Aug 25, 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!

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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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    1. The first thing I noticed is that you have 1157 followers. For a new blogger that’s terrific! Taking more of a look at your blog, one thing I’d suggest: you have a list of Top Posts, but a Recent Posts or an Archives widget is a great idea, too. If I want to see what you’ve written recently I can scroll down your Home Page, but some kind of widget on each post is really handy.

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      1. Hi, I am actually less than a month here, I linked my twitter account and fb page on my site, but here in WordPress I only have 15 followers, thanks for the suggestion I will do that. 🙂

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      2. Hi, I am actually less than a month here, I linked my twitter account and fb page on my site, but here in WordPress I only have 15 followers as of today, thanks for the suggestion I will do that. 🙂 I really need someone to look at my site to check for any improvement. thanks ♥♥♥

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  5. Hi,
    My name is Tom and I have recently started writing my blog ‘The Mountain Gardener’. I’m a garden designer with a passion for gardening, nature and mountains. My first blog is about making an ad hoc green roof for your shed, my second about trees and beneficial fungi 🙂
    I’m also looking forward to reading the huge amount of fascinating blogs that you guys are writing!
    https://mountaingardenerblog.wordpress.com/2017/08/26/trees-toadstools/

    Liked by 2 people

  10. Hello everyone! My name is risanci and i recently started a writing and Quotes blog. I would love to know what your thoughts are, if u please take a moment to check it out
    Thanks

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    1. I think you’re content is good but in danger of being lost in the typos and lack of editing. Also your font in the title and description is hard to read. Good Luck!

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    1. Welcome 🙂

      I noticed that you still have some placeholder text in your blog’s sidebar, over to the right of individual posts (that is, not on your homepage) — you can remove or edit that by going to view one of your posts, then going to My Site > Customize > Widgets. Look for the Text Widget!

      (For more on widgets, what they’re for, and how to use them, check out https://learn.wordpress.com/get-flashy/)

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    2. Having a hard time reading through this post because it needs to be broken up a bit. Your writings good. Try playing with the visual of it a bit. Maybe more paragraphs, some bigger fonts to draw attention to your key points?

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  16. Hello,
    My name is Mark. My blog is about an overweight, tired, middle aged, angry, father of 3, who is trying to get back into shape. I’ve signed up to a 10k race in 8 weeks from now to try to raise money for a sick friend, but also to start loving life again.
    Check it out fellow bloggers:
    Ploddingalongslowly.wordpress.com

    Liked by 1 person

  17. Hello, my name is Ana, I’m from Croatia and I recently started writing a blog. I would really like if you guys want to visit my page and tell me what you think about my writing style. So, come on and check 🙂

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    1. One thing I noticed — you’re using a lot of tags on most 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, not easier. Make sure you’re focusing on the most relevant ones.

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  21. Hi everyone, my name is Ario and I just started writing a blog. I would like to know about how to make my blog better. All I know right now is just writing, I don’t know how to customize it. It will be good if you want to share some of your experience to me. I’m Indonesian, I hope my English is good enough to understand.
    You can check my blog, leave your comment about my first blog. 🙂

    https://ifounderblog.wordpress.com/

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    2. A tip — you’re using a lot of tags on some of your posts. The WordPress.com Reader 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.

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  27. Hi all, I just started a blog. I decided to make the blog about me and my family. I am not sure if I am doing this right but I am interested in blogging to get people advice and comments. Feel free to comment and ask questions. Thank you for reading.

    Watch me shine

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  29. Hi there
    Nice to meet you all.
    There are some seriously great blogs happening here 😊 well done all. So great to know there are so many others out there being so creative!

    https://jamjerusalemandasideplateofporn.wordpress.com/2017/08/27/first-blog-post/

    Here’s my offering….
    Can someone please advise how the adult filter works? I did try and set it to mature content as things do get rather fruity…. but it wouldn’t accept It? I obviously don’t want to get in to trouble and offend anyone.

    Best wishes ☺

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