Mar 9, 2018 / First Friday

First Friday

Brand 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.
  • When commenting, avoid copying and pasting the same response repeatedly. It makes it look like you’re not really paying attention. Not to mention, it’s spammy.
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  7. Hello! this is probably the last time I can comment on here as I’ve been blogging for one month now! here is my blog:
    https://mariagoundryblog.wordpress.com/
    I blog about lifestyle,fashion, my own art and poetry and various things which interest me
    Would love if you could check it out and let me know your thoughts 🙂
    Maria xx

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  9. Hey everyone, I’ve seen a couple of very disturbing posts today. There are at least two “new bloggers” who are asking people for alternative contact details such as Facebook and Gmail in the comments. One blog barely has an about me, the other has a load of posts that look cut and pasted from an admissions site and all the comments are from the blog owner themselves.
    Please be careful about giving out your personal info. You expect scammers on Facebook, Instagram etc, it gave me quite a shock seeing them here hence the timely reminder!!

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    2. We moderate this space heavily and I’ve warned one commenter about staying on topic and have deleted subsequent comments of a similar nature. I check every single link posted in this forum, though if I’ve missed something, please do point me in the right direction!

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    1. Hi there! Great start, your site looks good. May I suggest that on your home post you do a little “about me” as this is the first thing readers see and will determine whether they continue reading 🙂

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  13. Welcome, all-new bloggers😆! I am so very 😊 that you have joined the WordPress blogging community; May I wish each and every one of you the very best of 🍀 in your beginning blogging adventure! With 💘-JW

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    1. Congratulations! You published your first post more than 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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  17. Nice to see all the new bloggers here today. It’s like seeing new students on the 1st day of College. Welcome to all and have a great time blogging. It’s a fun thing to do. Good Luck!!!

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  20. Hi All,

    Invite you to read, like,comment and follow my book review blog, where I plan to note down three best things I like about any book which I could read completely.
    https://goodnessofbooks.wordpress.com/2018/03/09/you-can-heal-your-life-louise-hay/

    Hope you will like it.

    This is my last week in First Friday as I will be completing a month of blogging this week…. Many of you visited my blog and encouraged in different ways. Thanks a ton for all of that and more.

    To all the people who started blogging or have amazing blogs – Great Work Guys!!! It indeed is an achievement to be able to post regular and be amazing all the time….

    C ya !!

    -Su

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    1. I like how your review is short and precise. Far too many have tried to write a lengthy review when all we need is a decisive push to actually plunge and give the book a chance.

      Maybe what you can add in my opinion is a little of personal touch based on what you think of the book and how it affected you.

      Yours truly,
      Xavier

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  25. Greetings and welcome to the wonderful world of WordPress! I am always eager to connect with other bloggers, especially those dedicated to social activism and equality. Please leave a link below if you are writing for change!

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