Oct 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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  1. Happy Friday Y’all!

    Hope you enjoy the beginning of the weekend smell. Hope I am not too late for the Friday vibes, please check out and support my New Blog.

    https://nutritariannerd.wordpress.com

    Don’t be afraid to leave a comment, positive feedback is always appreciated.

    P.S: if there is a particular article you would like for me to write about, Message me directly ❤

    Thank you,

    Carol, the Nutrition Nerd

    Liked by 7 people

    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, which is sad! If you cut your tags down to the most relevant, you’ll actually draw more readers.

      An easy way to start cutting down: get rid of super-general tags like “food” or “break.” Think more specifically about your post and what it’s really about, and think about what *you* would search for to find a post like this.

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    1. Hi Mary, great start to your blog,love your casual style of writing. My only other comment is that I found the background pink a tad too heavy on the eye especially since your font us quite light, but that’s just me.

      Good luck

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    1. Yes, exactly right. Welcome 🙂

      If you look over to the right of your posts, you’ll see a bit of placeholder text — it’s meant to help you learn how to work with widgets, and you can remove or edit that by 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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      1. Thank you!! I really appreciate the comment, and opinion. I do have some positive stuff, and will be posting in the near future. As of now, I do have some positive stuff on my Instagram page.

        Thanks again!
        N

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    4. 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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    1. Hi! Even, though I’m new here and I’m not able to help you improve with anything, I’ve just read your story and I absolutely loved it. Its great that you write it such deeply, that it can touch the soul of a person. Please, keep it up! 🙂

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    1. I started the same way and I’m loving’ it so far!
      Welcome to blogging, great blog and wish you the best with it! 🙂

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