Guest Post Publishers Checklist

If you have a popular blog with decent traffic and a community, you probably accept Guest Posts or at least some one would have emailed you if they could post in your blog.

Check Before Love

Well, accepting Guest Posts is a good idea – you get a different view point, free posts, and some additional promotion from the guest authors side and so on.

But things can go bad sometimes; make sure you do the following checks

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Make a Full Width Page For Your WordPress Theme

A Full Width Page is one that has no sidebars and all the width of the page is just content. Such a page has many applications. You might not wish to show sidebars on your contact page for instance. Well, lets see some better applications of Full-Width Pages.

Full Width Page in WordPress

Making a Sales Page – Traditional sales pages don’t have sidebars (haven’t you seen those pages with lots of customer feedback and that pages where you have to scroll miles and miles to see the end?). Removing Sidebar makes it look better.

Search Result Pages for Google Custom Search Engine – If you choose to display results of Google CSE on your own pages; the script they give you can insert ads on the right of the searches just as we see on Google. A full width page can make way for the ads.

Enough, lets do it.

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15+ Most Common Web design mistakes Reviewed

A guest post by Steeve. If you wish to write one, check out the guest-posting guidelines and details.

The top most common web design mistakes most designers make. There are several websites where web designers were unable to come up with a proper web designing solution.

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Finally, Here is a sure shot way to remove WordPress meta Generator Tags

Most WordPress themes add a meta generator tag to the code. This tag is used to get the statistics of how many sites and using which WordPress versions. It looks like this in the browser:

WordPress Meta Tags

The bad thing about leaving the tags there is that, any potential hacker can easily identify which version you are using. From another angle, if someone manages to find a security glitch in any WordPress version, he would be able to search for all blogs using that particular version.

One way that used to work was by deleting the tag from the theme. Open up header.php and remove this line:

<meta name="generator" content="WordPress <?php bloginfo('version'); ?>" />

I have found that removing this doesn’t fix this often. One sure shot way that always work is using functions.php to add a little code:

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Blogging to the Next Level

It is rightly said that a blog grows in levels. You climb a couple of steps and then comes a plateau. You stay there for a while, going to the next plateau is twice as difficult.

For a considerably long time, I was stuck at a plateau, in terms of RSS readers and traffic. Adsense is no longer a concern, if you might have noticed, Million Clues is now Adsense free. Going Adsense free is not going Ad free, I am experimenting with static ads and affiliates.

Blogging to the Next Level

Planning is vital for any progress, here I expose my current strategy to take this blog to the next level. Your suggestions are most welcome.

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