Apr 27, 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.
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    1. Hi there, you don’t have an About page in your blog, that’s quite important as people want to find out more about you, for example especially when you’re giving out advice about wearing contact lenses. Also, WordPress is a very global platform, in your first post, is that USD, AUD, Singapore $ or Hong Kong $? That makes a look of difference. Good luck!

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  11. Hey. I was recently diagnosed with bipolar ii disorder, and I’ve struggled with depression for a lot of my life. I’m writing a blog and a series of short stories to help people with depression and social anxiety. If you’re interested head over and subscribe to my site! http://cleanexpression.com/

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    1. Hi there, welcome to WordPress. You may want to add an About page to your blog so people can find out more about you. Also, you have photos in your posts, it would be better to slot them in between the text to it breaks up the post it chunks to make it easier to read. All the best

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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. Hi, great start! I suggest adding an About page so that other bloggers can learn more about you.
      Also, it would be better to post excerpts of your blog posts for as your blog grows it will be tiresome for your readers to keep scrolling.
      Hope this helps 🙂

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  19. Welcome to all the new bloggers
    I’m looking for something related to technology, creativity and lifestyle.
    If any of you have something related to taste then please send me your links coz I’m dying to read them out.
    Happy blogging
    😊😊

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  21. Hi everyone! I joined the WordPress community yesterday and my blog will be multifaceted. The first one is about my personal struggle with concussions and about fueling support for others but my next one will be more comedic. Looking forward to reading others!

    https://alwaysaelah.wordpress.com/

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    1. If you have any suggestions or tips for my blog I would apriciate any help, as I just start to learning how to make it and probably don’t know some essentials what should be done and I have no clue about them 😥
      Thank you all for support, that is really great deal for me to hear from you. I love this community so far and I would like to thank all of people who already helped me ❤❤❤

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    1. Hello, I just went through your site and it’s beautiful. I hope you will be able to find a community here to support each other. Perhaps you can use keyword to look up similar blogs. Also, you can consider to add an “About Me” page. Basically to copy your first post there so that it won’t get lost after you have posted many postings. All the best to your blogging!

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    2. Hi, you’ve a lovely picture of a cutie-pie but I couldn’t really see it due to the words across the screen. I couldn’t really read the words as they sort of blended into the background picture which is a shame.
      It might be worth looking at so that more people can enjoy your blog.
      Hope this helps 🙂

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    2. Hi, Just checked out your site. Your contact page and home page both have the contact page information. You may want to look into that?
      Read your post! Good start!:)

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    1. Hi, a good start. Perhaps you can add an “About me” page to introduce yourself and your site? Also on your home page, when you have many posts, it would be a bit hard to keep scrolling down to see them. Some kind of structure or links for people to quickly goto an article would be nice.

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