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You should make the grey container for the text in the slider bigger by extending it more to the left or increase the size of the image. For eg.
 
http://desmond.imageshack.us/Himg140/scaled.php?server=140&filename=45422235.png&res=medium
 
Hope it helps!

Why don't you make the bird a black bird to avoid looking like Twitter, that way it will be more business like.
 
The small links at the top when you go to another page are horrible and don't work.
 
There are a few padding / alignment issues. The menu red focus text is bad. The images are quite boring and very stock. There is some grey text on grey backgound which is hard to see. But apart from that I like it

Wordpress sites rarely validate.
 
Check out the validation for the default theme that comes pre-installed with Wordpress!

Site looks OK.
 
Agree with comments about the bird logo. What I suggest is strengthening your brand by tweaking your colour scheme so it fits whatever logo you choose.
 
Also for us the photos under your slider don't really encourage clicking them. Have you tried swapping them out with words instead?
 
Eg:
 
Network | Impress | Tips | Present | Win ...
 
Also those stock photos seem a little generic/bland. This is always the downside to using what I'm guessing is stock photography. One tip for spicing those photos up is to incorporate your brand into them. Maybe make them link with your text on the right, rather than just a square shape.
 
Also. Coming from a web hosting perspective, rather than a designer - if you're not already doing so already, it's worth using a WordPress cache plugin to speed up loads times. WP Super Cache and W3-Total-Cache are good choice.
 
Also. If you're looking for a WordPress SEO plugin go for Yoast WordPress SEO, over All In One SEO.
 
All the best
 
Richard

Sites don't have to validate, as long as there aren't any big mistakes on a page you can have errors.

the bird looks like the twitter bird, avoid that.......

Whats the site about?
Also it doesn't validate.
http://validator.w3.org/check?uri=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.businessbird.co.uk%2F&charset=%28detect+automatically%29&doctype=Inline&group=0

Well putting an RSS icon on the page like this example from feedicons.com is a start and a quick Google search turns up plenty of nice variations (see http://media.smashingmagazine.com/images/smashing-icons/rss.jpg) Then it's just a simple matter of adding a link from that to the RSS feed xml file.
 
 
Making this

http://www.businessbird.co.uk/feed/
 
look like this suitable for RSS readers

http://www.businessbird.co.uk/feed/site_feed.xml involves some additions to the .htaccess file with a rewrite rule something like this.

Options +FollowSymLinks RewriteBase / RewriteEngine On RewriteRule ^(/feed)/(.+?)\.xml$ /feed/index.php
If you are not familiar with htaccess
and regex syntax then do have a read up from one of the many web tutorials
before playing around with this file.
 
 
QR codes like this example are again really simple to create thanks to Google.

https://chart.googleapis.com/chart?chs=220x220&cht=qr&chl=http://www.businessbird.co.uk/
and can contain URL links or just plain text. [220 x220 is the size of the image but you can make them much smaller and the white border can be removed with a graphics editor package]

1. You cannot rely on the browser telling the visitor an RSS feed exists for the page (or site)so a visible link is required. (did you know twitter also has RSS feeds?)
 
2.a. Several RSS readers for mobile phones will only recognise a URL where the target filename ends with dot XML
2.b. Typing a URL into a smartphone is tedious so would explore using QR codes to send the user to a mobile friendly version of the site or the RSS feed(s).
 
3. Personal Pet Hate: drop down menus with multiline descriptions eg:
 
Saving Time & Staying
Sane »
 
It just looks wrong and would either widen the menu box or rewrite the description to make it shorter thus giving it a bit more 'punch', the same could probably be said of the top two article headers.
 
Save Time Stay Sane

Plenty of folks are making a living out of creating plugins for Magento. If you sling MVC it's easy enough to pick up.

Most pre-built ecommerce platforms already have the ability to add modules and extensions to enhance functionality. However each platform has it's own sets of API's and methods so you're need to target one or more existing systems.

With .com i have heard that this can vary depending on the registrar and the domain name. I would say that if you really want the domain you could buy a domain watcher. This would check the domain every so often and buy it for you the moment it goes available.

You've got all the major points. For me the heading didn't quite match the content...
 
When I read "Opportunities & Constraints in Commercial Real Estate" I thought i was going to read about how the company was telling me about a service they offer. Instead all I see is a load of very hard to read waffle which looks like it's been copied/pasted from somewhere. It is under the "What we do" section after all!

depends how far you want to go, wordpress seems to be the most used for that,
 
cost... basically nothing to be honest and most affiliates are free, no set up costs, its not a cost things its time and content (unique).

