Jan 13, 2017 / 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.

To learn more about blogging, take a Blogging U. course.

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. Hello Again All,

    My first response was done hastily and I did not say all that I needed to. Below is the link to my first blog post.

    Welcome Reader

    I was so nervous about this, starting a blog. But then I began posting, and people starting liking. WordPress has a wonderful community of writers and I am honored to be among them.

    Please stop by my site, read a little, and offer feedback and I’ll return the favor. Follow me and I’ll follow you back!

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      1. Sure 🙂 I’m also into travel and getting ideas and inspiration from my co-bloggers. Maybe we could follow each other here?

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    2. We’re excited that you’re so excited about your blog! But please don’t leave repeated, identical comments asking people to check you our — it’s considered spammy, and the duplicates will be removed. The best way to get people interested in you is to be interested in them!

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  5. Hi ! my name is Jefri and I just started a new fresh blog as the project of my English Class. Please don’t hesitate to give any constructive feedback regarding my writing, could be its grammar, words selection, or anything 😀 thank you for the attention & have a good day !

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    2. Welcome 🙂

      Looks like you haven’t given your site a title yet! If you’d like to add one (we recommend it), you can do that my going to My Site > Customize > Site Identity.

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  7. Hi everyone, I’ve just recently started a lifestyle blog that features everything from hair & beauty, health tips to travel! Any constructive criticism would be great on how I can improve! I’m in the process of writing more blogs to fill in the empty categories at the moment. Please give it a read and maybe a follow, it would mean the world! Thank you! 😊

    https://theconfessionsofanonlineshopaholic.wordpress.com/

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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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  12. Breathing Space | Feeling the pulse of life
    https://helendasilva1968.wordpress.com/

    This is my first attempt at blogging … journeying along the open road with childlike wonder and excitement! I have no idea what I’m doing, and that’s the beauty it ~ just allowing space for the creative energy to flow organically.

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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://httnehaachande.wordpress.com/

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

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