Nov 10, 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. Hey guys am new here and I need some coaching on how to really get started have taken the online course but don’t really get need someone dat I could understand better. @ Griffin need a helping hand pls

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    1. 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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  7. I have seen a lot of great content from you since I started last week, and I see a lot of good post in the comments here as well. I will continue to check every one out 🙂 hope to see a lot of good content to read through! If anyone is interested you can check out my new blog, not much on there yet, and I work a lot, but I plan on posting at least once a week! I would very much appreciate any constructive criticism! Much love to everyone and hope everyone has a great start!! http://jaydreviews.com

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    1. Delete the post titled ‘first blog post’ – that is just a template and you don’t need it now you’ve written some posts of your own. It is appearing at the top of your blog as a featured post. There is a template widget showing too. I recommend the BloggingU courses mentioned by Michelle. I took them when I started my first blog. The courses explain the details and help you build community who will comment on the questions you’re raising.

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    1. A tip — you’re using a lot of tags. 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, rather than easier. Focus on the most relevant ones.

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    1. This looks like a very interesting topic.
      You may want to customise your site a bit more. You still have a text widget on your page and your ‘about’ page is empty. Readers really do enjoy reading about other bloggers and it helps grow your readership. Feel free to take a look at my site to see how I’ve used categories and tags and archives etc.
      I look forward to reading more of your posts. 🙂

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      2. Me too really. Had a little run on writing last summer. Then again in October this year. Really trying to post more regularly and instil some discipline. Unfortunately for me, I seem to write the most between the hours of 11 p.m. and 1.30 a.m. 😦

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      3. Gah… mine posts would be an entire mess that would need to be interpreted if I posted at that time. Normally I write the post between muming, cleaning, physio etc… and I go back to add something and find that none of it sounds any good. Last night I used Tumblr to post one hell of a good blog only to find it ended up on my personal Facebook page and I didn’t want that. I only started blogging last week. Better late to the party than never going hey…

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    2. Welcome 🙂

      I noticed that you still have some placeholder text in your blog’s sidebar, over to the left 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. Welcome!

      The background image of the hearts makes your post very difficult to read — if you switch to a solid color, you’ll have more luck getting readers to stick around. You can update that in My Site > Customize > Colors & Backgrounds.

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  18. Friday already!?! this week has gone so fast. I can’t believe how much i am enjoying blogging. I’m finding it really healing. i didnt think it would be at all. Did anyone else feel the same? Please check out my blog and see what you think x

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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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  25. Ok, well I’m like a baby at this compared to all of you. I’ve been wanting to do this for a while but felt uncomfortable. Way out of my comfort zone, but was the worst that can happen? Right? Lol. I hope one day I can be as good as some of you. Here is my link https://asimplegirlsdailylife.wordpress.com/2017/11/09/to-write-or-not-to-write-that-is-the-question/
    And thanks for the welcoming comments, it makes this a little less uncomfortable. 🙂

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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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      1. Michelle, thank you for pointing it out. I will definitely keep my tag count in check, I didn’t know these measures. Can you tell me how to increase my follower counts?

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