Portland has no shortage of agencies, and most of them will put an account manager between you and whoever writes the code. We work the other way: you talk to the developer, the price is fixed before anything starts, and the site is coded by hand instead of assembled in a page builder. Typical small business project runs about $1,000.
Portland is a bigger, noisier market than the one next door. Winning here is less about being everywhere and more about being unmistakably the right answer for a specific job in a specific part of town.
Portland addresses carry a directional, N, NE, SE, SW, NW, and getting it inconsistent across your site and listings quietly muddies your location signals. We keep it uniform.
Lightweight pages with no builder overhead, so the site stays quick on mobile and cheap to run.
Real pages for the areas you actually work, Beaverton, Gresham, Hillsboro, Lake Oswego, Tigard, instead of one page claiming the whole metro.
Oregon contractors need their CCB number visible in advertising. We build it into the site properly rather than tucking it in a footer nobody reads.
Tap-to-call, short forms, obvious next steps. The site is measured by the phone ringing.
Your domain, your hosting, your content. Nothing locked to a platform you cannot leave.
Yes, and it is a short drive. A large share of the metro economy already moves across the river in both directions. What matters for your website is whether it ranks and converts for Portland customers, which is a function of how it is built and structured, not the zip code of the person who built it.
Yes. Oregon's Construction Contractors Board requires your license number on your advertising, and its guidance specifically directs contractors to display it on websites and online listings alongside business cards, signs and estimates. The format is straightforward, CCB #123456. Advertising before your number is issued can carry civil penalties of up to $5,000 per violation, so confirm your current status with the CCB directly. We are web designers, not your attorney.
A typical small business project is about $1,000, single-page sites start under $500, and anything larger gets priced after a short call. Portland agency quotes for comparable work frequently land several times higher, and the gap is mostly overhead, project managers, account leads, downtown office space. None of that changes what gets built, so we do not carry it.
In the organic results, yes, relevance and content quality carry far more weight there than physical distance. The Map Pack is a different story, because proximity to the searcher is one of its strongest inputs, and a Washington address will struggle inside Portland proper. Most cross-river businesses do best treating the Map Pack as a Clark County play and Portland as an organic and paid play.
Fix it if the foundation is sound, decent structure, reasonable speed, content worth keeping, because an existing site carries ranking history and links that a new one starts without, and throwing that away is a real cost people underestimate. Rebuild when the site is built on a bloated page builder, cannot be made fast, or is structured so badly that every fix fights the platform. We will look at what you have and tell you honestly which one you are, including when the answer is that you do not need us yet.