Costs:
domain(s)
hosting
website design / template
join fee for affiliate sites
 
you can get templates for about £8/£9 at www.themeforest.net

Add this to your .htaccess file to redirect old pages...
 

redirect 301 /index.html http://www.businessbird.co.uk/

Personally I would do both. But choose a select number directories that specialise in the industry your website is focused on.
 
Here is a backlink tool that is very useful: backlinkwatch.com

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Hehe, easy! Paste this instead:
 

<?php global $user_ID, $user_identity, $user_level ?> <div id="sidebar"> <script type="text/javascript"><!-- google_ad_client = "pub-5915254124102989"; /* 120x240, created 2/4/10 */ google_ad_slot = "7010345918"; google_ad_width = 120; google_ad_height = 240; //--> </script> <script type="text/javascript" src="http://pagead2.googlesyndication.com/pagead/show_ads.js"> </script> <?php // Menu for subpages of current page // Only shows if the current page has subpages if($post->post_parent) { $parent = wp_list_pages("title_li=&include=".$post->post_parent."&echo=0"); $children = wp_list_pages("title_li=&child_of=".$post->post_parent."&echo=0"); } else { $parent = wp_list_pages("title_li=&include=".$post->ID."&echo=0"); $children = wp_list_pages("title_li=&child_of=".$post->ID."&echo=0"); } if ($children) { echo '<h3 class="pages">Sub Pages</h3>'; echo '<ul class="navigation">'; echo $parent; echo $children; echo '</ul>'; } // End Subpage menu ?> <?php // Category Navigation ?> <h3 class="folder">Skill Topics</h3> <ul id="navigation"> <?php wp_list_categories('depth=2&title_li='); ?> </ul> </center> <?php if (is_single() && function_exists('related_posts_by_category')) { $home = get_bloginfo("home"); echo '<h3 class="related">Related Articles</h3>'; echo '<div id="related">'; echo '<ul>'; related_posts_by_category( array( 'orderby' => 'post_date', 'order' => 'DESC', 'limit' => 5, 'echo' => true, 'before' => '<li>', 'inside' => '', 'outside' => '', 'after' => '</li>', 'rel' => 'nofollow', 'type' => 'post', 'message' => '<li><a href="'.$home.'">Sorry, no matches.</a></li>' ) ); echo '</ul>'; echo '</div>'; }?> <h3 class="search">Live Search</h3> <div id="livesearch"> <div class="ajax-loading"></div> <form method="get" action="<?php bloginfo('home'); ?>" autocomplete="off"> <fieldset> <input type="text" value="" name="s" id="s" class="text" style="margin-bottom: 10px;" /> </fieldset> </form> </div> <center> <a href="http://uk.linkedin.com/in/businessbird" > <img src="http://www.linkedin.com/img/webpromo/btn_myprofile_160x33.gif" width="160" height="33" border="0" alt="View business bird's profile on LinkedIn"> </a> <p style="padding-top:1.4em;"> <script src="http://widgets.twimg.com/j/2/widget.js"></script> <script src="http://widgets.twimg.com/j/2/widget.js"></script> <script> new TWTR.Widget({ version: 2, type: 'profile', rpp: 4, interval: 6000, width: '210', height: 300, theme: { shell: { background: '#3b5898', color: '#ffffff' }, tweets: { background: '#eceff4', color: '#000000', links: '#4aed05' } }, features: { scrollbar: false, loop: false, live: false, hashtags: true, timestamp: true, avatars: false, behavior: 'all' } }).render().setUser('businessbirduk').start(); </script> <p style="padding-top:1.4em;"> <center><script type="text/javascript" src="http://static.ak.connect.facebook.com/js/api_lib/v0.4/FeatureLoader.js.php/en_US"></script><script type="text/javascript">FB.init("ea2f2d13ce4708b543759c175a655d51");</script><fb:fan profile_id="273557128000" stream="0" connections="10" logobar="1" width="210"></fb:fan></fb:fan></center> <?php wp_list_bookmarks('depth=2&title_li='); ?> <p style="padding-top:1.4em;"> <?php // User Login Form ?> <?php if ( $user_ID ) { ?> <h3 class="unlocked">Control panel</h3> <ul class="users"> <li><p>Your currently signed in as:<br /> <strong><?php echo $user_identity ?></strong>.</p></li> <li><?php echo get_avatar( $user_ID, $size = '50' ); ?> <ul> <li><a href="<?php bloginfo('url') ?>/wp-admin/">Dashboard</a></li> <?php if ( $user_level >= 1 ) : ?> <li><a href="<?php bloginfo('url') ?>/wp-admin/post-new.php">Write an article</a></li> <?php endif // $user_level >= 1 ?> <?php if ( function_exists('wpWikiFAQsList')) { // The FAQs plugin is installed echo '<li><a href="'.get_bloginfo('wpurl').'/wp-admin/?page='.WPWIKIFAQS_FOLDER.'/addnew.php">Write a FAQ</a></li>'; } ?> <li><a href="<?php bloginfo('url') ?>/wp-admin/profile.php">Your Profile</a></li> <li><?php wp_loginout(); ?></li> </ul> </li> </ul> <?php } else { // If not logged in ?> <h3 class="locked">Sign In</h3> <ul class="users"> <li> <form action="<?php bloginfo('url') ?>/wp-login.php" method="post"> <fieldset> <label for="log">User <input type="text" name="log" id="log" value="<?php echo wp_specialchars(stripslashes($user_login), 1) ?>" size="22" class="text" /></label> <label for="pwd">Password <input type="password" name="pwd" id="pwd" size="22" class="text" /></label> <p> <label for="rememberme"><input name="rememberme" id="rememberme" type="checkbox" value="forever" class="checkbox" /> Remember me</label> <input type="hidden" name="redirect_to" value="<?php echo $_SERVER['REQUEST_URI']; ?>"/> <input type="submit" name="submit" value="Send" class="button" /> </p> </fieldset> </form> </li> <?php if ( get_option('users_can_register') ) { // If registration is open ?> <li><a href="<?php bloginfo('url') ?>/wp-register.php">Become a Memeber</a></li> <?php } // Close registration code ?> <li><a href="<?php bloginfo('url') ?>/wp-login.php?action=lostpassword">Recover password</a></li> </ul> <?php } // End User Login ?> <center><?php wp_widget_colorful_tag_cloud(array());?></center> <p style="padding-top:1.4em;"> <a href="javascript:void(0);" onclick="window.open('http://www.supergreenhosting.com/ecertified?domain='+document.domain+'','SuperGreenHosting','toolbar=0,scrollbars=0,location=0,statusbar=0,menubar=0,resizable=0,width=570,height=680,left=300,top=200');"><img style="border:0px;" src="http://jdimg.com/supergreen/greenbadges/badge4.gif" alt="Green Web Hosting" /></a> </center></div>
 
