Website Management / Designed By Dane

Website Management & Oversight

Your website doesn't need another full-time job attached to it.

If you'd rather not be the person responsible for every update, new page, photo change, broken link, or website improvement, I can stay involved after launch and handle the ongoing work.

For a small business, that's straightforward ongoing support — updates, maintenance, and content cleanup that keep a site accurate and current. For a larger or agency-managed website, it can go further into independent oversight, QA, and monitoring of a site with many moving parts.

Website Management is optional. Your website doesn't become a subscription because I built it.

Ongoing Management

Keep Your Website From Becoming Outdated

Websites naturally accumulate outdated content over time. Old promotions, discontinued services, duplicate pages, outdated pricing, abandoned landing pages, and thin content can make it harder for visitors — and search engines — to understand what your business actually offers today.

As part of ongoing website management, I can review your site for content that should be updated, improved, consolidated, redirected, or removed entirely.

The goal isn't to simply add more pages. It's to keep the pages you already have accurate, useful, and working toward your current business goals.

Keeping your content current can also reduce conflicting information across your website and give traditional search engines — and AI-powered search tools — clearer, more accurate information about your business to interpret.

01

Update

Refresh outdated details, pricing, services, and staff information so the site matches the business today.

02

Improve

Strengthen weak pages and thin content so each page communicates clearly and works harder.

03

Consolidate

Merge overlapping or duplicate content into fewer, stronger pages.

04

Redirect

Point old or replaced pages to the right destination so visitors and search engines keep finding what matters.

05

Remove

Remove content that no longer serves the business or is actively confusing to visitors. Cleanup itself doesn't improve rankings — it's about clarity and accuracy.

What Usually Happens

The website isn't forgotten. It just keeps getting pushed down the list.

The Service Changed

But the website still describes the old version.

You Have Better Photos

They're still sitting in your phone.

A Page Needs Fixing

You've known about it for three months.

Customers Keep Asking the Same Question

The answer should probably be on the website.

Something Looks Wrong on Mobile

But you're not sure where to start.

You Want to Add Something

A new service, page, team member, gallery, announcement, location, FAQ, or other business update.

None of these are usually emergencies. That's exactly why they keep getting postponed.

Ongoing Help

Ongoing website optimization, maintenance & content cleanup.

Website Management keeps the website aligned with the business as the business changes — and that includes reviewing what's already there, not only adding to it.

Beyond the updates I make, ongoing management can proactively identify outdated promotions, discontinued services, inaccurate pricing or business information, outdated staff details, duplicate or overlapping content, weak or thin pages, old landing pages, outdated service-area information, broken or outdated internal links, content that should be consolidated, and content that no longer provides meaningful value.

Content Updates
Text, services, hours, staff information, FAQs, announcements, and other appropriate content changes.
Image Updates
Replace or add supplied photos and visual assets.
Page Improvements
Improve existing sections or pages when something isn't communicating clearly.
New Content
Add appropriate sections or pages where the plan or scope supports it.
Mobile Cleanup
Correct supported layout or display issues that appear as content evolves.
Links & Navigation
Update navigation, buttons, links, and customer pathways as needed.
Search Foundation
Maintain appropriate titles, headings, internal linking, page structure, and other supported on-page fundamentals as site content changes.
General Site Upkeep
Small fixes and adjustments that would otherwise sit on the owner's to-do list.

Every request is still evaluated against its actual size. Scope matters — some things fit naturally within a management plan, and some things are their own project.

Clear Boundaries

Management doesn't mean unlimited work.

A management plan covers ongoing upkeep and reasonable improvements — not everything the website could ever become.

If something is larger than the plan is meant to cover, I'll tell you before doing the work and quote it separately.

A management plan does not automatically include:

  • A complete redesign every month
  • Unlimited new pages
  • Custom application development
  • Unlimited ecommerce or product entry
  • Full-time search-engine optimization
  • Paid advertising
  • Social media management
  • Graphic design for every business need
  • Immediate emergency support at all hours
  • Unlimited copywriting
  • Complex custom functionality
  • Work on unsupported systems
Your Website Is Still Yours

Keeping me involved doesn't mean giving me control of your website.

Management is an ongoing service relationship — it doesn't change who owns the website.

You retain ownership and access to the website.

The site does not become proprietary to Designed By Dane.

You can stop management without losing the website.

Third-party platform, domain, or hosting costs may still exist separately.

You can choose to manage the website yourself later.

Management is a service you pay for, not a form of ownership you rent.

You're paying me to manage the website — not renting the website from me.

A Good Fit

Website Management makes the most sense when...

If you enjoy managing your own website and rarely need help, you may not need a management plan at all.

Website Management for Small Businesses

Ongoing website support designed for businesses that aren't run by a marketing department.

The publicly listed Website Management plans are designed primarily for small and independently operated businesses that need reliable ongoing website support without the cost or complexity of a traditional agency relationship.

