Oct 14, 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.

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If you’re not new and are looking for support or feedback, the Community Pool is the place for you!

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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. 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! Here it is: https://smileycat74.wordpress.com/2016/10/13/first-blog-post/

      (I also noticed that your blog’s home page has some of placeholder text on it, in the footer (the bottom), and that there’s no way to find your posts from the home page. You can find your theme’s details here: https://wordpress.com/themes/goran — it’ll help you learn to customize and configure all the parts of your home page and to set up a menu so readers can get to your posts easily.)

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    1. Interesting idea! I noticed on your site that the social media buttons direct to the site, not your account (clicking on the Instagram button goes to the Insta homepage, not your account). Good luck on your experiment!

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      1. Hi Chrissy! Glad to hear from you and thank you so much for your feedback! 🙂 I will definitely need to fix the links and will do it once I have time to set up the social media sites. Have an awesome day!

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    1. Looking good! One thing — I noticed you’re using a lot of tags on your posts. 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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    2. Hello Chrissy! Your blog’s layout looks great. Hmmm… maybe you can add a gallery section and the Tags widget on your home page to make it easier for your followers to navigate. Other than that, your blog looks promising. Good luck!

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  29. Hi – I am a parent struggling with raising a child with a behavioral disability – My husband and I have often felt very alone in this process, most people just think the child needs additional discipline. Anyway, this is our story, and the ongoing process to find a workable solution – any and all input is appreciated!

    First things First – meet us

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