Dec 16, 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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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 their first post with the larger WordPress.com community. To share your post, copy and paste the link right into a comment here.

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. 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!

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!
  • The third time is not the charm: don’t share your stuff repeatedly, or in multiple First Friday threads. We’ll remove repeat posts.
  • 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. These will be removed as well.
  • Avoid repeated “Follow for a follow!” comments or repeatedly replying to comments with your link; this is considered spammy. (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. One thing I noticed — you’re using a lot of tags and categories on some of 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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  4. Hi. My blog will mostly have reviews, mostly of science fiction and fantasy short stories. Some will be full reviews for Tangent and the like but most will just be reviews of individual stories from webzines that I liked. Only some of you may be interesting in that topic but everyone could give me feedback on the blog as a blog, in terms of the “do’s and don’t’s.”

    Main page (including first post): https://featuredfutures.wordpress.com

    First post, itself: https://featuredfutures.wordpress.com/2016/12/14/review-of-december-2016-asimovs-for-tangent/

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    2. One tip — you might want to update your site title and tagline to something more personal. You can do that by going to My Site > Customize > Site Identity.

      Welcome back!

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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!

      (If you’re not sure how to get the correct link, just ask 🙂 )

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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 main page and click on the post title. Then, copy the address you see in your browser’s address bar and use that. Here’s your site: http://corporatehippieweb.wordpress.com/

      Two tips — first, you’ll want to give your site a title. You can add one by going to My Site > Customize > Site Identity. Second, your home page has a bunch of placeholder posts — you can delete them by going to My Site > Posts.

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    1. Welcome 🙂

      I noticed that you still have some placeholder text in your blog’s sidebar — you can remove or edit that by going to My Site > Customize > Widgets. Look for the Text Widget!

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    1. Thanks Katiaan 😊 for the reply and follow I’m glad you liked my first post I would like to hear more from you and your grandma as well

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  19. Hi I just join yesterday. I am not such my writing came out good. It is a poem, called I miss you. I wrote a little after I broke up with my boyfriend. I hope you like it.
    LUNA MOON

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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 main page and click on the post title. Then, copy the address you see in your browser’s address bar and use that. Here’s your site:

      I also noticed that your blog’s home page has some placeholder text on it that you’ll probably want to edit to be something personal. You can find your theme’s details here: https://wordpress.com/themes/affinity — it’ll help you learn to customize and configure all the parts of your home page.

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    1. 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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    1. I agree with your grey post! I struggle with that often, especially around people who view things as only black and white. More than that, the tone of your writing is very personable! Keep up the good work! 🙂

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    1. A tip — I see you’re using a lot of tags and categories 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 you! If you cut your tags down to the most relevant, your blog will appear in the Reader and actually draw more visitors.

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      1. Thank you so very much! I’m used to the tagging system from YouTube where you get about forty tags. I’ll keep that in mind for this platform. And thanks for checking out my site! Merry Christmas!

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  30. I recently started this blog on a whim and decided that I could take my journaling to the next level.
    I simply want to offer people a new perspective on things and show them that things can be both terrible and great but despite all the things thrown at us, our humanity which has made us resilient, will get us through the day.

    Thank you for taking the time to look at this.

    The Aura Around Us

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