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Should you be wasting your fabulous time on keeping your website up to date?

Should you be wasting your fabulous time on keeping your website up to date?

Should you be wasting your fabulous time on keeping your website up to date?

Should you be wasting your fabulous time on keeping your website up to date?

Is your time best spent keeping your website up to date? With all the things that must be done in your business does keeping your website up to date one that you should be spending your fabulous time on? Really, if finances were not a factor would you still be the person keeping your website up to date?

 

I know your to-do list is a mile long and keeping your website up to date just happens to be one of the tasks that’s at the bottom week after week. Oops. Hey, I’ll be honest with you. It does for me, so I’m not throwing any stones. I go through seasons when I simply do not have time to get out content or refresh the content on my WordPress Website.

 

Now that we understand the issue, what is the solution? It may be time to take those items off your to-do list and put them on our to-do list. Just sayin’

Let’s start with content

How much content do you have on your site now? Do you have a great plan in place for reusing that content? Are you going through your old posts and refreshing the images? If not, this could be something that is outsourced.

Why is it important to keep the content fresh? If you use Pinterest, adding new images to a previously published article with relevant content gives it new life.  Come on, sometimes coming up with new and exciting content can be a challenge. Well, unless you’re a writer then it’s super simple for you.

 

The Upkeep

Yep, keeping your website up to date it needs to happen. I’ve stood on my soapbox so many times regarding the upkeep. It’s one of those things, that’s not important until it’s important.

 

Ya know like the upkeep of your house if you let it go the dirt will still be there. Zang it!

 

While you can spread out the time in between. I’d like you to really consider not doing this because your website is software that is updated with new and improved security updates on the regular.  

 

Schedule one to two hours per month, to performing monthly backups. Applying any needed updates to the theme or plugins. Reviewing spam, checking links. Keeping your website up to date, you know all those exciting things that I am sure you just L-O-V-E to do. I talk about monthly maintenance here in a previous post.

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Back to the question

Is your time best spent keeping your website up to date? Really, you’re the only person that can answer this question. Does keeping up with your website bring out your fabulous?

Hey, it may not seem like a ton of time, but those couple hours here or couple hours there, that all adds up to time that you're not working on items that generate revenue in your business.

When you are saying “yes” to the website to do list, you’re saying “no” to focusing on your fabulous.  

What if you outsource the upkeep and freshening up of your content? Wouldn’t it feel freeing knowing that someone else is handling this for you?

Leave ya with a couple free resources –  yay! 

WordPress Monthly Maintenance

WordPress Monthly Maintenance

WordPress Monthly Maintenance

WordPress Monthly Maintenance are you keeping up on this?

With everything seeming like it is moving at the speed of light, it is difficult to juggle all the demands that we place on ourselves. Most of the time we do not have enough hours in the day to complete the items on the to-do list that absolutely must be done.

Not sure how you feel about this, but waking up in the middle of the night with the urgent thought about an important item that slipped off the list? Not my favorite way to startle me awake. When this happens I take a note of it for the morning and it gets added to my list.

Take the time

Keeping up to date with WordPress Monthly Maintenance does take time. Especially if the thought of working on your website feels the same as nails on a chalkboard.

To prevent the monthly maintenance of my WordPress site from slipping off the radar, I created a specific checklist in my task management software with the recurring items to completed. It has three buckets for when I am short on time, have a little more time and have a lot of time. Who am I kidding I never have a lot of time, but I will make time for these items because they are very important for the health of my website.

Checklist

Are you interested in downloading my WordPress Monthly Maintenance checklist? If so, sign up for my email list and receive a free PDF copy along with a monthly reminder email that its time. Link is below.

I hope that you find this checklist helpful, let me know if you have items that you complete that are not on this list. This checklist is ever-changing to keep up with the consent changes of WordPress.

Do you have a system in place? If so, tell me about it below in the comment section.

Enjoy your Day!

Michele

DYI Maintenance Checklist

Download our Monthly Maintenance Checklist. 

This simple checklist will walk you through the tasks that need to be completed each month.