Depending on the plan, that may include content updates, targeted website improvements, search fundamentals, technical checks, visitor-behavior review, reporting, and keeping the website aligned with the business as it changes.

If your website is bigger or more complex than what a monthly plan is built for, that's a separate conversation — outlined below.

Monthly Options

Choose how much ongoing help you actually need.

Starter

$75/month

Light ongoing upkeep

Best for businesses that mostly need occasional small updates and someone available to keep things current.

Plus

$150/month

More active website support

For businesses expecting more frequent updates, improvements, content changes, or ongoing attention.

Growth

$250/month

Ongoing improvement

For businesses that want the website worked on more actively rather than only maintained — including ongoing page improvements, content additions, structural refinements, search-foundation work where appropriate, and more active site development within plan scope.

The difference between plans is the amount and frequency of ongoing work the website needs.

If you're not sure where you fit, tell me what tends to come up each month and I'll point you toward the smallest plan that makes sense.

When a Website Needs More

Large & Multi-Location Website Management

Custom Pricing

The monthly plans above are built around the needs of typical small-business websites. Bigger sites — multi-location, high-traffic, or with a heavy page structure — usually benefit from recurring auditing, reporting, visitor-behavior review, and more active implementation. Those are scoped to the site, not to a preset tier.

Who this is for:

  • Larger or regional companies
  • Multi-location or high-traffic websites
  • Sites with dozens or hundreds of pages
  • Significant service-area or location-page structures
  • Substantial digital advertising
  • Recurring QA, monitoring, and audit needs
  • Teams already working with an agency or marketing partner

What pricing is based on:

Website size, number of pages and locations, traffic, monitoring and reporting requirements, update volume, existing agency responsibilities, required turnaround, and whether I'm implementing changes or only identifying and reporting them. I'll walk you through what fits before anything is quoted.

For Larger Websites

Large Website Content Audits

For established businesses with larger websites, I can perform a structured content audit to identify outdated pages, duplicate or overlapping content, legacy campaigns, old service information, weak landing pages, broken internal pathways, and pages that may no longer provide meaningful value.

From there, I provide clear recommendations for what should stay, be improved, consolidated, redirected, or removed.

This is scoped to your specific website rather than assigned a fixed price — I'll walk you through what a review would involve before anything is quoted.

Independent Website Oversight

Websites aren't finished after one update.

Services change, promotions expire, pricing changes, staff and business information change, new pages get added, old pages become irrelevant, visitor behavior shifts, and search performance changes over time. Left alone, this can make information inconsistent across a website.

Ongoing management lets me monitor and improve the website over time — rather than treating it as something that's finished permanently after a single update. Larger websites have a lot of moving parts, and even with a marketing team or agency already in place, individual problems can go unnoticed.

A page that stopped updating. A phone number that's no longer right. A promotion that ran out weeks ago. Keeping content accurate and current also gives search engines — and AI-powered search tools — clearer, more consistent information about your business.

Recurring website auditing and quality control can monitor for:

Outdated promotions
Expired rebates or incentives
Broken forms
Broken links
Redirect problems
Incorrect phone numbers
Incorrect contact information
Inconsistent location pages
Duplicate or legacy pages
Outdated service information
Discontinued services
Outdated staff information
Weak or thin pages
Old landing pages
Outdated service-area information
Content to consolidate or remove
Spelling and content issues
Template inconsistencies
CTA problems
Conversion-flow issues
Mobile usability
Internal linking
Search indexing issues
Canonical issues
SEO and content inconsistencies
Visitor-behavior problems
Ongoing recommendations

The exact scope always depends on the website and the agreement — not every engagement automatically includes everything on this list. This is positioned as ongoing website quality control and improvement, not simply a one-time audit.

Works Alongside Your Team

Already have a marketing agency? That's okay.

Working with Designed By Dane doesn't mean firing anyone. You can keep your marketing agency, SEO company, advertising agency, web development company, or internal marketing team — and still bring in someone whose full attention is on the website itself.

Large marketing teams and agencies often manage many responsibilities. Designed By Dane can provide an additional layer of attention focused specifically on the website itself.

A complementary relationship:

Website accuracy
Content QA
SEO fundamentals
Visitor experience
Conversion paths
Promotions
Location pages
Technical website issues
Visitor behavior
Ongoing website monitoring

You don't have to replace your agency to work with Designed By Dane.

I can identify and report issues, implement approved improvements, manage the website directly, or take on a larger website-management role when the business needs it — whether that's alongside an existing team or as the primary partner.

Visitor-Behavior Monitoring

Traditional analytics show what happened. Visitor behavior shows why.

Analytics can tell you that a page got traffic and views. Behavioral monitoring helps reveal what visitors actually tried to do while they were there — and what got in the way.

