing can drift into failing. A properly maintained site holds and improves its ranking position; an unmaintained one loses it.

Book a free website audit. I check security vulnerabilities, Core Web Vitals, plugin update status, uptime history, and SEO health. Most unmaintained websites have at least 3–5 issues requiring immediate attention, many of them invisible to the owner unless specifically looked for. The audit is free and takes about a week to complete.

Find Out What's Breaking Right Now.

Book a free website audit. I'll check your security vulnerabilities, Core Web Vitals, plugin update status, uptime history, and SEO health, and give you a clear picture of what needs immediate attention and what a maintenance plan would look like for your specific setup.

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