Posts Tagged ‘CU website best practices’
The Top Five SEO Fixes for Credit Union Websites
You have to walk before you can run, and the same applies to optimizing your credit union’s website for search engines. Although AI bots are adding a few new wrinkles, the basics of SEO are about the same as ever: focus on making your site useful for the real live human people you serve, and…
Read More
The Top Five Interface Problems on Credit Union Websites
Not to toot our own horns, but we build a lot of credit union websites (toot, toot). And so we see a lot of interface problems on old websites we need to solve with the new websites. Here are the top five problems we see specifically related to interfaces on credit union websites, and some…
Read More
Credit Union website best practices: condense, consolidate, and cull content
One of the strongest trends we’ve seen over the last few years in the credit union websites we build could be called “page compression”. Back in the ancient days (you know, maybe four years ago in web years) a typical CU website launched with 125-150 pages, maybe even more. Nowadays? That’s closer to 50 –…
Read More
Fight fraud with your CU’s website
Let’s face it: fraud is an unfortunate fact of life, and protecting your credit union’s members against fraud and scams is a long-term, constant battle on many fronts. Fortunately, better fraud awareness can go a long way toward preventing fraud before it starts. Your website is the central component of making your members more fraud-savvy…
Read More
Five shocking things you didn’t know about credit union websites
We’ve built and managed a lot of credit union websites over the years, and we’ve found that there are a quite a few things that make credit union websites very different – sometimes in unexpected ways. 1) People are Googling your credit union, not your products. The Google Search Console stats are very clear and…
Read More
10 things that need to be on your website (but probably aren’t)
We’ve built websites for credit unions for a long time, so we have a lot to say about them. One of our favorite things to say is, “Credit union websites are weird.” (In marketing weird is good, so don’t overthink it.) People visit their credit union’s website for different reasons than other websites. They’re not…
Read More
Do PDFs belong in your credit union’s website?
The average credit union website has a couple dozen PDFs lying around (and some far more). Sometimes, they’re necessary for things like printable forms. But much of the time, it would be better for your members to put this information into a web page. Here’s how to decide what place PDFs have in your credit…
Read More
Five Credit Union Website Trends for 2025
We build a lot of credit union websites, and we’ve been doing it for many years. This specialization gives us an unique perspective, and so we’re seeing some really interesting trends start to pop up. Here are the top five as we head into 2025. 1) Fewer pages Our last several sites have launched with…
Read More
When it’s time to DIY and when it’s time to call a pro
Credit Union Website Best Practices #4 When we launch a new credit union website, we make sure our clients have the tools and training to handle pretty much everything themselves. Blogging, updating rates, adding and managing pages, updating promotions, managing navigation, and generally keeping their site looking good and the content up to date are…
Read More
Credit Union Website Best Practices #2: Simplicity
Welcome to a new series from iDiz, Inc., “Credit Union Website Best Practices” where we’ll share up to the minute details of what we’ve learned and what we’re still learning about building credit union websites. Credit union websites are about utility, not entertainment – people visit your site to solve a problem, get information, or…
Read More