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SEO, GEO, and AEO in Hillsboro is the work of getting a Hillsboro business found in Google's map, in the results under it, and in the AI answer, for the searches its customers run. I do it from Portland, half an hour west at the end of the Blue Line, with a page for every service and area you cover, and published pricing from $425 a month. Below: Hillsboro's searches by trade, who holds the map and the results today, and the plan.
Numbers pulled 21 September 2026 · Hillsboro, OR and the metro
Roofing hillsboro is a difficulty of zero. So is roofing hillsboro oregon, and so is plumber hillsboro oregon. Electrician hillsboro is a two. These are small searches and almost nobody has written a page for them, which is the opposite of the problem most cities have.
There is a second thing happening here, and it is the more interesting one. Search plumber hillsboro and Google returns a plumber in Hillsboro, Wisconsin at sixth, a construction company in Hillsboro, Texas at seventh, and a Better Business Bureau listing from Hillsboro, Missouri at eighth. Search electrician hillsboro and it returns Missouri and Texas again. Google is not certain which Hillsboro the searcher means, so it hedges across four states. A page that says Hillsboro, Oregon in the title, in the heading, and in the text settles that question for it, and settling it is most of the work.
This page is what I would do for a business in Hillsboro and the rest of the west side: the searches, the three places you have to show up, and what each of them looks like today. Every figure comes from Ahrefs on the date below.
02section.searches
What people in Hillsboro type, how often each month, and what a business pays Google for one click on it. The numbers are small. The difficulty is smaller.
| search | per month | per click | note |
|---|---|---|---|
| things to do in hillsboro oregon | 300 | $0.25 | difficulty 5 |
| plumber hillsboro | 200 | $25 | the priciest click, and it returns three other states |
| electrician hillsboro oregon | 150 | $14 | |
| roofing hillsboro | 150 | $9 | difficulty 0 |
| electrician hillsboro | 100 | $14 | difficulty 2 |
| urgent care hillsboro oregon | 100 | $0.80 | |
| roofing hillsboro oregon | 90 | $9 | difficulty 0 |
| plumber hillsboro oregon | 80 | $0.00 | difficulty 0, and no advertiser is bidding |
| dentist hillsboro oregon | 50 | $3 | |
| hvac hillsboro oregon | 30 | $18 | difficulty 19 |
Ahrefs, US, September 2026. Volume is monthly searches. CPC is what advertisers pay per click today. Several more Hillsboro searches exist with volume too small or no advertiser data to be worth a row: gutter cleaning, restaurants, roofers, and painters, all between 20 and 50 a month. General contractor and kitchen remodel return no Hillsboro volume at all, so that work comes from the Beaverton and Portland pages instead. The searches without "oregon" on them carry more volume and more confusion, which is the tension this page is written around.
03section.places
The map, the results under it, and the answer an AI gives when someone asks it instead of Google. Three different competitions, and in Hillsboro the first one is reachable.
Three businesses per search, chosen from the Google Business Profile. The roofing row is the one to look at. Hillsboro Roofing Company holds first place on twenty-three reviews, ahead of JLV Construction on 246. Twenty-three. The name matches the search, the profile is complete, and that is enough to sit above a company with ten times the reviews. Electrician is the opposite picture and worth knowing before you start: Beaver Electric, Mr. Electric, and Dickinson hold it on 597, 431, and 505 reviews, so that pack is settled and the organic results underneath are the way in.
plumber hillsboro M T Dunn · All Pro · Hillsboro Plumbing
roofing hillsboro oregon Hillsboro Roofing · JLV · NC Roofing
electrician hillsboro Beaver · Mr. Electric · Dickinson
the three-pack for each search, from snapshots taken August 19, August 5, and June 15, 2026; worth checking live before you act on the oldest
A thread on r/hillsboro ranks first for plumber and Yelp takes second, which is the usual shape. Underneath it gets strange. The sixth result is a Facebook page for a plumber in Hillsboro, Wisconsin, the seventh is a construction company in Hillsboro, Texas, and the eighth is a Better Business Bureau listing from Hillsboro, Missouri. On electrician, Missouri and Texas appear again. Half of the first page is not in this state. The companies that do rank here are small: the plumber at third and the two electricians at second and fifth have almost nothing behind them by the measure that usually decides a ranking. They are there because they are in Hillsboro, Oregon and they said so.
