Dec 23, 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.

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

For technical questions, visit the WordPress.com Support Forums.

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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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    2. Welcome!

      One thing I noticed — you’re using a lot of tags 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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  2. Hi…everyone, am a new blogger. I blog on fashions in line with clothings, shoes and wrist watches. Please i will kindly like anyone interested to check out my blog. Thank you very much, appreciated

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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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  10. Hello everyone! New blogger here. Any help and suggestion is appreciable. I am just starting to learn and I’ll be honest in saying that I do find it a little difficult. Please take a look and leave your suggestions. I’ll be more than happy to visit your blogs in return😄
    Much love ❤

    “Fire”

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  11. Hi Folks!!! First of all a Merry Christmas to all of you out here in the blogging sphere. I am a newbie in this vast world and have currently posted my first article whose link can be found here
    https://enigmaticmotivator.wordpress.com/2016/12/25/discovering-the-journey/

    Let me boast a little about myself so that you get an idea who am I and what is the blog about. I am Enigma, a mystery. I have kept my identity private in this world. So, this blog is for all those people who desperately are in need for some motivation, the shattered ones, the ones who are searching for confidence and encouragement. So here I present this blog.
    I am not boring you, am I? So peeps, without wasting your much time here I post my about page…
    https://enigmaticmotivator.wordpress.com/about/
    I am very excited to make new friends in this new world… Looking forward for comments and likes…
    Bye People, thank you for reading this longgggggggg comment

    Loads of love,
    Stay blessed,
    Enigma

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    1. Oh, no worries – I would argue you are in right company. Lots of us value our privacy and see blogs as a way to express themselves in a way they don’t in real life. Or want to express themselves with different crowds. I’m guilty on both counts 😉

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  13. Poetry blog and searching for all around love and positivity in this world!! I believe in adventuring and feelings all things deeply. Would love for you to check it out!! Xoxo

    001
    when words pour out of me, I cannot equate it to anything other than tears. 
    my mind releases and suddenly water is pouring out of my mouth
    as if I …

    001// Do I Cry Often?

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    1. Great site name! I look forward to reading more of your posts!

      The cursive writing is a little difficult to read, especially if it’s a longer post than you have. You should fill out your About Me page and give information that people can relate to- gender, relative age, where you live, etc… Some people prefer to maintain an anonymous identity and go by a blogging pseudonym- I’m not for that and find it really annoying- but to each their own. 🙂

      The most important thing is to keep writing! Good luck and welcome!

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    1. Never been a writer before, you say? What?! This is absolutely amazing! You are amazing! Your descriptions, vocabulary, and word use are impressive and so refreshing!

      The only criticism I would have is to add in a ‘read more’ line a few paragraphs in on each post so that as you are scrolling on your home page you can get a glimpse of all of your posts, not have to scroll all the way through each one.

      I look forward to reading!

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      1. Hello Victoria. Thanks very much for your extremely positive feedback. Not sure if is deserved but I blushed anyway!! I appreciate the tip on ‘read more’; I will amend ASAP. Take care, safe travels……. Bill

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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: https://corporatekanpuriya.wordpress.com/

      Also, I noticed that your blog’s home page has lots of placeholder text on it. You can find your theme’s details here: https://wordpress.com/themes/karuna — it’ll help you learn to customize and configure all the parts of your home page. And if you feel like you could use a little more help with the ins and outs of WordPress.com, there’s a really useful “getting started” tutorial here: http://learn.wordpress.com.

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  27. Thoughts from Kenna | Today is where your book begins, the rest is still unwritten
    https://kgrisham.wordpress.com/

    My blog is about my journey to starting over. I recently went through a break up and I am adjusting to living alone as well as preparing for my career to begin. I recently graduated and hope to move away from my family and all I have ever known so this journey will be a big one!

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    1. Looks 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 🙂 )

      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 Widget!

      Welcome 🙂

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    1. “Late October of 2012 while Hurricane Sandy was busy demolishing lives, Hurricane Alcoholism was busy demolishing mine.”

      Simply loved the start of the post. You really know how to capture attention… that blog post is professional level writing. Will subscribe and follow!

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    1. I didn’t really think that there will be time when I’ll be glad that I am bold… but going over list of things you need to do in order to maintain… it seems hard 😉

      Very informative post!

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