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Maybe, maybe not. Lots of blog posts are after all, but there’s no guaranteed way to be selected. Some blogs are even chosen more than once.
In case you don’t already know, Freshly Pressed is the name of the section on the WordPress home page where they feature new posts. Some are newer than others and some stay on the page longer.
Freshly Pressed on WordPress
To be eligible, you must have a WordPress blog on WordPress.com, not WordPress.org. Five ways to get featured on freshly pressed is a blog post from WordPress support that gives hints and suggestions to improve your chances.
There are a few things about this blog that probably lowers my chances of being selected.
Freshly Pressed Wordle
I’m not a photographer and I prefer to focus on the writing. I have started including more images, mainly because of Pinterest, but I usually use screen shots, Wordle, or something from Zemanta. My husband does take good pictures (including the one at the top of my blog), but do any of them fit my posts?
Fireworks at Disney World - by James M. Rice
My headlines are probably not good enough. I may have boxed myself in a bit by always using a question for my blog post titles, but I prefer to stick with the pattern.
Are my posts original enough? Some of my most popular posts rely heavily on help text, especially the ones about Facebook. Maybe I should write posts about how to use help. The help on Goodreads has improved since I wrote many of my posts about that site.
I tend to pick the tags that make sense to me rather than go with the popular categories, so the people selecting the posts probably won’t even see my posts.
Good Luck! Hope your blog gets freshly pressed some day.
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I love following your blog, so keep writing! Have a Great Day:)
Thank you! This post actually started out as “Do all blog posts need a picture?”
Hiya!! Thanks so much for including me =D Your blog is lovely btw, you’re going to be successful, FP or no!!
Oh, you’re welcome. Thanks!
A question I (and a few hundred thousand bloggers) have asked many times. My “pun-ny” photoblog IS about photos (and captions), but I am still waiting for that stratospheric spike in my daily stats that would tell me, without any other clue, that I was one of the “chosen.”
If I don’t get Freshly Pressed before I die, I’ll be a wrinkled corpse!
I hope so! Thanks for the mention!
You’re welcome. I’m glad I found your post. I thought it was a good idea to include one that highlighted the downside to being featured.
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http://wp.me/p1x6Ui-1C2. Enjoy!
Sandra
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Can you help me for wordpress.com-Freshly pressed??? I changed my blog domen name and this’s problem/My blog’s posts doesn’t seem on Freshly Pressed/ My Old blog’s name is http://ekonomistaynur.wordpress.com/ //And My just blog’s name is http://varamm.wordpress.com/ Plzz help
Only blog posts in English are eligible to be freshly pressed. You can’t make your blog show up in Freshly Pressed, it’s only the blog posts that are selected to be featured. Most blogs will never be Freshly Pressed.
According to changing blog’s name,Do Blog’s posts never seem in az.wordpress.com??? ( http://az.wordpress.com/#!/fresh/ )
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That’s great that they’ve expanded Freshly Pressed to other languages, but they are still hand-picked, only 10 new posts are selected every day.
Hello! I like this content. Especially it’s simply honest and yourself. I’m new in blogging. But I love the imagination in writing more than complementing text with visuals. So, keep it up!
Hope you get freshly pressed! Good luck! I’ve been trying to become freshly pressed but it just doesn’t seem to happen. Check my blog out at: http://internationaleconomicmatters.wordpress.com
I’ve just finished posting an article and would be very grateful if you could vote in the polls. I want as many voters as possible. Check the post out at: http://internationaleconomicmatters.wordpress.com/2013/02/20/do-you-need-your-television/
Thanks.
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I love that photo. Is that a book shop?
Thanks, my husband took that picture. It’s the Hay Castle book shop in Hay-on-Wye in Wales near the border of England.
I want to visit Wales, England and a lot of Europe when I have the money. For now, I’m just dreaming