You have to be careful in how you word things. Remember this is the newbie section. Some noobs might think you just told them to drop their Godaddy domain and move their website to Wordpress.com. A CMS is not going to determine whether you make it in business or not... Come on... lettuce be cereal...
JMFEJG, the CMS (Content Management System) doesn't matter, wordpress is just the most popular one at the moment, but if you don't know what you are doing, it's still will seem like a nightmare to setup. Since wordpress is one of the most popular CMSes at the time, it's also the target of hackers and spammers.
A perfect example is why PCs have more viruses than Macs, cause the vast majority of people use PCs more - and it's easier to attack. I've personally moved away from database driven CMSes, but I doubt a majority of the industry will. I just see the curve coming for when a day when wordpress will become a hinderance.
There could be a thousand reasons why you aren't ranking, but first let me show you how it looks on Chrome:
Possible Reason #1 - Google has stated they use Chrome data from users to determine how people interact on a website. Your website looks like shit in Chrome.
Possible Reason #2 - You had duplicate content - meaning you were too lazy to write your own content and had the bright idea of copying and pasting other content - a No-No. You need to write your own unique content 300 to 2000 words, with images, videos, and linking to other pages within your website AND outside your website.
Possible Reason #3 - You have no serious or good backlinks.
Possible Reason #4 - You are on a compromised CMS and Google doesn't want to take the chance of sending their visitor to your site to get infected - This is far fetched.
Possible Reason #5 - You are in a bad neighborhood. Meaning your website resides on a server with spammers or other not so good neighbors. This is likely the case if you are on a shared solution. Godaddy hosting sucks by the way - you're better off with LiquidWeb.com or a serious professional hosting. Hostgator is on it's way down, so don't consider them.
Possible Reason #6 - You were in the honeymoon stage with Google, and were getting good results, but once you slipped - server went down for an hour or so for example, they sandboxed you until you can prove you are good enough to be in their rankings.
Conclusion:
Your site looks like shit, had no original content, on a shitty server. What reason would Google have to send you visitors? Just because you want them?
Like seriously, why would they send you visitors when you have no unique proposition for them? You have duplicate content, why not send it to the person who originally wrote that content instead of a brand new domain?
You sound like you have no backlinks, and we already know you are on a shitty hosting - And I posted the above screenshot of how your site looks on Chrome - which Google has admitted to using that data to determine "stuff".
Most of all though, and perhaps one of the biggest points of the session was that
Google definitely uses Chrome user data and can track every click within it. - (Source -
Ask the Ex-Googlers Anything Panel)
Now that you've removed the duplicate content, you now have to fix the other problems and sit back and wait for Google to reconsider your site. I personally would start building backlinks, interacting socially, and all that fun stuff that SEOers love doing to get rankings. Welcome to SEO aka Google Hell.
