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Oregon names Google and Yelp in its advertising rule

Oregon has the most explicitly digital contractor advertising requirement of any market on this site. Every licensed contractor must display the CCB number on every contract, estimate, invoice and advertisement, in the format CCB followed by the number. Guidance extends that specifically to websites and online listings, naming Google, Yelp, Craigslist, Houzz and Angi — a contractor whose online advertising omits the number is not in compliance.

The rule is prescriptive enough to have named exceptions, which tells you how seriously it is meant. The number is encouraged but not required on promotional items where including it is impractical — pens, pencils, bug deflectors, refrigerator magnets — and not required on uniforms for sports teams a construction business sponsors.

For local SEO this is unusually convenient. A requirement that explicitly covers third-party listings is also a checklist for a citation audit, because every profile either carries CCB and your number or it does not.

Audit every listing, because the rule already tells you which ones

Work through the platforms the guidance names — your Google Business Profile, Yelp, Houzz, Angi — plus every other directory carrying your business, and confirm the CCB number is present and formatted correctly. This is the rare case where a compliance checklist and a citation audit are the same task, and the profiles that fail are reliably the ones with an old phone number or a stale address as well.

Format matters. The guidance describes it as CCB followed by the license number, so a bare number is weaker than the labeled version, and consistency across listings is worth more than getting it right in one place.

The Construction Contractors Board publishes a license lookup, which makes the number verifiable rather than promotional. In a state where customers are accustomed to seeing CCB numbers in contractor advertising, the absence of one from your Google profile is conspicuous in a way it would not be elsewhere.

Sources: Oregon Construction Contractors Board — contractor tools; Oregon Construction Contractors Board — CCB license. Regulatory detail is provided for orientation and is not legal advice.