Webmaster is a critical position and needs a deep training in order to be capable of handling such duties. We often hear about maintaining a website but we do not know exactly how to maintain a website. Site maintenance is one of the top responsibility of a Webmaster. It is a way where you can know any potential errors and adjustments on a certain site. Meaning webmaster must know the process, flow and the system of a certain site.
Links are very important and should work well on a site. Under site maintenance, link checking is a must. Webmaster should check each site links if they are working properly. Must take note and repair all broken links as it will affect the site's performance on the search engines. Link of images and download links should also be check to see if they all worked as what they should be.
Checking log reports is also essential. Webmaster should monitor all users who logs on the site. Through that way, the webmaster will know if the site needs an upgrade due to large data stored on the site or needs some adjustments, design changes, systems or other site functions that you think are essential to be made in order to make the site user friendly and more useful.
A webmaster should know how to update a site like creating new featured links or promos, where users can see a latest entry about the site. Site maintenance also includes moderating comments and responding to comments. This is important to make comment page more interactive, to get acknowledgement and concerns that needs to be forwarded to the site owner.
Tuesday, July 5, 2011
Site Maintenance as Webmaster's Duty
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