May 8, 2018 / First Friday

First Friday

The pool’s closed for maintenance this week — see you next Friday!

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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. 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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  5. Welcome to the wonderful world of WordPress! May your blogging adventures be robust with excitement and new connection. I always love engaging with others through blogging and I am eager to peruse your writing!

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  7. Hello! I’m a blogger who’s passionate about genetics and GMOs. I made this site so I could extend my learning, help my genius hour project and to help teach people about genetics. I could really use some help, since nearly nobody visits me except friends and I’ve been going through a long session of Writer’s Block. Please visit my site and post your thoughts and suggestions!
    http://www.geneticlearning.wordpress.com
    -Genetic Learning

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    1. Hi! I really enjoyed your first post 🙂 Have to admit I am not a fan of the ‘no capitals’, but I’m sure I’ll get over it 😉 I couldn’t find a ‘like’ button, maybe add that in? Looking forward to you next post

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  11. Hii Aspirants!!! I’m new to this place….Really loving the experience like HarryPotter in Diagon Alley.Hope you guys guide me like Hagrid and make an exciting trip
    Suggestions are Welcome!!!will be waiting for the letters from you guys
    hope it will fill the house

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  20. This is my first post and its like chasing an advneture because I dont have any friends or any one I knew has blog …My first blog is about #METOO campaign going in INDIA..Read It.. Suggestions please, very new to the blogging full confused..

    https://ahappysoularoma.com/blog/

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    1. Your blog is well-written and informative. I didn’t know anything at all about the army before I read it, yet I was still drawn in, as you explained everything well.

      What I would like to have read more about is why you decided to leave the army? Because you say that you came back from your deployment feeling energized and you fully considered staying in the army – but then you decided to leave. For me, that’s a big turn-around! I kind of want to know more about how you made that decision.

      Maybe that could be a topic for your next post?
      Sahara.

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      1. Sahara – thanks for the feedback!

        Leaving the Army was a gut wrenching and extremely emotional decision that my wife and I made together. I’m still not quite sure exactly how to explain it. I will certainly try on a future post.

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