Everyone wants to have Good look and feel for their own blog. WordPress is providing really nice blogging platform which is used by many people like me. I used to share Blogging Tips which can help you make your blog better and sometime I used write about WordPress plug-in which can help you to improve your blog look or performance.

Today I would like to share revive of Cu3er Post Elements which is WordPress plug-in based on cu3er technology. This is plug-in is good to show Image plays. If anyone is having Image Blog he/she can use this plug-in to show as Slider or one can use it to Portfolio.

What is Cu3er ?

According to the developer of this plug-in  : CU3ER : flash 3D image slider you will love! CU3ER is:

• FREE
• EASY to set up
• CUSTOMIZABLE via XML
• TAILORED to provide a UNIQUE look & feel
• INSPIRING
• FUN-to-USE

WordPress Cu3er Plug-in

If you talking only about Slider then Smooth Slider is my first choice but if you are looking for something really Stylish yet simple then Cu3er Post Elements is really good choice.

You just need to define from which category you want to publish the post, how many post you want to publish, height & Wight of the slider and few other setting.

Cu3er Post Elements (WordPress Cu3er Plug-in) Review

Personally I feel this plug-in need to add few more features but still it really useful for newbie blogger or not techy bloggers.

Positive :

• Easy to Use
• Fast Implementation
• No Coding require
• Auto fetching Images & Text
• User Define Slider size

Need to Improve:

• Customer Selection for specific post
• Images is not comes in centre (User define Image location )
• More control control for look & feel.

As I mention earlier this plug-in is really good for them who are using Image Blog, newbie, Don’t know much coding etc. If you can check my other post on How to protect content Theft ? or How to add Google Buzz etc.

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I guess you must read an Article on why you should Comment on my blog? And I really got some more comments by that post. Which was telling you the benefits of commenting on my blog? I hope you all get benefited. If you missed it then you must comment now on this post and the older post as well.

Commenting is best tool to be in touch with your favourite blog / blogger but do you think it is also having some inherited benefit as well.   Check the following benefits for commenting on others blog.

Get external Backlinks to your Blog

There are two type of Backlinks  1) Internal Backlink 2) External Backlinks. Both have their own value. One help us to gain Internal Link Juice and one will help for External Link Juice. External links will help you to get better rankings in Search Engines. I used to comment on any post / content I like. You might can see me comment first on any of my friends blog.

Personal Brand Development

This is some broad concept to understand. It helps in various ways to develop your personal brand. If you are used to read blog and feel you can contribute some to that topic this gives some extra mileage in terms of “Visibility”. People must feel that this guys is having good knowledge. Same manner if you jump in some discussion, of course with solution this all help you to develop you personal brand.

Get Some/More Traffic & Subscribers

When you put some notable comment many one wants to know more about you and your blog this the way you are getting some extra traffic. If your comment is having more impact then It might lead that visitor to subscribe for your blog too.  one comment and lot many benefits. How’s that ?

Online Relationship Build-up with Bloggers

When you are comment on any ones blog and with really good inputs, Blog owner really visit your blog. If he/she likes your blog then you must get comment on your blog too. These things lead you to some really good relation with bloggers (leading bloggers too). I am having habit of commenting and this help me to get good terms with Daniel Scocco, Founder of Daily Blog Tips and many other successful blogs. After that I even published article How To Optimize Your Site for Local Search on Daily Blog Tips ( that was really some achievement for me during that time.

Get an Idea for Next Blog post

Many times we want to write something for our blog but we are missing some good topic / content / idea. When you are commenting on other blogs, you must read that article first in order to comment so this can give you some Idea that about your next topic.

So what your gaining by spending few minutes a day ? You care improving your blog in terms of Search Engine Optimization, You are getting more visitors and more subscribers, You are expanding your network across the Cyberspace, Getting new friends and of course you are making your Personal Brand Better.

Tell from when you are going to start commenting? Don’t miss time, just comment here and start enjoying benefits. Just make sure you will have some more blog which is having commetLuv plugin. Which can give you more mileage. Even I am having that plug in install at my blog.

Everyone who starts blog or connect to be online media they start thinking about how they can make money online and they started their journey like Treasure Hunting. Making money from online media is not a easy job but of course you can make good amount of money if you work in right direction.

