Playbooks for mortgage websites

Guides for loan officers, brokers and branches: program pages, estimators, where inquiries go, compliance blocks, branch structure and migrations. Written for people who run the site, not for people who run the loan. Nothing here is lending, licensing or financial advice.

  • 7articles, each one a working guide rather than a summary
  • 6subjects, from program pages to migrations
  • 19kwords, every figure in them carrying a cited source
Migrate without losing rankings: Inventory before design; Map to the specific page; Single-hop permanent redirects; Watch weekly for a quarter. Infographic with Toffee, the studio mascot.

Redesign and migrationSeptember 18, 202611 min read

Migrating a mortgage website without losing the rankings you have

A redirect-first plan for moving a mortgage website: inventory, URL mapping, redirects, structured data, and what to watch in the weeks after the switch.

By Rosalind Achebe

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Who writes here

Two editorial personas, each with a beat. Neither holds a professional license, and nothing either of them writes is advice about a loan, a rate or a borrower's situation.

  • Graham Whitacre

    Mortgage Marketing Systems Lead, Charlotte, NC

    Loan officer websites. CRM and LOS integration. Application path design.

    4 articles

  • Rosalind Achebe

    Branch Website Strategist, Phoenix, AZ

    Branch website structure. Originator profile pages. Compliance footers and NMLS display.

    3 articles

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