Rage clicks
Dead clicks
Areas visitors repeatedly try to interact with
Scroll depth
Which CTAs receive attention
Where visitors disengage
Navigation friction
Conversion obstacles
Opportunities for targeted website improvements

The value isn't the tool itself. The value is monitoring how real visitors use the website, interpreting what the behavior shows, and using those findings to make targeted improvements. Microsoft Clarity may be part of how I gather that information — but the analysis and the recommendations are where the actual work is.

What This Looks Like in Practice

Ongoing management, in real examples

Visitor behavior

A visitor repeatedly interacted with an emergency-service message, revealing a missing conversion action. The page was updated with direct call/text options.

Website accuracy

Ongoing review identified outdated or inconsistent business information that was corrected before it remained live indefinitely.

Business changes

As clients add services, update policies, or change how they operate, ongoing management keeps the website aligned with the actual business.

Free Website QA Snapshot

I'll personally review the website you have right now.

A focused, no-cost review of your live website — identifying current issues or opportunities involving usability, content accuracy, SEO structure, conversion paths, outdated information, broken links, and overall website management.

Have a large, multi-location, or agency-managed website?

I can specifically review it for cross-page consistency, template problems, outdated content, and issues that may be falling through the cracks as the site grows.

A human — not just software — reviews your website in context. The snapshot is a free starting point that can lead into one-time improvements, ongoing management, independent oversight, or a larger custom engagement.

Search Expectations

Search results change gradually — not overnight.

A one-time website update doesn't instantly change Google rankings. Search engines need time to recrawl pages, reindex changes, process updated content, discover internal-link changes, reevaluate website structure, and observe the site over time.

This is part of why ongoing engagements of roughly three to six months or longer can make more sense than treating search as a one-time cleanup. It's about ongoing monitoring, improvement, testing, and refinement — not a guarantee of a specific position in Google.

Used well, that time becomes steady, measurable improvement through monitoring, refinement, and testing — which is what ongoing engagement is for.

Not Looking for Monthly Help?

Sometimes you just need one thing fixed.

If you don't need ongoing Website Management, that's fine. I also take on one-time website improvements and updates when the scope makes sense — a page that needs rebuilding, a new service page, mobile cleanup, content changes, navigation issues, design improvements, homepage improvements, or another clearly defined website update.

One-time work is quoted based on what actually needs to be done.

No Ticket System Required

Send me what needs changing.

01

Send the request

Email me what needs updating. Include text, photos, links, or context where appropriate.

02

I review it

I'll confirm what needs to be done and whether it falls within the management scope.

03

I make the change

The website gets updated.

04

You review it

If the change needs an appropriate adjustment, we'll refine it.

I primarily manage project and website requests through email so there is a written record of what changed, what was requested, and what still needs attention.

Existing Website

I don't have to be the person who built it.

If you already have a website on a supported platform, I can potentially manage or improve it — regardless of who originally built it.

Existing Website Improvements

WordPress Squarespace Wix GoDaddy Website Builder Hostinger Website Builder

Designed By Dane can make targeted improvements to existing websites on any of these platforms. WordPress is offered for existing-site improvements and ongoing website management rather than fully custom WordPress builds.

Already have a WordPress website?

You don't necessarily need a rebuild. If your existing WordPress site is established but needs better content, stronger calls-to-action, cleaner layouts, improved mobile usability, SEO cleanup, or other targeted improvements, Designed By Dane can work with the site you already have.

Because WordPress websites can vary significantly by theme, plugins, hosting, and custom development, the site is reviewed first to determine what can be changed safely and practically — then work is scoped around what the website actually needs. Ongoing Website Management may also be available for existing WordPress sites after that review.

I'll need to look at the existing site first. Some websites are straightforward to take over; others may have technical limitations or existing setups that make management or changes impractical.

The Difference

The goal isn't to keep touching the website. It's to keep it useful.

Without Someone Owning the Website Task

  • Updates pile up
  • Old information stays live
  • Small problems wait
  • New services never make it onto the site
  • Nobody remembers what was supposed to change

With Ongoing Management

  • Changes have somewhere to go
  • Information gets updated
  • Improvements happen over time
  • The website can evolve with the business
  • There's one person responsible for handling the website work

The point isn't constant activity. It's accountability — knowing the website isn't quietly falling out of date.

When Something Bigger Comes Up

Sometimes an update turns into a project.

A management client may eventually need:

If something becomes its own project, I'll tell you. We'll scope it separately before the work starts.

Your Choice

You can absolutely manage the website yourself.

If you want the keys after launch and prefer to make your own changes, that's completely fine.

Website Management exists for the business owner who would rather send me the update and move on with their day.

It's convenience, not dependency.

FAQ

Common questions about Website Management.

Keep It Current

If you'd rather not manage the website, I can.

Tell me what website you have, what platform it's on, and what kind of updates tend to come up.

I'll tell you whether Website Management makes sense and which level I think fits — including if I think you don't need a monthly plan at all.