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Being a fulltime web developer with over 500+ sites in the past 12+ years, I can tell you from experience that we've used/seen/fixed/tried all these options that people have discussed and we've come back to the oldie & goldie each time in Wordpress.

Here's a couple quick reasons:

1. It has a TON of man hours into developing a platform that isn't perfect, but works better than 99.99% of all people/companies could put together.

2. It is proven and it WORKS solid.

3. There are tons of plugins that make your site do what you'd like it to do. Don't have one with a function that you are wanting? Either code the functionality directly into the site or build your own plugin and have it do exactly what you'd like.

4. It's extremely flexible to work with to get it to do/integrate with whatever you'd like.

5. It's easy to find developers to work on it since there are a lot of WP developers out there that can help you out. Some of these other platforms, if your developer leaves you, then you're sunk.

Those are just 5 quick reasons why we recommend WP and keep coming back to it. I can't even begin to tell you the number of clients that we've gotten because their developer recommended a solution or custom built them a platform, then the developer went out of business, got lost on a boat in the middle of the sea, or just completely quit returning phone calls and they left the customer out to die. Then the client calls us and has to make another decent investment for us to build them something brand new from scratch on WP. The most recent, was with a client who had their custom built platform for 3 months and the developer disappeared.

Sorry to say but these stories happen all the time. That's why we're not cheap, but we take amazing care of our clients day & night (including sending them $100 of cookies like we did for a client yesterday. LOL!)

Hope this helps. Let me know if you have any other questions.

Hi everyone,

First question posted on here. I have spent a lot time this week going through videos and discussions since I signed up here earlier this week.

We're just starting in a particular niche that is powerful (home-based businesses), but EXTREMELY spammy with all the at-home opportunities from stuffing envelopes, to MLM, etc. Then there's the other side which is not as spammy, but just not an overall good business model with the in-home Tupperware, candle, and makeup party sales companies.

The people that we help and serve are just people who want to start up a part-time or full-time home-based business doing what they love. Maybe it's a dad who loves golf and would like to start a golf store on Ebay or a lady who is great at making stuff and wants to open an Etsy shop or start selling her goods at craft fairs.

Our program is more about teaching them how to start a real home-based business that can either earn them a profit either part-time or fulltime while also doing what they love and spending time with their family.

My biggest question right now as we begin the Keyword Research and SEO process part of this, is how do we go about doing the keyword research for this while also dealing with a spammy niche? All the research I've been doing for home-based businesses comes back to all the ugly examples I gave above and that isn't the type of people that we're a good fit for.

I appreciate all your help and guidance in advance. Been doing web development for 10+ years but finally taking the tiger by the throat and actually learning the SEO/SEM piece myself.