Web Design, SEO & Marketing for Portland, OR Businesses
Web design, local SEO, AI SEO, and Google Ads for Portland, OR businesses. Hand-coded, sub-second sites and 27 years of SEO experience, from an agency right across the river.
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What it takes to win customers in Portland, OR
Portland is the biggest, most competitive market in Oregon, and it does not run on national chains. It runs on independents: the breweries, the food carts, the makers, the studios, the restaurants on Division and Alberta and Hawthorne, a city full of businesses that compete on identity. That is the opportunity and the trap. A templated, slow site quietly buries a business whose whole pitch is that it is not like everyone else, and a lot of Portland owners are running exactly that site.
Most of the agencies chasing Portland sit somewhere else and treat it as one undifferentiated metro, pointing a single campaign at the Pearl, the suburbs, and the east side all at once. They never learn the neighborhoods, never tune the work to a market that genuinely cares about who it buys from, and the rankings show it. We are not guessing about this city. We are based right across the Columbia in Southwest Washington, so the Portland metro is our backyard, not a pin on a map.
What we build is a fast, hand-coded site that loads in under a second and looks like yours and nobody else’s, local SEO that gets you into the Portland Map Pack for the searches that bring real customers, and structure that gets you cited by ChatGPT and Google AI Overviews while most of the city has not started. No long-term contract, senior people on the work, and reporting tied to real calls instead of a traffic chart.
Your agency is across the river, not across the country
Most of the agencies bidding on Portland work have never driven through it. We are based right across the Columbia in Southwest Washington, so this metro is genuinely our backyard, and we already build for Portland businesses today: Gnome’s Creations, a handmade bath and body maker, and Herb Stomp, an 11-year botanicals shop on NE Sandy, both run on storefronts we hand-coded. We know the difference between a business on Alberta and one in the Pearl or out in the suburbs, and we build for the neighborhood you actually serve instead of one flattened citywide campaign.
Based in Southwest Washington, minutes from the Portland metro. This is not a pin on a map for us.
A hand-coded site that looks like yours, the opposite of the templates that bury a Portland brand.
Most of the city is not structured for ChatGPT or AI Overviews yet. Early movers get cited.
What Portland Searches For, and Where the Openings Are
Real monthly volumes from the Semrush US database. Portland is the biggest market in Oregon, which means the metro-wide terms are a fight, and the neighborhood terms are the smart way in.
Neighborhood trades
A plumbing click costs about $48 metro-wide. The wedge is the neighborhood: win Sellwood or St. Johns first, then contest the metro.
Health & personal care
Patients here read reviews like restaurant critics. Profile quality and review velocity decide the booking.
The city that plans its fun
Food carts get their own search category here. Visitors and locals alike decide online before they head out.
The agency market
Portland businesses shop hard for marketing help. We compete in this exact market from 30 minutes up the Columbia.
The fun economy is the headline number: about 28,000 searches a month across things to do, restaurants, and food carts. Portland plans its evenings online, and the businesses that rank are the ones that get chosen.
For service businesses, the metro term is the expensive fight: plumbing clicks run about $48. Our approach starts a level down, with local SEO built neighborhood by neighborhood, where the competition thins out and the map pack is winnable in months instead of years.
This metro is also our backyard: we are 30 minutes up the Columbia, and we already run neighborhood-deep campaigns here. See the Portland chiropractor SEO page for exactly how deep a single-market campaign goes.
Search volumes: Semrush US database, July 2026.
Our Services for Portland Businesses
Four services that work together. Start with one or bundle them, each link goes to the full breakdown on our main service page.
Web Design in Portland
A fast, hand-coded Portland site that looks like yours and nobody else’s, the opposite of the templated builds that bury an independent brand.
What this includes
- Hand-coded from scratch, no WordPress, themes, or page builders
- Sub-second load times and 95 to 100 Google PageSpeed scores
- Mobile-first layouts with tappable calls and lead forms
- Schema, clean URLs, and SEO structure built in from day one
Local SEO in Portland
Getting your Portland business into the Map Pack for Multnomah County searches, tuned to the neighborhoods you actually serve instead of one blurred metro campaign.
