Mar 16, 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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  2. Good morning and Namaste to everyone from India, welcome to this week’s First Friday.
    I love it when the coffee kicks in and I realise what an adorable badass I’m going to be today, so now you my current mood. You get it ri8? 😉
    To all the new people, Leave your links and I will check them out and leave feedback, also if you use social media then its bonus for me, will follow you there too. Cheers guys  ❤ ❤

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  3. Hey everyone,
    I’m new here!! I joined a few weeks ago, and would love some feedback.
    I blog about books, travel, and fragments of my life.
    omaraaaa.wordpress.com/2018/03/15/four-treasured-works-of-poetry/
    Looking forward to reading everyone’s posts. Thank you. xx

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    2. Goodmorning. I’m looking forward to read new posts from other bloggers. Meanwhile, I published a post recently on the blog on taking better care of your denim. I’m sure you’d learn few things and it’s just a click away on the link below

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      1. Hi @my denim heaven,

        First Fridays is a forum for brand-new bloggers sharing their first published within the last month. You’ve got a fair bit more experience under your blogging belt and so you’re ready for the Community Pool — a forum where bloggers of all stripes gather to request and offer feedback on all aspects of blogging.

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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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    4. I appreciate your perspective about living many lives throughout the course of a lifetime. It is both symbolic and literal and somehow encouraging as well. I’m looking forward to reading more from you.

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    5. Congratulations on your blog and welcome to the blogging community! I left a comment. I would say add an “About” tab and tell us who you are and also add a “follow” button. I was trying to follow you , but I could not find it.

      Great start keep it up 🙂

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    2. Amazing poems and theme of ur blog is also good… It’s a coincidence that we have same name 😂
      It would make my day if follow my blog.. ☺😉

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      3. I love that you started this! I also just started my own chronic illness blog. It takes so much courage to share your story, and I’m so glad you’re going for it!
        If you’re interested, my blog can be found at prettycouchpotato.com ❤ happy blogging!

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    3. Great post! Top tip! Smaller paragraphs are easier on they eyes for reading on screens, it’s something I’ve had to get used to. Also your blog posts are in full on your home page, if you set your posts to excerpts its a little easier for readers – as your blog grows it’s really hard to keep scrolling down the long page. I find using archive and categories in the side bar a really useful tool for me and my readers to find articles to read. Hope this helps 🙂

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      1. This helps a great deal. I am still getting use to navigate the site and customizing my website. It bothered me that it was showing the whole blog post instead of just an excerpt, and I agree it made it hard to navigate. I am so happy that I changed it to just excerpts. And I will definitely make my paragraphs shorter. Thank you for taking the time and helping this new blogger out!

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    5. Thank you. Great blog. I am new and am hoping this will go a little way to help me….and others. Am trying to work it all out myself needing the write my feelings down. Please read and any comments would be great.

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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!

      Liked by 1 person

    2. Thank you. Great blog. I am new and am hoping this will go a little way to help me….and others. Am trying to work it all out myself needing the write my feelings down. Please read and any comments would be great.

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      1. Yeah! Thankyou for taking the time to read my post. Please do leave a comment, i love to know if my readers are surprised or not by my outcomes. I started writing part 2 already, don’t forget to follow, so your notified when i release it.

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    3. Thank you. Great blog. I am new and am hoping this will go a little way to help me….and others. Am trying to work it all out myself needing the write my feelings down. Please read and any comments would be great.

      Liked by 3 people

    3. Thank you. Great blog. I am new and am hoping this will go a little way to help me….and others. Am trying to work it all out myself needing the write my feelings down. Please read and any comments would be great.

      Liked by 5 people

      1. Hello there!

        Please don’t copy and paste the same response to multiple comments — it looks spammy and we generally delete them. If you want to attract visitors, spend some time visiting others’ blogs, reading their posts, and commenting thoughtfully. People are curious about the person who takes the time to really engage with their work and they’ll want to visit you in return.

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    1. Hi I loved your penguin post – I saw this on the news! Also I scrolled into the next post on Serena Williams. Most readers will get bored with lots of scrolling. You can edit your blog to show excerpts only. Hope this helps 🙂

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  25. Good morning everyone, I just posted my first blog ever earlier today and I’m super excited to join the blogging community! I’ll mostly be blogging about my daily life and challenges and how I deal with it all. I hope to spread light, inspiration, hope, and strength through my writings.

    http://infinitysdivinity.com

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    4. Thank you. Great blog. I am new and am hoping this will go a little way to help me….and others. Am trying to work it all out myself needing the write my feelings down. Please read and any comments would be great.

      Liked by 1 person

      1. Thank you so much. I liked your blog and the way you were able to write about yourself in a very real, very honest way.

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