Let me know if it doesn't work. I didn't much focus into it.

You link is incorrect. You're missing the second B in http://businessbird.co.uk/.
 
Whether your theme is widget ready or not, you should locate the file earlier described by notbanksy, called sidebar.php. This file should be inside your /wp-content/themes/wiki/ folder.
 
Open it in your favorite editor and depending on where you'd like to position the AdSense box, paste in your code.
 
Once you've got that, save the file, and see the result.

There's two ways you can do this: one is that you can paste the javascript into a text widget in your admin dashboard. This will then appear on your sidebar.
 
Or you can paste the code into your sidebar.php file which is located in wp-content/themes/<your theme here>/
 
It should be pretty simple to figure out.

Regarding content I would echo what was said above about just writing on your subject well - the keywords will be those most natural to your subject. Write for visitors.
 
Most importantly Google has this week introduced Answer Highlighting and so bear this in mind when writing copy. If you have within your content the types of questions searchers may put into the Google search box and have the answer too, then Google instead of using your meta description will highlight the text on your page providing the answer to the question.

In your IE6 conditional comment stylesheet
http://businessbird.co.uk/wp-content/themes/wiki/css/ie.css
 
there is this:- background: #fed48b url(../images/welcome_gradient.jpg) repeat-y 0 0;
 
where #fed48b is the gold/dark yellow color and the background image gradient isn't showing.

As a rule of thumb; You should be conducting SEO before, during and after website builds. Having it as a 'bolt on' after thought will do you, or your clients, no favors in the long run. Bottom line, it'll cost you and your clients more money.
 
Build sites around the above SEO techniques to generate traffic, but put these into place as you develop your next website.
 
Andrew Wheeler

Write articles for your own site
Write different articles for other sites, any decent site will want exslusive publishing rights for your article anyway
 
 
Don't worry about it! Your "keywords" will naturally appear in the titles and text copy of your articles, it's all about writing well.