Ask Yoast: old static website, move to WordPress?

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[Music] hey Richard milstein ah my website was created ten years ago in HTML it needs a major SEO update hand and has other issues I think it would be better to start over using WordPress what do you think well you get plus points for using WordPress of course no questions asked also if your website was created 10 years ago and not much has happened to it since then and you really think about okay what will i do once i recreate it will i not do anything with it again for 10 years or will I keep updating it if you want to keep updating it then yes you should really go for WordPress because that makes out an awful lot easier of course with WordPress you also get us SEO and a lot of other advantages of things that you don't have to build that will work automatically for you so you actually should probably do that the funny thing is the output from WordPress will still be HTML so you could probably get your theme of your site to look like your old side very easily if you just hire someone to copy that into a wordpress theme and maybe do some optimizations as they do that so it could be a very simple job on up work or some other rental site where you go just go in and say hey I once saw I want you to change this theme to a wordpress theme and then put my content in it that could be a very simple job for someone and might save you an awful lot of time good luck Oh [Music]