Feb 10, 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. 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://letstalkabout13.wordpress.com/

      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.

      Welcome!

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  3. I started my blog a month ago to tell tales of travel and treasures, poems and stories about the extraordinary and the everyday. I’d love to have some feedback, here is my first post: goldonthewater.wordpress.com/2017/01/09/masala/

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  8. Hello and welcome, new folks! We’re really excited to meet you.

    As usual, I just want to remind everyone that we moderate the comments on First Friday pretty heavily — this is really a space for brand new people to introduce themselves and meet one another, and for others to welcome and support them. If you’re not here to either share your (recent) first post or leave a supportive comment, please head to the Community Pool, which is where any blogger can seek feedback on any aspect of blogging. And if you’re not sure what the guidelines here are, please read the above post — or just ask!

    Happy blogging, y’all:)

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  9. so I just posted my first post. Sorry it is super long!
    https://iamlindseybernice.wordpress.com/

    You can check it out. I am confused I thought because I thought I had it in a category but it is showing up when I click it on the menu category…..help would be greatly appreciated as well as your thoughts on the post! Thank you all for your time so far!

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    1. Howdy! I’m not sure I understand the problem with your menu/categories. Could you be a little more specific about what’s happening, and what how would like things to work? I’m happy to help!

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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.

      Welcome!

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  19. Hi all! I’ve been enjoying WordPress blogs lately because Twitter is rotting my brain. I made #myfirstpost in more than two years. I got 8 likes, which is more than I’ve ever had. I just typed a page out of my journal.
    I like dogs, nature, books, and peaceful revolution type stuff. I don’t want to fight or argue with anyone so I think that is why I rarely post and never comment.
    I don’t care to have perfect grammar and spelling
    I like to read people’s true stories, hope you like to read my life.

    https://wordpress.com/stats/day/bersbeerbellydances.wordpress.com

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  21. Hello everyone! I started my blog about a week ago and am really excited to start this new adventure. A little about my blog intentions ( I say intentions bc I am a baby blogger just a week old remember) is to share positivity and happiness. Trying to find the good in everything. I also will post about food and recipes, fertility issues, hobbies such as camping, hiking, biking, and many more. Basically my blog is a place you can go to find variety if you like that sort of thing,
    So please check me out and follow me
    livelifelaughs.blog

    Thank you for the support!

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  22. Hello Fellow bloggers ! I have written a blog on New Beginnings ! It describes how we all experience fresh starts at so many points in our lives . Check it out and let me know your feedback

    New Beginnings

    – Also I do landscape photography Instagram – taurav_29

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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.

      Liked by 2 people