Sep 30, 2016 / First Friday

First Friday

New blogger? Welcome! Share a link to your first post, say hello to other new faces, and find your first few readers.

Image by <a href="https://www.flickr.com/photos/nicolebeaulac/14523302989/in/photolist-o8nHZF-8rm4S3-4qSDKZ-59PhPN-oehCvG-6L4biF-o8oMhZ-59K5dR-6L4j72-okR4Ln-5PiY9A-59K4UX-52g3dU-27Nf81-2ZYhE3-oL2VyZ-dGfrZn-6L8rvj-8hS4H5-6BcEmP-5Gx2tR-ocxbCS-8WLdjF-6BcGne-7e1ndv-oL2syE-oXdQbM-8KcZem-oiNrGn-6L4cEi-bjKZne-8g3bLG-bgykmz-6L8mio-8WLdjV-8WLdjv-aL4fMr-9X1RoC-boow88-oBYMUV-esxgv1-525zPK-duqKvE-pHSTmW-eewW8e-o92SFa-aL4fSV-2LvJoi-7e5gij-6L4az8">Nicole Beaulac</a>.

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To find, copy, and paste your link:
Head to your blog’s home page — not your dashboard, your blog itself. Click on the title of your post to open the individual post.

Highlight and copy the URL you see in your browser’s address bar, and paste the entire URL into a comment here.

Welcome to First Friday, a weekly open thread where any new blogger can share a link to his or her very first post with the larger WordPress.com community. To share your first post with us, copy and paste the link right into a comment here. If you’re not new, you can still be a part of First Fridays: visit a link or two, and leave the blogger a like or comment.

Please don’t use this as a space to share your first post…. that you published three years ago; ditto for simply sharing your latest post. Posts should have been published within the last month, and should be your first post. We’ll remove other posts to keep this space focused for new bloggers.

We ask that you help us keep this space focused by following a few additional guidelines:

  • We encourage anyone who shares a link to visit a few other bloggers. New readers for all!
  • When commenting, the third time is not the charm: don’t share the same link repeatedly, or in multiple First Friday threads. We’ll remove repeat posts.
  • Link directly to your new post, rather than to your blog generally — it makes it that much easier for folks to like the post or leave you comments.
  • Avoid repeated “Follow for a follow!” comments. (Tip: if you’re trying to build a readership, it’s much more effective to visit and comment on individual bloggers.)
  • To keep from losing your place while you visit others’ blogs, right-click on links to open them in a new tab or window.
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    1. Welcome! FYI: that link goes to your dashboard, which is private, so people won’t be able to see your site. The simplest way to get the public link is to go to your blog’s public homepage and click on the post title. Then, copy the address you see in your browser’s address bar and use that. Here’s your homepage: http://xena793.wordpress.com/

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    1. Welcome! FYI: that link goes to a login page, which is private, so people won’t be able to see your site. The simplest way to get the public link is to go to your blog’s public homepage and click on the post title. Then, copy the address you see in your browser’s address bar and use that. Here’s your homepage: http://edsbuensmd.wordpress.com/

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  12. Hello I have just started blogging.. I do a mixture of daily blog posts about everyday things, movie, book and series reviews.. Drop by if you’d like to check it out misfit1987.wordpress.com x

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    1. Hi there! We’re glad you’re so excited about your new blog (yay!) but would ask that you not leave multiple, repetitive comments asking people for visits and follows — it’s considered spammy, and the duplicate comments will be removed.

      Also, a tip — I noticed you used a lot of tags on your post. The WordPress.com Reader actually filters out posts that use more than 15 tags and categories (combined) as an anti-spam measure, so using this many tags actually makes it harder for folks to find your posts, which is sad! If you cut your tags down to the most relevant, you’ll actually draw more readers.

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  14. Thank you for doing this. I must have missed it when I started blogging at the beginning of the year, but this is an excellent way to get new bloggers much needed attention. Thank you!

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  15. Hello, I’m portuguese and I’m new at blogging. My blog is about travel and lifestyle. If you want to see it and help me improve my work here it is: meandhiminaperfectdream.wordpress.com
    Good luck to you all!

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    1. Welcome! There are lots of caretakers writing blogs here — I’ve seen a few commenting on this post — so you’re definitely not alone.

      A few things as you get started: Look like you’ve posted a link to your preview, which only you can see — make sure you share the link to the public, published post. I also noticed that you still have some placeholder text in your blog’s footer — you can remove or edit that by going to My Site > Customize > Widgets. Look for the Text Widgets!

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  23. Hi people!
    I’ve started blogging two weeks back, but I’ve been writing from quite a long time.
    Would like to share my new blog with you all that I just posted few minutes back. Your comments related to it is appreciated and criticisms welcomed.
    Happy read 🙂

    A Token

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    1. Congrats on your first post! I wish you good luck! I only would like more details and more of what the purpose is for the video cause I want to see what the video is about before I click on the link. Thanks!

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    1. Hear, hear! Welcome 🙂

      A few things I noticed while reading your post:
      – You have no “like” button — I really wanted to press it! You can add one by going to My Site > Sharing, and then clicking on the “Sharing Buttons” tab. That’s where you can add the Like button and buttons to help people share on Facebook/Twitter/etc.
      – I noticed that you still have some placeholder text in your blog’s footer — you can remove or edit that by going to My Site > Customize > Widgets. Look for the Location and Text Widgets!

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    2. I enjoyed reading this! I really like the layout of your blog and I like how you started explaining about why you started to blog! I also live in a house where everything seems to break at once no matter how many times i fix things!

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