What this includes
- Google Business Profile optimization and ongoing management
- City and service-area pages that compete in every market you serve
- Local citations, review strategy, and on-page optimization
- Tracking that ties rankings to the calls and forms they produce
AI SEO & GEO in Portland
AI search is wide open across Portland. We structure your business to be cited by ChatGPT and Google AI Overviews now, before the rest of the city catches on.
What this includes
- Content and schema structured to be quoted by AI assistants
- Entity and answer optimization across local, organic, and generative results
- The technical foundation AI crawlers reward: speed, structure, clarity
- Built on 27 years of search experience, applied to how people search now
PPC & Google Ads in Portland
Portland Google Ads with tight neighborhood targeting and call tracking, so a competitive metro still returns booked work and not just clicks. No long-term contract.
What this includes
- Google Ads and Local Services Ads built for your market
- Tightly themed campaigns that cut wasted spend
- Landing pages and call tracking wired to measure real ROI
- Transparent reporting and no long-term contracts
SEO and Web Design Results Behind Your Portland Project
Our client work spans local businesses and national brands. The sites and results below show the standard and the people behind your Portland project, from technical performance and design to local and AI search.
Built in Portland, Oregon
Portland businesses we build and market today: a handmade bath and body maker and an 11-year botanicals shop on NE Sandy, both running on custom storefronts we hand-coded for them.
Just north of Portland, Oregon
Clark County, WA clients from right across the Columbia, minutes from the Portland metro: contractors and local services we rank in the same media market your customers watch.
Newman Electric
481 phone leads + 152 website leads tracked in 2026
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Quality Master Roofing
0 to 100 organic visits in the first month live
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Priority Tree Service
ISA Certified Arborists, 5.0★ rated
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AvilaCo Drywall
Brand-new site, six leads in its first month live
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Legacy Seal & Striping
New-company build + 12 original service-area pages
View case studyWe Have Done This at Enterprise Scale
Before and alongside the local work, we ran SEO for national brands with millions riding on organic. Your Portland program receives the same research, technical care, and measurement behind these numbers.
FindLaw
FindLaw is the web’s biggest legal destination, a Thomson Reuters property that connects people to lawyers and legal information. The organic traffic we helped build there is valued at $49.5 million a year.
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LifeMD
LifeMD is a direct-to-patient telehealth company treating patients online across all 50 states. A rendering fix plus content architecture multiplied its organic visibility 100 times over in seven months.
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Credit Sesame
Credit Sesame gives millions of people free credit scores and monitoring. We built its organic traffic value past $5.5 million in the hardest category in SEO, competing against the credit bureaus themselves.
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iovation
iovation is a device-intelligence platform that banks and retailers use to stop fraud, later acquired by TransUnion. Its keyword footprint grew 51× across our multi-year engagement.
Read the case studyPortland SEO for Local Industries
We build for the businesses that drive the Multnomah County economy.
Food, Drink & Hospitality
Restaurants, breweries, carts, and cafes in a city that takes them seriously. Identity is everything, so the site has to carry it.
Makers, Studios & Creative
Designers, shops, and independent studios competing on craft. A templated site undercuts the whole pitch.
Home Service Contractors
Roofers, electricians, plumbers, and tree services across the metro. Service-area pages for every Portland neighborhood and a phone that rings.
Healthcare & Wellness
Clinics, dentists, and practitioners competing for patients who research and read reviews before they ever book.
Serving Portland and Greater Multnomah County
We build websites and run SEO for businesses throughout the Portland area. If your service area spans several communities, we target each one independently, and on your own site we build a page for every market you serve.
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Running a business somewhere else in Oregon? We build a dedicated page for every market we serve. Here is where else we work across the state.
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Portland, OR SEO and Web Design Questions
What Portland business owners ask us about web design, SEO, and getting found locally.
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