Feb 9, 2018 / 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 M A R I A,
      I can’t help but notice that 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 work, which is sad! If you cut your tags down to the most relevant, you’ll actually draw more readers. Here are some tips on tagging you might find helpful.

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  5. Hi there from way Downunder. I’m an older gal, who is feeling somewhat overwhelmed in a world of amazingly advanced technology, but who is very keen to get ‘blogging’. I’m caught in between the intrigue of delving into the wondrous world of the ‘interweb’ and being frustrated that it is too easy to lose hours and days of ‘real life’ fun and adventure. Hey, at my age they are becoming more precious every new day! Hopefully I can find a neat balance of both, and use this platform to share the adventures. Please join me for a more ‘aged’ view on life and the world as I see and experience it.

    My first blog

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  6. I love this thread and how new bloggers are encouraged to share their first post! I just started blogging a couple weeks ago. I’m a Zumba instructor and so most, if not all, of my blog posts will be relating to Zumba. Here’s a link to my very first post! Hope you guys enjoy! I would love any feedback you might have! Thanks!

    My First ZIN Jam Session

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  9. Congratulations! You published your first well over a month ago.

    You’re ready to move on to the Community Pool, where the water is fine and the members of the community are lovely. Bloggers of all stripes and levels of experience are welcome to comment there and ask for feedback and advice on their blog. All the best!

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