Web Design & SEO in Portland, Oregon

Portland, Oregon runs on small, independent businesses, and its customers have strong opinions about them. The city's neighborhoods, from Alberta and Mississippi on the north side through Hawthorne, Division and Sellwood in the southeast to the Pearl and Nob Hill west of the river, each have their own restaurants, shops and service companies, and residents move between them deliberately. The Central Eastside holds makers and showrooms, Beaverton and Hillsboro to the west hold the tech and sportswear employers, and an hour down 99W the Dundee Hills and the rest of the Willamette Valley grow the Pinot that makes wine a serious part of the regional economy. Old housing stock and eight months of rain keep the trades busy.

Portland customers research more than most before they choose. The diner looking for a farm-to-table restaurant on Division reads the menu, the sourcing and the reviews before booking. The homeowner in a 1920s bungalow in Laurelhurst with a failed sewer line searches at night and calls the plumber whose site explains the problem in plain terms. The winery in Dundee sells most of its production to people who visited once and now buy from a phone in Seattle or Chicago. In every case the decision is made from the search result, the reviews and the website, and a business that looks generic or dated loses to one that looks like it belongs here.

A website built for a Portland business respects that scrutiny. It shows the specific work, the neighborhoods served and the values the owner actually holds, without the borrowed voice that Portland customers spot instantly. For restaurants, wine bars and shops it takes the reservation, the order or the online sale directly. For the trades and professional firms it ranks for the problem a customer is trying to solve and makes the call easy. Local SEO ties the site to the quadrants and suburbs where you actually work, so the map pack shows your name in Sellwood and not just downtown, and the search presence grows through every rainy season.

In Portland, Oregon we build for a wide range of the city's businesses: the farm-to-table restaurants and wine bars competing for the neighborhood table, the furniture and home goods stores selling online with local delivery and showroom pickup, the plumbers answering the emergency and repair call from the city's old houses, the accounting firms that want clients year-round rather than just at tax time, the fire extinguisher companies whose annual contracts are won on reputation, and the Dundee wineries shipping Pinot direct to customers who visited once. Our writing for this market covers all of those, and the same approach serves the electricians, dentists and retailers who share these customers.