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Screenshot of the Republic Records website
Screenshot of the Republic Records website
Project Overview

Repositioning MojoTrek for Its Next Stage of Growth

Founded in 2017 to help companies scale technology teams, Mojo Trek had since transitioned into building and modernizing software for mid-market clients, but its site still led with the old staffing model, and its content architecture was fragmented into 162 indexed pages across five disconnected content areas.

Those pages were the key. They carried years of organic authority, including high-volume pages that required careful preservation. Their brand and their work had changed, but their site’s equity hadn't moved with it.

Introduced to HALO through the HubSpot expert network, Profoundly, Mojo Trek came to us with an actionable brief: reposition the brand and rebuild the site without resetting the search equity it had spent years earning. We led the full engagement: visual identity, information architecture, UX and brand design, SEO & GEO migration planning, and HubSpot CMS development.

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The Challenge

Outdated Positioning. Fragmented Architecture. Fragile Search Equity.

Mojo Trek's business had outgrown its website. The company was delivering end-to-end software, but the site still spoke in staffing terms — and the content had sprawled into dozens of overlapping pages across services, technologies, industries, and editorial. Visitors could find information; they couldn't easily understand what Mojo Trek does today, how it works, or why its approach is different. The harder constraint was equity: several of those pages drove meaningful organic traffic, and that visibility was tied to the old story. The rebuild had to carry the authority forward while guiding visitors into a clearer, current one.

Background photo of Billie EIlish
The Challenge

Outdated Positioning. Fragmented Architecture. Fragile Search Equity.

Mojo Trek's business had outgrown its website. The company was delivering end-to-end software, but the site still spoke in staffing terms — and the content had sprawled into dozens of overlapping pages across services, technologies, industries, and editorial. Visitors could find information; they couldn't easily understand what Mojo Trek does today, how it works, or why its approach is different. The harder constraint was equity: several of those pages drove meaningful organic traffic, and that visibility was tied to the old story. The rebuild had to carry the authority forward while guiding visitors into a clearer, current one.

The Process

Rebuilding the Brand from Strategy to System

We partnered with Mojo Trek to treat this as a strategic transformation, not a visual refresh — sequenced so positioning decisions drove the architecture, the architecture drove the design, and search equity was protected before a single page went live.

  1. Discovery & Positioning — Fittingly for a company whose own engagements start with discovery, so did ours. We audited the live site, evaluated all 162 URLs against a structured decision framework, and resolved the central question: how to move the brand from staffing language to software-delivery positioning without discarding what already worked.


  2. Information Architecture — Five disconnected content areas collapsed into a six-page architecture — Home, What We Do, How We Work, Our Work, About, and Careers — organized around a single delivery narrative instead of a catalog of services.


  3. Brand & Interface Direction — Moodboarding, photography direction, and parallel design versioning. We explored competing type systems and hero treatments in wireframe before converging on one — so the visual language was a deliberate choice, not a default.


  4. SEO-Safe URL Migration — A three-tier framework governed every URL — preserve, evaluate, or archive. High-value pages were mapped to their closest new destination; roughly 90 technology pages were handled through HubSpot wildcard redirects; the updated sitemap went to Google Search Console at launch.


  5. HubSpot CMS Build — A modular HubSpot theme with reusable templates for website pages, case studies, and blog content — assembled from governed components like hero banners, service cards, testimonials, and calls to action, so marketing can publish without engineering.


  6. Conversion & Inbound Optimization — Strategic internal linking across service, process, and case-study pages; CTAs and forms throughout; structured data and analytics configured to turn organic visibility into qualified pipeline.

  1. Discovery & Positioning — Fittingly for a company whose own engagements start with discovery, so did ours. We audited the live site, evaluated all 162 URLs against a structured decision framework, and resolved the central question: how to move the brand from staffing language to software-delivery positioning without discarding what already worked.


  2. Information Architecture — Five disconnected content areas collapsed into a six-page architecture — Home, What We Do, How We Work, Our Work, About, and Careers — organized around a single delivery narrative instead of a catalog of services.


  3. Brand & Interface Direction — Moodboarding, photography direction, and parallel design versioning. We explored competing type systems and hero treatments in wireframe before converging on one — so the visual language was a deliberate choice, not a default.


  4. SEO-Safe URL Migration — A three-tier framework governed every URL — preserve, evaluate, or archive. High-value pages were mapped to their closest new destination; roughly 90 technology pages were handled through HubSpot wildcard redirects; the updated sitemap went to Google Search Console at launch.


  5. HubSpot CMS Build — A modular HubSpot theme with reusable templates for website pages, case studies, and blog content — assembled from governed components like hero banners, service cards, testimonials, and calls to action, so marketing can publish without engineering.


  6. Conversion & Inbound Optimization — Strategic internal linking across service, process, and case-study pages; CTAs and forms throughout; structured data and analytics configured to turn organic visibility into qualified pipeline.

The Solution

A Governed HubSpot Platform, Engineered Like Software

HALO built the Mojo Trek site to be safe and scalable for marketers and developers alike — a HubSpot CMS treated as a product, with governance, reuse, and a migration architecture underneath the design.

  • Capability

    Modular HubSpot CMS

    Three-tier redirect framework

    Six-page architecture

    Reusable component library

    Conversion-first structure

    Repositioned narrative

  • Impact

    Marketing publishes and edits pages independently — routine updates no longer wait on a developer.

    Years of search equity are preserved; high-value pages resolve to their closest new home instead of defaulting to the homepage.

    162 URLs across five content areas collapse into one clear story — what Mojo Trek does, how it works, and the proof.

    Pages, case studies, and posts assemble from governed modules — consistent design, faster publishing, no rebuilds.

    Internal linking, CTAs, and structured data turn organic traffic into qualified conversations.

    The brand now reads as a software delivery partner — accountable for outcomes, not staffing by the hour.

From a Staffing-Era Site to a Market-Ready Delivery Platform

From a Staffing-Era Site to a Market-Ready Delivery Platform

A clear, current positioning

The site now presents Mojo Trek as a nearshore software delivery partner — greenfield builds, modernization, and technical-debt reduction — not a staffing vendor.

Search equity preserved through cutover

Every high-value URL was mapped before any page was unpublished; bulk technology and capability pages were redirected by rule rather than retired blind.

A HubSpot CMS the team runs independently

Marketing assembles and ships pages from a governed component library, with no developer required for routine work.

A platform built to scale

Reusable templates for pages, case studies, and blog content give the team room to grow without re-engineering the site.

From a Staffing-Era Site to a Market-Ready Delivery Platform

A clear, current positioning

The site now presents Mojo Trek as a nearshore software delivery partner — greenfield builds, modernization, and technical-debt reduction — not a staffing vendor.

Search equity preserved through cutover

Every high-value URL was mapped before any page was unpublished; bulk technology and capability pages were redirected by rule rather than retired blind.

A HubSpot CMS the team runs independently

Marketing assembles and ships pages from a governed component library, with no developer required for routine work.

A platform built to scale

Reusable templates for pages, case studies, and blog content give the team room to grow without re-engineering the site.

Why It Matters

A Rebrand Is a Migration Problem in Disguise

For companies repositioning a brand
The risk in a rebrand is rarely the new look — it's everything underneath it. Search equity, content debt, and URL structure decide whether a repositioning compounds years of authority or quietly resets it. That is a systems decision, not a design one.

For HubSpot users
Most agencies treat HubSpot CMS as a page builder. HALO treats it as a product engineering platform — modular themes, version-controlled components, a governed redirect architecture, and structured data — turning HubSpot development into a durable layer in the stack rather than a place to park a brochure.