A Portland SEO Company Serving Oregon & the Pacific Northwest
We help businesses in Portland, Beaverton, Gresham, Vancouver, and across the Pacific Northwest improve search visibility and generate more qualified traffic. From local SEO and technical fixes to content strategy and AI search, we focus on what will actually move the needle and tell you when something isn’t worth paying for.
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Why Choose Our Portland SEO Team?
SLIDEFACTORY is a 5-star rated, Semrush certified SEO company offering full-service optimization and web development for Oregon businesses of all sizes. As a certified Semrush Agency Partner, our team handles everything from local search optimization and keyword mapping to website redesigns, structured data, and technical fixes. If you are still comparing agencies, our guide to choosing a Portland web design company covers the questions worth asking anyone, including us. Whether you’re targeting specific neighborhoods or reaching new audiences across the region, we’ll help you rise in rankings, attract the right traffic, and convert leads into loyal customers.
How much does SEO cost in Portland?
SLIDEFACTORY is an SEO company on SE Belmont. We do local SEO for businesses in Portland and across the metro, from Beaverton, Hillsboro, Sherwood and Gresham to Vancouver, Washington.
Cost is usually the first question, so it goes first here. Most people who call us have already spent money somewhere, often on a cheap build or a bargain SEO package that went sideways, so “what does this cost” usually means “what will this cost me this time.” We do not publish flat rates for full programs, because scope varies too much between a five-page service business and a two-hundred-page ecommerce catalog for a flat rate to be honest. Engagements start at $880 a month for a basic program that starts with an SEO and site audit; where it goes from there depends on what the audit finds.
Basic SEO Engagement
Start with the audit. Build from what we find.
- Initial SEO and site audit
- Clear priorities and recommended next steps
- Scope based on the audit findings
- Ongoing support can grow from there
GEO Program
The AI-answer layer on its own, for businesses whose SEO is already handled.
- AI Visibility Audit included
- Schema and entity consistency maintained
- Answer-first content built to be quoted
- Citation and AI-referral tracking
Full SEO Program
Technical, local, content, and GEO, weighted to what you need.
- Scope set by what your site actually needs
- No twelve-month lock-in to start
- The scoping call costs nothing
SEO for Oregon Businesses, Run from Portland
Our work starts in Portland and extends into the Oregon communities surrounding it. Our Portland SEO services focus on local SEO, helping small businesses improve their visibility in Google, local Maps listings, and AI search results through our generative engine optimization service. For AI projects beyond search, our Portland AI team builds the tools themselves.
We work with businesses in Portland and across the Oregon side of the metro, including Beaverton, Hillsboro, Sherwood, and Gresham. We also work across the river in Vancouver, Washington. We plan and optimize around how people search across the metro and the wider Pacific Northwest.
We also design and build SEO-focused websites, including the performance and mobile work needed from the start.
What we'll talk you out of
We answer questions on the first call, for free, and we’ll tell you when the fix is simple enough to handle yourself. That probably costs us some work, but it’s also why so much of our business comes from referrals.
In a market where people are going to look you up before they call, being able to back up what you say matters more than polished sales copy. Sometimes the best SEO work is small, and it doesn’t need a retainer.
Google Business Profile
We’ll help you get set up, tell you exactly what to change, and you can handle the updates yourself in an afternoon.
Rankings that fell off a cliff
Rankings that fell off a cliff after a migration usually need a redirect map, not a twelve-month contract.
Traffic Down, Leads Steady
Lower traffic is fine if leads hold steady. AI answers reduce clicks, and chasing them may not be worth it.
Why did my traffic drop when nothing on my site changed?
For a lot of Portland businesses, the answer is that search itself changed.
On our own site, 266 of the 391 keywords we rank for, about 68 percent, now trigger a Google AI Overview. More searches are being answered directly on Google before someone ever reaches an organic result, which means some of the traffic that used to reach a website simply disappears.
That is why we look beyond traffic alone. The goal is to understand which searches still drive calls, leads, and revenue, then focus your SEO work on the traffic that actually matters.
A client’s visibility in AI answers
Numbers from one client’s content hub, pulled from Semrush this month.
AI mentions
Across ChatGPT, Google AI Overviews, AI Mode and Gemini.
Pages cited
Pages of its content cited in AI answers.
Organic visits a month
From 19.6K ranking keywords.
What GEO can and can’t show yet
AI search is changing how people find businesses, but generative engine optimization is still early. We can improve how a business appears in AI-generated answers, but nobody has fully solved attribution from a specific citation to a specific customer.
That is why we focus on what we can actually measure. Our own site is cited in Google AI Overviews, and we track referral traffic from ChatGPT, Claude, Copilot, and Gemini. For clients, the goal is the same: make the business easier for AI systems to understand and cite, then measure whether those citations are producing meaningful traffic and leads.
What's actually in an SEO engagement here?
Four kinds of work, weighted differently depending on what the free scoping call finds.
Technical
Crawlability, page speed, structured data, and fixing whatever the last migration broke. We are a development shop first, so template-level fixes happen in-house instead of stalling in a hand-off.
Local SEO
Google Business Profile, consistent listings, and a review cadence that does not depend on begging. For metro service businesses this is often where the fastest gains are: a specialist practice we work on in another metro holds position one for five of its money terms.
Content
Pages that answer the questions your buyers actually ask, in plain language. No word-count filler; a page that behaves like a good sales call outranks one that behaves like a brochure.
GEO
The schema, entity, and citation work that makes your business quotable by AI systems. Included in every engagement, because search where AI answers first is not a separate channel anymore.
