RossMitchell

Create a category say “feedback”.
Create a Post in category feedback, have it say something like this:
Presently the category heirachy is:

Dogs
  German shepherds
  Other breeds
Cats
  Tabby
  Persian
Everything else

If you would like to add additional categories or change this arrangement then please reply to this post.

Then give this category its own menu entry, and wait for the requests to come in.

Your scheme is concise and direct but just a little too simple to do everything you are looking for. For instance what if one of the tags is part of a word, you will break it out and link it, so if your tag is “book” it will put a link in “bookkeeper”, and it can be even worse like “own” and “town”.
The only solution that will really work is to parse the text, handling whole words and scanning for html (even within words?). It will need to track when it is inside and outside html, especially links.
Is there an easier way ? Like getting the authors to link the tags.

It would help us help you if you included a link to your website.

The easiest and best way to fiddle with CSS is in the customizer, your changes are made live.

Well it depends.
What extra abilities do you need ? When I was setting up a woocommerce store, I started with a theme called “storefront” that gave me woo already integrated.

Yes you will find many suitable free themes.
Search the theme archive here, be sure to include responsive and other categories as suit your needs.
Some paid themes have extensive customize options in their theme > options pages and tabs, free themes don’t do this so much. Instead you are more likely to use the customizer especially additional CSS and also plugins to customise, more extensive customization may need you to create a child theme at which point you can customize your “functions.php” and also page templates. Learning these customizing skills will be very rewarding.

Yes it is possible.
You only need do a little bit more than you expected, (database + config).
If the present websites are independent then the html upgraded to WP will be too.

– Archive the old HTML site files, you will probably want to stripmine them for content. Delete the files from the webserver.
– Copy a fresh set of WordPress files into the same directory.
– Create a new database and database user + password, configure these into the wp-config.php of the new site.
– Run the install script.

The details are in the install instructions:
http://codex.wordpress.org/Installing_WordPress

It looks like the webserver is not correctly configured, you will need to talk to your web hosting technical support to fix this.

On the other hand if you set the WordPress timezone to 0 (zero) it will show your updates with the correct time. This is not a very good solution but may be necessary.

What does your google webmaster control panel tell you ? If you don’t use this then you must get it:
https://www.google.com/webmasters/connect

This is your present robots.txt

User-agent: *
Disallow:

This is one I use normally:

User-agent: *
Disallow: /wp-admin/

Please try this and see if it makes a difference.