With this blog suddenly starting to be read by more and more people, I wanted to kind of start tracking how it’s doing overall, what’s working and how the growth has been. And also report back to you.

Why?

I haven’t done this before, mostly because I really didn’t set out with a big plans other than to learn how to run a blog and make it fun for my friends. But as my friends will tell you, I don’t usually sit around and let things like this stand pat. I love to make them better and better and better.

So a few weeks ago during Thanksgiving, I had a vacation for a week and decided to make some changes here to start focusing more on expanding the reach of A Mike Life. That included joining BloggingZoom, being more active on ShowHype and coming up with a new theme that would be more helpful for what I’m blogging about here.

Now that things are starting to churn and get a bit crazy, I wanted to become a bit more active in tracking it all, just so I can give myself a good gauge on how the blog is doing, and also to help anyone else who is looking to do the same thing.

Blogging isn’t just about ME and what I’m trying to do, it’s about community and others trying to get on the blogging train. If I can help you as well, then I’m doing better than I hoped.