plumber r/hillsboro · Yelp · M T Dunn · D&F · SKS
then Wisconsin, Texas and Missouri
roofing Orion NW · Yelp · Mighty Dog · Bliss · Roof Life
electrician Yelp · RK Electric · Angi · the Chamber
the first results under the map on each search, September 2026
ChatGPT does not read the map. It reads the review aggregators, the CCB license record, the BBB profile, and the company's own website, then names who it can verify. Gemini reads the Google Business Profile and tends to name the map. I have captured both for six trades in Portland, and the same pattern applies here with the same complication as the search results: an engine has to work out which Hillsboro you are in. A CCB number resolves it instantly, because the record is an Oregon record. That makes the license number in text worth more in this city than in most of the others. None of the Hillsboro searches showed an AI Overview in the snapshots.
ChatGPT reads Birdeye · Expertise · BBB · CCB · your site
Gemini reads the Google Business Profile
No AI Overview on any of the three searches above
the sources each engine read in the Portland captures, and what the Hillsboro snapshots showed
04section.trades
Each trade page carries its own searches and its own plan. The Portland numbers on them are the worked example; the Hillsboro rows above are the ones that apply to you.
Roofing SEO in Portland that fills the schedule without buying clicks.
Plumber SEO in Portland that keeps the phone ringing after five.
Electrician SEO in Portland that wins the panel, the charger, and the emergency call.
Gutter cleaning SEO in Portland that fills the fall calendar.
HVAC SEO in Portland that wins the first cold night of the year.
Holiday light SEO in Portland that fills November before October starts.
Painting contractor SEO in Portland that fills both seasons.
General contractor SEO in Portland, built on the jobs you want.
05section.areas
Hillsboro and the rest of the west side, and the neighborhoods to name in the text of a page so an engine can match a search to the part of town it came from.
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06section.pricing
The consultation is free. I come back with the scope of the project and what I would recommend, and the pricing is published: three monthly plans, with the website included on Growth and Superior, and three website builds at a one-time price. You can stop after any step.
The same work at the same standard on every plan; the tiers differ in how much of it you get each month. Local is month to month. Growth and Superior include the website and run six months minimum. Most results start to show after three to six months; the first months lay the foundation: the site, the profile, the citations, and the pages.
Local SEO
$425/month
Show up in the map pack and get found in your service area.
Month-to-month. 30 days notice to cancel.
Growth SEO
$995/month
More pages, more posts, up to three locations, and the website rebuilt first.
Six months minimum, then month to month.
Superior SEO
$1,995/month
The most pages and posts, every service covered in depth, regional or national reach.
Six months minimum, then month to month.
Not seeing an option you like? Let's talk.
More or less than the plans above, or a mix of the two. Tell me what you are looking for and I come back with a price.
form.consultation
Six fields, under two minutes. I reply within one business day with the scope and what I would recommend.
07section.faq
The same as anywhere I work, and the prices are on the pricing page: Local SEO at $425 a month, Growth at $995, and Superior at $1,995, with the website included and built first on Growth and Superior. For a Hillsboro trade the Local plan is almost always the fit, because the searches are small and the difficulty is close to zero.
Faster than most places I work. Roofing hillsboro and plumber hillsboro oregon sit at a difficulty of zero and electrician hillsboro at a two, and the sites holding those spots have almost nothing behind them. A page written properly can rank inside the first three months. The map moves on the profile work, usually inside two.
Because there are Hillsboros in Texas, Missouri, Kansas, and Wisconsin, and Google is not sure which one the searcher means. It hedges by showing several. Put Hillsboro, Oregon in your title, your heading, and your text, and add the surrounding towns, and you stop being one of the ambiguous results and start being the obvious one.
Look at the click price rather than the volume. Plumber hillsboro is 200 searches a month at $25 a click, which is $5,000 of advertising a month for one search the top three get for nothing, in a market where the difficulty is near zero. Small and winnable beats large and contested when you are one business.
Both, deliberately. The searches without "oregon" carry more volume, so the page has to rank for those, and the ones with it are how you prove which Hillsboro you are. Use the full name in the title and the first line, then the short form the way customers type it through the rest of the page.
For roofing and plumbing, yes. The company holding first place for roofing has twenty-three reviews. For electrician it is harder, because the three holding it have between 431 and 597, so there the organic results under the map are the faster route.