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  cakeandmuffin · Member · Jun 18, 2016 at 4:01 pm

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  How do I invite people to my blog. I also want my blog to target SOUTH Africans. Is the a setting for both of these?

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  timethief · Member · Jun 18, 2016 at 8:02 pm

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  How do I invite people to my blog.

  All that’s required to follow any blog is exactly what you were required to provide to register here, and that is a valid email address that the published posts can be sent to.

  Here subscribers control their own subscriptions and frequency of receipt of posts from sites they subscribe to. We cannot act on their behalf.

  You can set up email subscriptions here > Appearance > Widgets > Follow Blog Widgets by using this guide > http://en.support.wordpress.com/widgets/follow-blog-widget/

  Widgets can be configured to appear only on certain pages (or be hidden on certain pages) by clicking on the Visibility button.
  https://en.support.wordpress.com/widgets/#widget-visibility

  We have a subscription shortcode which you can make use of. The help page on it is right here: http://en.support.wordpress.com/blog-subscription-shortcode/ You can also include the subscription shortcode at the end of every post you publish.

  Staff have recently added the mailchimp widget for subscriptions and here is the link to the guide you must use https://en.support.wordpress.com/mailchimp

  Additional information:
  You can create a Subscribe page http://en.support.wordpress.com/pages/ add and customize a contact form with multiple fields, change the email address where you’ll be notified, and mark feedbacks as spam from your dashboard on that page. http://en.support.wordpress.com/contact-form/

  Read more at https://en.support.wordpress.com/?s=following

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  timethief · Member · Jun 18, 2016 at 8:04 pm

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  I also want my blog to target SOUTH Africans.

  Then assign relevant keywords to your post in your categories and tags.
  https://en.support.wordpress.com/posts/categories/
  https://en.support.wordpress.com/posts/categories-vs-tags/
  https://en.support.wordpress.com/posts/tags/

  WordPress.COM SEO resources that you will want to consult are:
  https://en.support.wordpress.com/search-engines/
  https://en.support.wordpress.com/webmaster-tools/
  http://en.blog.wordpress.com/2013/03/22/seo-on-wordpress-com/
  https://dailypost.wordpress.com/2016/03/10/six-seo-factors-you-should-know/
  http://en.support.wordpress.com/getting-more-views-and-traffic/

  Ebook: Grow Your Traffic, Build Your Blog

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  timethief · Member · Jun 18, 2016 at 8:06 pm

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  See these support docs too:
  Sharing: https://en.support.wordpress.com/sharing/
  Publicize: https://en.support.wordpress.com/publicize/