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Website Maintenance Plan & more for VIP Clients

The Website Maintenance Plan is the easiest way to keep your Squarespace site looking and functioning as fresh as the day we launched.

how it works

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why Sign Up?

The easiest way to keep your site up to date.

Your website doesn’t need a website maintenance plan.

The Squarespace platform handles various maintenance aspects all by itself, so you don’t need to worry about routine technical aspects, like updating plugins or security fixes.

However, your website does need eyes on it regularly to ensure that third-party integrations don’t conflict with Squarespace and that everything keeps running smoothly.

And what about when you want to make updates, like changing images or content?

As a website owner, you’re responsible for:

Ensuring that integrations and custom elements on your site don’t break when Squarespace releases updates.
Making sure that all site changes are compliant with website accessibility standards.
Checking any site edits for mobile-responsiveness.
Reviewing Google Search Console reports for any new issues.
Optimizing, renaming and writing alt-text when replacing images.
Keeping your visual brand consistent across your site.
Regular site reviews for search engine optimization (SEO).
Creating 301 redirects for changed internal links and ensuring that any broken links to external sites are updated (for SEO purposes).
And more. (Yeah, there’s more.)

Here to make your workload lighter:

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You have lots of little site updates to make but they are just clogging up your to-do list – or your time off.
The idea of compressing an image, renaming it and drafting alt-text just for a one-to-one swap makes you want to poke your eyes out.
You have no idea what the “New Mobile Usability issues detected” Google email you just received means, and it would be ideal to have someone you trust handle it.
Every time you make an update to your site it doesn’t look quite as good as you know it could.
You realize you should be checking on analytics and SEO – but are a bit overwhelmed and honestly, don’t have time for it.
Looking to the future, it would be incredible to have a website strategist in your back pocket to help lay the tracks alongside your internal business development.
It would be such a relief to let someone else handle the your website strategy so you can thrive in your zone of genius, and focus on what grows your business – and your revenue.

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Ok, here are the details:

SEO Monitoring & Essential Updates

Google Search Console review & adjustments on a monthly basis.
I’ll check for broken links, mobile site issues, and more. Then, I make any quick updates needed to keep your site in tip-top shape.
Weekly Updates

Support or small updates for your site, 1x per week.
“Small updates” include any quick 10-minute fixes; such as replacing a photo, adding text, updating links, or making design tweaks.
Monthly Website Checkups

per request
Request a review, and I’ll recommend site improvements
30% off A la Carte Services

30% discount on all ala carte services, including from the Secret Client Menu:
Scouting Session, Field Guide Hour, VIP Design Days, you name it.

*does not include custom projects

HOW it Works

Each month, submit your site request through your Notion dashboard.
Expect a ~4-day turnaround, unless I need to reach out to you for more info.
At the beginning of the month, I’ll send an email with a review of all the work that’s been done, including any SEO or code updates I made to keep your site running in tip top shape
The Website Maintenance Plan is billed on the 25th of each month at $99/month. The plan requires a 3-month initial commitment; after that, it can be cancelled at any time.
Keep scrolling for more FAQ!

is a website maintenance plan for you?

Focus on your business *& I’ll handle**your site*

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At $99/month, the Squarespace website maintenance plan lets you to take a step back from admin to focus where it counts.

Of course you know how to edit your site, but as a busy entrepreneur, it’s not the best use of your time and skills. It takes your eyes off the prize: cultivating what brings in revenue and lights you up.

This is the most proven investment that adds a web designer to your team in a flexible, risk-free way. Plus, it gives you back time to build and grow your business where you can make the most impact.

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FAQ

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Unfortunately, no. I only offer this for websites that I’ve built. If you’re interested in having me build you an amazing website, reach out! I’d love to chat.
The plan has 4 key elements:
1. Small site updates x4 per month
2. SEO monitoring and essential SEO updates
3. Monthly website checkups, per request
4. 30% off a la carte services
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The key is that it must be something that takes less than 20 minutes to complete and can be done without creating new design elements. Your dashboard will have a walkthrough to find out the update you need, and even have a pre-made Google Doc template to make content collection easy!
Common ways that members use the membership are:
- Site support (code updates, etc)
- Add a new portfolio item
- Update a section of text content
- Link updates
- Content Removal
- Updates to Privacy Policy, Cookie Policy, TOC
- New Podcast excerpt
- New event info
- New team member
- Update Image/Video
- New service, email, calendar, etc in Scheduling
- 301 redirects or broken link fixing
- New testimonial(s)
- New Blog Post (does not include content copywriting, that is offered as a separate service)
- Adding additional pages or restructuring the site / design. However, this can certainly be done in a VIP Design Day (only available for clients).
- Writing blog posts and sourcing images. Any blogs posted will feature only text and images that you have provided. However, if you’d like to include ongoing blog content creation, let’s chat! This is an additional service that Maypop Creative Studio does provide.
- Providing / creating strategy. However, you can book a Scouting Session at 30% off!
If something you need is outside the scope of the plan, like adding a new page, I’ll provide a quote.
Members receive 30% off additional a la carte services.
I have an easy-to-follow, step-by-step walkthrough that’s accessible right from your dashboard to gather all of the info i need to keep your site up-to-date. There is even a Google Doc Template to gather any needed content.
The membership is designed to make your life easier, not harder.
Most small updates have a ~4-day turnaround when submitted through the Client Dashboard, as long as I have all content required.
At the beginning of each month, I’ll send you an email with:
- what has been done the previous month,
- SEO updates that I handled,
- & any out of office dates coming up in the coming months.
All plans are auto-drafted monthly on the 25th of the month to your credit card on file.
Since I keep this time in my schedule clear for you, the monthly updates do not roll over from week to week.
Of course! The plan requires a 3-month commitment upon initial signup, and after that you can cancel at any point from within the dashboard.
Cancellations will not apply to any invoices already issued.