Website seo dropping ranking. Move to WordPress?

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My site was designed by myself back in 2010 using html and css, I was number 1 for main search phrases such as pc repair Cardiff and laptop repair Cardiff.

Since I've noticed a lot of my competitors have redesigned their sites completely and now scoring above me.

Previously the site wasn't mobile friendly and I did a bit of a hack job and it now redirects to a mobile friendly version of the site if it detects the screen size is tablet or mobile phone.

I'm concerned getting a new site up will possibly drop me off the first page for major search rankings. I know the site is now out of date and it would be a lot easier for me to manage in WordPress, just so concerned about seo getting worse as a result.
 
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mortals said:
Just noticed you are advertising website hosting & design :confused:

http://www.adeptpcrepair.co.uk/web_hosting_design_domains_cardiff.html
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That was a long time ago, the html file is still online but not linked to by any part of the site. I know my strengths and that got the axe a long time ago.

Will things like that still affect my site? I'm concerned how you managed to find it even though it doesn't exist anywhere on my current site.

I did put a wordpress site up within a folder and ended up with the template not functioning with the static front page the template gives (those nice sliding images). I will do a reinstall and see if I can find a nice template to work with.

I did toy with a different site, but i'd much rather just focus on this. Another site would need a different domain name and branding, plus when I answer the phone I always say the business name - this would concern people if it didn't tie up with who they were looking at.

Wordpress concerns me slightly only due to learning curve, but as someone has said, I can keep it within a folder, then redirect to it. Would google penalize this practice though?
 
I've reinstalled wordpress from scratch and still can't enable the front page in themes.

I can set a static page with my own content but all the features of the theme are missing. Probably being an idiot but I can't find an option anywhere other than to set my own static page instead of the theme's. Any pointers?
 
Brilliant, I was expecting to see the features (image sliders) etc without adding the content. I've now added. Intent and everything is showing as it should. I shall continue to work on it and once I have a "beta" I shall ask for some input.

Thank you everyone!
 
I know I've made myself to look incompetent in this thread, I am simply just unfamiliar with how the Web has developed since my site was made originally back in 2010.

I think I am getting to grips with WordPress and would much rather sort it myself if possible.
 
I shall look up using a cdn, thank you again for all of your advice. I do know someone else had used a "pirate" theme on WordPress some time back, nothing got hacked as such but his bandwidth usage shot through the roof.

Is the free version of Wordfence sufficient or should I purchase?
 
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