new blogger needs to know how to invite friends to read

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  motleycrew5 · Member · Mar 19, 2008 at 7:42 pm

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  I am new to this whole blogging thing and I wanted to set up a private blog that only friends and family can access (since they are the only ones who care anyhow). I set up the blog but now when I email to tell others about it, they try to follow the link and the address and all they can get to is the wordpress homepage…even the wordpress users can’t find my blog–what am I doing wrong??? Please tell me how to invite friends to read without them having to start blogs of their own, I know there is a way, I used to do it all the time, I just can’t figure it out.

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  lettershometoyou · Member · Mar 19, 2008 at 8:07 pm

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  Why don’t you leave your blog’s address here? There might be a clue there.

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  nikonshutter · Member · Apr 4, 2008 at 2:23 am

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  I have the same question :)

  http://stephenbrunophotography.wordpress.com/

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  raincoaster · Member · Apr 4, 2008 at 5:07 am

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  People you invite have to register with WordPress.com so WP can tell whether or not they’re authorized to read the blog. They do that on the WordPress.com main page, so your invitations are working just fine. They don’t have to get a blog, they can just register a username and that’s fine.