Oct 20, 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. I really enjoyed your article. The thoughts on your about page are inspiring. My favorite part is “with the hopes of waking up and feeling a little more present in this world”. We all spend most of the day thinking and regretting the past or worrying about the future, but where is the NOW? Lost in pitiful thoughts… Your blog is going to be amazing. Smiles and hugs.

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    1. First off, welcome tot he Word Press blogging community, Jan.
      I hopped over to take a look at your blog and read your post. I can understand why you are nervous about approaching strangers and opening a conversation. Perhaps you should think about the famous quote, “A stranger is just a friend I haven’t met yet.” 🙂
      I see your post is Uncategorized. But you’ll find as you blog more that Categories & Tags are very useful. Categories and tags tell readers what you write about — but they also become your blog’s filing system. this is important when you have a few hundred posts done.

      You can create Categories & Tags when you blog each post. For example, if you create a Personal & Reflections categories for this post, it will send your post to the Reader so others searching in the Personal & Reflections tags will see your title and a few lines of your post. Some bloggers may only use tags; it’s up to you. Both go to the Reader. (An Uncategorized post goes NOWHERE so no one can find it and read it.)

      For more ideas on Categories and Tags, check this out: https://wordpress.com/tags/

      Note: Word Press doesn’t want us using more than fifteen C&Ts in total. In most cases Categories are the larger groups (Education); tags are the lesser subjects (like science, children, students, sports, etc). Check out what others have done for their posts and you’ll get more ideas.

      All the best!

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    1. Thanks for posting. It is so hard to find connections as a mother, even with other mothers who are in desperate need of connection (which still makes no sense to me). I am always thrilled to read from people who write with candor.

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  24. I’m brand new to this whole blogging thing. I’m not really sure if I’m blogging? I’m a poet and have been working solely via Instagram for a while, and decided to expand and increase visibility, I guess. Thank you for any reads and advice….I have no clue what I’m doing.

    The Artist

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    1. I really liked your poetry and look forward to reading more. I am a new blogger as well, and am just getting used to the techo stuff. If you go into the Site Pages section, you can input some information into your About and Contact pages. Also if you go into the area that allows you to customise your Theme, you can edit your Widgets and add a follow widget. Good luck with all that.

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