How we work on search and AI visibility
Demand: We start in your Search Console data and keyword research. We look at what people search for, which questions they ask and which alternatives they compare before deciding what content to change.
Relevance: Each meaningful buying intent needs the right destination. We map queries to existing pages, identify gaps and avoid asking one page to answer unrelated questions.
Evidence: Claims are easier to trust when the site shows the projects, results or original data behind them. We identify proof you can publish and place it where a visitor needs it.
Authority: We review relevant links, mentions, reviews, citations and directory listings. The work is to improve how other sources describe and point to the business.
Entity: Your company name, people, services and locations should be described consistently across the site and other public profiles. We correct gaps and contradictions that make the business harder to identify.
Distribution: We look at where the work can appear in organic search, Maps and AI-generated answers, then shape pages and profiles for the channels relevant to your buyers.
Conversion: A visit has to lead somewhere useful. We review the page’s offer, proof, navigation and contact path so qualified visitors can take the next step.
Measurement: We report in your own Search Console and Analytics. We track visibility, AI citations where observable, visits and leads alongside rankings, then use the results to decide what to do next.
Project Gallery
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Majesty Golf
Since 1971, Majesty Golf has been and industry leader in the creation of golf equipment made by the finest Japanese craftsmen. When faced with a worldwide site redesign, SLIDEFACTORY partnered with Majesty and multiple sister agencies to bring the brand to life.
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Adrenaline WorldWide
A Social community for extreme martial artists, Adrenaline Worldwide was created to bring together extreme martial arts athletes, trickers, and performers from around the world into a community with others that share the same aspirations and live off pure adrenaline.
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BatchGeo
Continued support, partnership, and maintenance of the fastest way to create Google maps from spreadsheets.
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Casl
A trading platform allowing users to invest in crypto currencies. We worked alongside the client to develop a user portal that allowed individuals to log-in and view the current status of their accounts.
How long before SEO shows results?
Honest ranges, since this is the other question every first call asks. Anyone quoting days is describing something else.
Weeks, not months
Technical fixes (redirects, schema, speed, crawl problems) usually show up in Search Console within a few weeks.
A similar window
Local visibility work on a neglected Google Business Profile can move in about the same time.
Two to four months
Schema and entity fixes surface quickly, but meaningful AI citation growth takes longer.
Months of consistent work
A competitive term worth having takes sustained content and authority work. There is no shortcut worth buying.
How we report
Reporting is scored against leads, not sessions. Session counts are inflated by bots (we have watched our own analytics claim Singapore as a top city) so we track form submissions and phone calls, and we are straight with you when a number is noise. We are a Semrush Agency Partner and run the same tooling on our own site that we run on yours.
We report monthly against the metric that matters, and if three months in nothing is moving we would rather have the uncomfortable conversation than send another dashboard. You will never need to decode a report to figure out whether it is working. The broader campaign side (paid search, content strategy, analytics) lives with our digital marketing team.
Who do you actually work with?
The recognisable name on our local book is Dick Hannah, the dealership group across the river in Vancouver. The rest of the book is startups and small companies around the PDX metro, which is the honest shape of most Portland agencies’ client lists, whatever their websites imply.
We have been building software and websites here since 2018. The office is at 4520 SE Belmont St, Suite 300, in Portland, Oregon, upstairs from the Horse Brass. You will also find us around the local tech circuit: the Portland AI meetups, Portland Startup Week, and the Gresham Area Chamber of Commerce, where we are members. We mention that because this market does not hire from case studies; it hires from referrals and people it has met. Ask around about us. That is how most of our clients got here.
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Frequently Asked Questions
How much does SEO cost in Portland?
Scoped per engagement rather than flat-rated. Basic SEO engagements start at $880 a month. Our AI visibility audit starts at $1,800 one-time; standalone GEO programs start at $2,300/month, with most between $2,300 and $4,000. Full SEO programs are quoted after a free scoping call, and if a single fix would solve your problem, we’ll say so instead of quoting a program.
Do I need a monthly SEO retainer?
Not always. Redirect problems after a migration, a miscategorized Google Business Profile, or a broken template are one-time fixes. Retainers make sense when you’re competing for rankings that need ongoing content, technical upkeep, and authority building. We’ll tell you which situation you’re in on the first call, free.
Why did my traffic drop if my rankings look fine?
Very likely AI Overviews. 68% of the keywords our own site ranks for now trigger a Google AI answer above the organic results, and when that answer covers the question, the click never happens. The fix is to become a source the AI cites. That’s generative engine optimization, and it’s included in every SEO engagement we run.
What is GEO, and is it an extra charge?
Generative engine optimization makes your business citable by AI systems (Google AI Overviews, ChatGPT, Perplexity) through schema, entity consistency, and answer-first content. Many agencies price it as a $500–$1,000/month add-on. We include it in every SEO engagement; standalone GEO programs start at $2,300/month.
What areas do you serve?
Portland and the wider metro. In Oregon, that includes Beaverton, Hillsboro, Sherwood, and Gresham. Our client base extends across the river to Vancouver, Washington, where Dick Hannah is based. Remote engagements are normal.
Is my SEO problem actually a website problem?
About half the time, partly, yes. A slow template, a rebuild that shipped without redirects, or a site structure that buries the pages people search for: no amount of content work papers over those. We are a web design shop as well as an SEO one, so when the fix requires template changes or a rebuild, the same team does it. If you are weighing whether to fix or rebuild, our guide to choosing a Portland web design company covers the questions we would ask in your position, including the ones that would rule us out.