Now you might be feeling that how to find right direction and you must having so many question in your mind about Blogging and Make Money online. You must be thinking that if you could have some guide or guru sort of stuff you can make it very fast.

You need to go long for finding Guide just read Make Money Blogging by Daniel Scocco, a famous blogger and founder of Daily Blog Tips.

This is book is really good in sense it guide you from choosing blog platform like Blogger, WordPress or Self hosted blog till the entire journey in blogging. Daniel is blogging since 2006 and this book shares all the hurdles he might face or might be going to face. He had covered very small thing even. As a active Blogger I can understand that this book is really helpful to starters.

You can download this book from http://www.dailyblogtips.com/make-money-blogging/ but for that you need to signup for his news letter which gives you constant learning experience.

So what are you waiting for  ? Just share you experience with me too as comments.

Every visitor who visit my blog is not commenting on my posts / articles. Industry survey says there is 2% or 3 % from your visitors commenting your blog. Why so less because people are not bother to comment any where until and unless they might get benefit out of it.

If I say if you comment on my blog you will get good benefit out of it. I am sure you will love to comment as well as you will keep commenting on my blog. The main befits are as follows.

Get Do follow Back Links

My blog is having dofollow atribute so when you are commenting on my blog you will get a dofollow backlink. Isn’t it you are looking for ?

Don’t Buy any thing still get two free

Generally We are getting some irresistible offer from leading brands about “Buy one Get one free” but here you will get two free just for doing comments. Wondering How ? I am using CommentLuv Plugin so when ever you start writing post, after submitting your Name, Email and URL, this plugin will find latest post of your Blog / Site via your RSS. Now you are end up with two links one is your Home URL and second one is your latest Post URL. Just check this as example bellow.

Get Pagerank Share from my Blog

I hope you are aware about Pagerank, If not check the definition of Google as follows.

PageRank relies on the uniquely democratic nature of the web by using its vast link structure as an indicator of an individual page’s value. In essence, Google interprets a link from page A to page B as a vote, by page A, for page B. But, Google looks at more than the sheer volume of votes, or links a page receives; it also analyzes the page that casts the vote. Votes cast by pages that are themselves “important” weigh more heavily and help to make other pages “important”.

Google is checking all Inbound / Outbound links of you page and will share your PR. The better you have internal links the better you will get advantage for getting PR leaking internally. I am dare to share my PR with all my commentators. Just get more information about Internal Linking and PageRank Leakage

Get New Visitors

If you landed to my page and you put down any comment at the end of the comment there is link of your latest post and this link can attract new visitors to your blog. For this you must have a catchy Title and killer content.

Get more Visibility in blogger Community

When ever you are reading good article you might be checking comments for that article. I hope more then 85% blogger are doing the same. If you are sharing good comment or informative comments you will automatically get more visibility to other Blogger.

I can write few more advantage as well but now it’s your turn to find it and share it as a comment. So what are you waiting for Keep Commenting ………………..

I must feel regret not be regular updating my site. I was busy due to my commitments and some other issues. Now a day’s my schedule is too tight so not be able to write regular, on top of that my all sites get Virus attack so me and Dhaval (my younger Bro – Who is PHP techy ) was very busy to control the situations. Now all fine and I learn a lesson that How we can secure our Blog / wordpress Site.

Today I want to share my personal experience about how to secure your blog from Hacking, Virus Attack and from unauthorised access.

After attack on my site, I had visited many sites which talk about WordPress Security. The conclusion as well as common things are as follows.

