Any web devs who started their own website building and SEO company for small businesses? Need your valuable advice on what platform to use and depending on use cases - wix, squarespace, any others or custom (angular/react).

A web dev would not use Wix.

We are the people who make stuff as wix :P

You came to the right place to ask! I just removed 3000+ 'seo' messages last week from this platform.

This platform is full of seo engineers but they're not really our friends:

https://devrant.com/rants/11551570/

https://devrant.com/rants/11555191/

https://devrant.com/rants/11553790/

I have no idea how to do site marketing. Wish I knew. Wherever you publish a site these days is considered spam. Even when just show casing. I had a cool plugin that I wanted to show people, everywhere flagged as spam. I don't get it, it was a legit good plugin and no profit stuff behind it. Bastards. Internet is a bit ruined by spammers.

I'm a web dev myself (angular and Java Soring) but looking to start my own business where I build websites for small businesses and help them with SEO as well.

@newandroidfan My sites have moved from platform to platform many times. Now I've settled on WordPress. For blogs, for companies, and indeed for any sites - for me it is the best. I have my own 3 sites on WordPress, and I do the same for clients.

@retoor Don't publish links to spam rants in normal rants. In this way, without even realizing it, you help spam content get into the Google index. Googlebot will go to this rant, see the link, follow it and possibly index it. But... there is also a site map, where Googlebot also actively follows links... In general, it's a vicious circle, and you can't do without the noindex tag here... I just thought that you are doing a hell of a job, for free... and which in fact does not prevent you from continuing to spam here. After all, after publishing, the spammer will copy the link to the rant into the report. The rant is always available via this link, even if it is hidden from the general list with minuses. There is no noindex tag on the rant. Google indexes minus-voted rants. Congratulations, you wasted a lot of time...😒