There’s a great article on Entrepreneur.com about the 10 questions to ask before hiring a Webmaster. We cannot stress the importance of doing due diligence before eliciting services from webmasters or companies providing website maintenance. In the past, ‘updating’ a website was simple – just copy-paste the content and upload to the Internet. Nowadays, with databases, SEO, security, CMS, frameworks, reputation and authority, you need to consider much more. Your webmaster needs to be multi-skilled and reliable. Price is not a differentiating factor. In fact, if someone promises you ‘best price’ then you can be sure they will take shortcuts which will burn you and your reputation in the long run.
Here’s a snapshot of the list:
Here’s the full article.
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