Why & How · Web WatchDawg

Why do you need Web WatchDawg?

What do you do when your site goes down? Maybe you broke it while making an update? It can be stressful and expensive to hire a developer every time you need to make a small change. With Web WatchDawg on your side your site is as safe as possible, and content updates are managed efficiently for a fixed cost.

Why do you need Web WatchDawg? Well, the big reason is that WordPress is by far the most popular web content management software ever. WordPress is now running more than 40% of the internet, which makes it a big target for hackers. It’s crucial to consistently back up your website to a remote location, to keep your software up to date, to monitor for downtime, and to maintain the newest and best possible security features.

Web WatchDawg can handle all that and more. We’re your website’s best friend!

How do we protect your site?

Best of Breed Support

You can use your hour for minor content updates, staff training, troubleshooting, developing your SEO strategy, your branding and marketing, and improving your user interface. Everything you need to help you improve your web presence.

Keeping your content fresh gets you higher search engine rankings. Outdated content can hurt your rankings. Having Web WatchDawg at your service encourages you to keep your site up to date.

Reliable Backups

Everyone makes mistakes from time to time. You might delete an important file on your website, make a change that breaks some of its functionality, or install an update that doesn’t play nicely with your site’s ecosystem. Your site could get hacked. Having a backup readily available will save your site and minimize downtime.

You can rely on Web WatchDawg to run regular backups of your site and to upload them to a remote server in the cloud. No worries, we can recover your site quickly when necessary.

Faithful Automatic Updates

The world of WordPress is constantly being updated to improve security, fix bugs, and add new features. This often requires any add-ons your site is using to be updated as well, which sometimes cause serious incompatibility problems that can bring down your site. Web WatchDawg makes sure your site is running the most up-to-date versions if WordPress and all the 3rd-party extras your site depends on.

Vigilant Monitoring

With Web WatchDawg you will never have to worry about extensive downtime. In today’s digital world, your online presence can be the lifeblood of your business, so it’s crucial that your site is continuously up and running. If your website doesn’t function properly, it can mean lost business opportunities and lost revenue.

Search engines like Google rank your website based on what they find when crawling around the internet. If your site is down, search engines will not find any content or pages to index and rank. Web WatchDawg helps you make sure Google doesn’t think your site is no longer active.

Steadfast Security

Most often hackers exploit known weaknesses in outdated versions of web content management systems and 3rd party add ons. A hacker may infect your site with ransomware, redirect traffic somewhere else, infect visitors with malware, mine untraceable crypto-currencies, steal identities, and more.

Site security is also essential for search engine optimization (SEO). Your site can be blacklisted from search engines if your site isn’t secure. The longer your site is broken, the longer it will take to get your site reputation back. Web WatchDawg uses the best security checks available to keep your site as secure as possible.