• Keep latest version of WordPress and keep it updated time to time. You must keep visiting WordPress official blog or subscribe for it. This will help to get an updation about WordPress. Don’t waste time to update the WordPress patch if it “Security Patch”
• You must change default password which is generated by WordPress and Password should not be easy to remember. Password should be combination of Special Character, Numeric and alphabets.
• You should block Search Engine to crawl your WordPress related folders. Now don’t think much how to do this just add following line to your robots.txt

Disallow: /wp-*

• Did you ever realised that people can check which plugin you are using. Got shocked ? check just yoursite.com/wp-content/plugins/ If your hosting provider is good service then you will get an error else you will get shocked. Now what to do ? Confused ? Don’t worry guys. Say thanks to Matt Cutts he has shared brilliant idea. Just make one blank file named “Index.html” and put it at same folder. Now any one visit this folder they just get blank page or Install plugin named “Secure WordPress”
  

  Secure-WordPress-Plugin

• You must remove WordPress version information line from Meta : That line is look like following string (

If you had installed “Secure WordPress” plugin then you need not to worry too much this plugin will do the same. )

<meta content=”WordPress <?php bloginfo(‘version’); ?>” />

• Now you must lock your Login Page to make sure no one unauthorised person will login into system. Need not to worry you can check this plugin : Login LockDown . This will block your login page if any one try to hack for certain bad attempt.
  

  Login LockDown WordPress Security Plugin

• Now finally you want to implement multiple level of security then you must look at AskApache Password Protect “This plugin doesn’t control WordPress or mess with your database, instead it utilizes fast, tried-and-true built-in Security features to add multiple layers of security to your blog. This plugin is specifically designed and regularly updated specifically to stop automated and unskilled attackers attempts to exploit vulnerabilities on your blog resulting in a hacked site. ”   (This will work if you are using Apache Server)

This will provide your blog to more security and more reliability so that you can focus more on your work and feel protected.

Check Official Update from WordPress Blog : How to Keep WordPress Secure

Want to move from blogger to wordpress site ?

Blogger to WordPress Redirection

Many bloggers who start bogging for understand the things, getting used to with these termilogy, earn money without investment and so many other reasons, mostly they start with Blogger.com which is free utility by Google. Even I am one of them. But when you are used to with these and at that time you feels that I should start my site with WordPress self hosted site as WordPress has many advantage in terms of SEO, Plug-in etc. But now great question is my blogspot blog is very popular and now I don’t want to loose my visitors while moving to new domain blog. Did I got trapped? No dude there is still a way to come out from it and make 303 redirect to your blogger blog to your self hosted blog.

I am sharing my own experience with you how I did the same. I was having blog about Mr. Narendra Modi, CM, Gujarat and leading politician of India. It’s url is thenarendramodi.blogspot.com and now it is http://www.thenarendramodi.info

If you are also planning to move your blogspot blog to wordpress selfhosted site then you have two options :

1. If your blog is too much popular and having good PR (Page Rank) and you want to maintain it and don’t want to loose much on PR as well as back-links (in some cases). In this case you must have patience to wait for 3-4 months for things going set. This is a bit long procedure but if you have time to wait then you must follow this procedure. Find detailed procedure at http://www.devilsworkshop.org by Rahul Bansal.
2. You can’t wait for your new adventure (website) and you are not much concern about your PR then you can move your blogspot blog to new selfhosted site in maximum half an hour to one hour. It’s it cool ?. Well this will be post to post conversion, I mean if any one try to open any of your blogpsot link like http://thenarendramodi.blogspot.com/2008/05/mukesh-ambani-praises-narendra-modi.html will automatically redirect to your new site like http://www.thenarendramodi.info/mukesh-ambani-praises-narendra-modi/ This will be explained in detailed at http://www.devilsworkshop.org by Rahul Bansal.

What I did for transfer my blog ?

• Purchase new domain & web space. You can get good deal for the same from my hosting provider.



• Install wordpress CMS from wordpress (One of the best CMS, I had ever seen till date)
• Transfer all post from blogspot blog to this site using wordpress import blog feature.
• Install Blogger To WordPress 1-2-1 Redirection Plugin and couple of other plugin
• Update my blogspot blog as per instructed by Rahul @ Blogger To WordPress 1-2-1 Redirection Plugin guide page.
• Cross my fingures and search for my blog and click on the result.
• That result link will lead me to my new blog and I just cheer up.

I must admit here this is very easy procedure is explained by Rahul Bansal and one can do it easily if he / she is bit technical person.

So what are you waiting for? Just start your own site, just buzz me if you are looking for any help or support from me. If you have any technical queries you can post comment at Plugin Page Rahul will revert you shortly.

Cheers !!! Keep Blogging.