Mar 3, 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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    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://ofetemiatse.wordpress.com/

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      3. thanks for your reply…but i’d like to plz visit to this blog of mine and give me ur valuable feedback 🙂 the link is randoteenager.blogspot.in

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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://myinnerturmoilblog.wordpress.com/

      I also 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/harmonic — it’ll help you learn to customize and configure all the parts of your home page.

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  8. https://mystorieswithmusic.com/2017/02/26/the-beach/?iframe=true&theme_preview=true

    In my blog MyStoriesWithMusic, I combine my songs with my short stories. This means that the stories and the music are linked in some way, but they are not necessarily about the same theme. They have the same title, and as you read the story you will find the song in the story in some way. I will be happy for all help and feedback 🙂

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  16. Hello all! I’ve just started a new blog to write about my journey as a chubby office worker on the road to health and fitness. I’m not new to WordPress…I have another blog that is a travel blog I’ve been writing for a while, but this is a new area for me. I’m not used to opening up about my struggles as I’ve been a very outwardly positive person for years. Anyway, wondering what you guys think and maybe some tips on the kinds of things I should write about. Will anybody even read this thing? haha that remains to be seen. https://deskjockeyfitness.wordpress.com/2017/03/07/well-here-i-am/

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    1. Welcome!

      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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    This is a blog I made for high school students like me or just people who are curious what my high school experience is like. It’s a way for me to vent and I plan to upload my first real post this Friday!! I’m so excited!

    Hopefully I see you guys over there, thanks!

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    1. Welcome! A couple of tips:

      I noticed that your blog’s home page a bit of placeholder text on it. 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.

      I also 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, keep an eye out and maker sure you’re using fewer than that!

      Happy blogging 🙂

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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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    1. Welcome 🙂

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

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  23. Hi. I am writing down my own stories and I love to hear from you about the things that I can improve. Feel free to comment about my work! qwertinapie.wordpress.com

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