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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  10. servantsaintblog.wordpress.com/2017/10/09/real-friendship/
    I started blogging a month ago in sept. Im a real newbie to tech, and I would love some help on getting eyeballs to read my blog. feedback is also great. thanks for any help to give me some exposure. Thanks so much!

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  11. Sorry, Im so lost and new to wordpress the link above didnt show properly. As I said, Im a newbie to blogging. Just started a month ago. I would love some help on getting eyeballs to my site. Thanks to anyone who could give me some exposure. Very grateful!

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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 your posts — 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/)

      There are some great guided courses at http://bloggingu.wordpress.com, and if you feel like you could use a little more help with the ins and outs of WordPress.com, there’s a useful “getting started” tutorial here: http://learn.wordpress.com.

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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.

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  24. http://cincysellforcash.blog/2017/10/13/getting-into-wholesaling-real-estate

    Hello,

    I’m a new blogger and would love some advice on my first post on how to make it better and hopefully by doing this I will be able to network with some people in the same profession and help others that are wanting to get into the real estate business. My blog is mainly going to be focused around real estate investing, wholesaling real estate and the general real estate market for Cincinnati, OH and NKY.

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  27. Hello

    Ok so that is my first post and I have been trying to do daily challenges to get better at writing. It has been a while since I have written anything and I know I can do better work. I’m a work in progress and trying to journal some of the things I have learned in life. I’m afraid of making them too long or too short where is the happy place?

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    1. Hi, I looked at 3 posts. Sometimes I like shorter single paragraph content, but usually prefer snippets to have a theme. Obviously your blog is in the early days so your theme(s) will develop. I liked your longer length fraud post. I certainly wouldn’t worry too much about plagiarism (note: I’m from the UK so I use an ‘s’ rather than a ‘z’!). We all take inspiration from our reading and cultural activities as well as everyday life. Generally if you quote a piece of work say who it’s from, if you quote a person use quotation marks and reference that too. Blogging is, generally, informal writing, and so there are no hard and fast rules for you to follow. If you want to list sources at the bottom of the post or in the body of work it’s up to you. I find work flows better when it’s at the bottom of the page but that is your call.
      I hope this helps. 🙂
      Maybe you’d like to take a look at a recent post of mine?
      https://historianruby.wordpress.com/2017/10/14/fatty-arbuckle-hollywoods-first-sex-scandal/

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    2. One thing I noticed — you’re using a lot of tags 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 3 people

      1. Ooooh thank you I didn’t know that! I figured the total opposite….that more tags would help! Xx

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