Dec 1, 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. Hi everyone and Happy Friday! I started my blog earlier this month after a recent breast cancer scare. This experience helped me realize the misalignment between the work I was doing, how I was spending my time, and the work I actually wanted to do. I was inspired to start my own marketing consulting business tailored to millennial female entrepreneurs who are doing their part at sharing their passions. My first post is focused on this transformative experience:

    How a cancer scare motivated me to start my own consulting business

    Hope you guys can take a look and would love any feedback 🙂 Thanks!

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  2. Hey guys I just posted my very first blog . It’s very straightforward and to the point content about subjects that people don’t wanna talk about hope u guys like it🙃https://fathertina.wordpress.com

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  4. I wanted to know since I’m new, not sure if this is proper. I made a Twitter account for this, do we follow one another? I figured it would help us all get exposure. I won’t put the handle until I know it’s okay. Thanks in advance : )

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    2. 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, not easier, so keep an eye on how many you’ve got.

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    1. Firstly! I automatically felt like I want to follow you because of your site name, secondly I wanted to know who you were right away! But I can’t! your about page is empty! Who are you my friend?!?!? 🙂

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    3. Hi, great start! You may want to look at adding a side bar with tags, categories, archives etc. this will help you ‘file’ your blog posts, help readers locate what they are looking for and promote your site with internet searches.

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    1. Welcome!

      FYI: that link goes to your dashboard, which is private, so people won’t be able to see your site. The simplest way to get the public link is to go to your blog’s homepage and click on the post title. Then, copy the address you see in your browser’s address bar and use that.

      Here’s your homepage: https://bookhaven467773552.wordpress.com/

      Be sure to add your blog’s address to your profile as well — that way, people will be able to click on your name and go right to your blog. You can update that here: https://wordpress.com/me/public-profile/. Right now, your profile has a link that’s not working.

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    2. 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!

      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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    2. 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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  17. Hi there my name is Akyla and this is my First Friday with The Daily Post literally and I would like for everyone and anyone to take a glimpse at my new blog. As I step out into the blogging world I can’t wait to see how the world reacts. Please feel free to send me inputs. Thank you all and enjoy
    https://wp.me/p9qEtz-L

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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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    1. Hi, great start and welcome!
      You have not filled in your about page – bloggers do look at this to find out a bit more about you. As your site grows you will also find it helpful if you have categorised and tagged your posts – this will help readers locate themes they are interested in.
      Hope this helps 🙂

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  23. Hi! I am new-ish to blogging. I am a college senior and my life is super busy. I have tried to start a blog before but I ended up running out of things to talk about very quickly. It wasn’t until yesterday that I realized what the things are that I am passionate about so much that I wont stop talking about it them, which are piano, nutrition/school in general, and reading. So here is my site:

    https://lovelightlife732993210.wordpress.com/

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    2. You don’t have to have a direction yet – you’re still finding your blogging voice! In the process of finding your blogging voice (what you want to talk about, how you want to talk about it, who you are in the blog – it’s more distinct from you in real life than one might think), you’ll find the direction you want to go.

      Perhaps you could start the journey by writing up your About page?

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    1. One thing I noticed — you’re using a lot of tags on 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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