Well, today is the one year anniversary of launching MichaelMackie.com. It was quite the undertaking, believe me. I didn’t realize all the intricacies of putting together a professional website. It really started off as a lark. I wanted a venue where I could write (or not write) whatever I wanted. I needed an outlet to be clever, witty, bitter or snarky, and FaceBook just WASN’T cutting it.
So I approached my friend (and former co-worker) Jamon Abercrombie and asked him to help a brother out. I gave him the color scheme and overall idea … and he ran with it. Brilliance followed one week later. Jamon knows how incredibly vain I am … and if he didn’t, he certainly got the memo early on. My website is a perfect little slice of me. Thanks, Jamon. I owe you one … or 25,000 … which is how many hits I’ve gotten in the past year.
It took awhile for my website to take off … ahem, despite shameless, blatant self-promotion. I noticed that a random smattering of my blogs were getting an unusual amount of traffic in the first few months. Oddly, thanks to Google, two or three specific blogs got hits from all over the country. Here are the links below: (Can you link from your website TO your website? Gosh, I hope so, it had better not create a tear in the fabric of the universe!)
https://www.michaelmackie.com/theres-gonna-be-an-evolution
https://www.michaelmackie.com/dont-touch-me-im-english
https://www.michaelmackie.com/my-editor-is-on-his-period-again
I’d like to give a shout out to Canada (specifically Ontario and Winnipeg) who check out my website frequently. And Queensland, Australia too. I don’t know anyone in any of those cities, but thanks to the miracle of the internet they found me. Yeah, I’m kind of a big deal.
So here’s to my second year of meeting and greeting famous people … and writing to my little heart’s content. I promise big things in the upcoming months for my adoring reading public. Thanks for all your feedback, notes, comments and suggestions, and by all, I mean, my parents.
Here’s to 50,000 hits before Spring Break!