Writing for me has always been an important way to document the journey, integrate new learning, and talk into the ether when no one else was around to listen.

Today, I did most of lesson 3 in the action plan. Some of these things, I've read/heard before, but there was a lot of dimension here. I got as far as identifying 16 niches from DMOZ, but need to find one to drill down to 10 subniches. That will be tomorrow's task

Before I came here, I had experimented with Squidoo and Hubpages. I may even hit the $1 threshold from squidoo next month!. Wow. that's progress. But still I haven't really sold anything . I have a better idea now.

Partly it was niche selection, keyword choice, even the way I structured the article. Some of those articles did get hits from the search engine and I was able to track which key words were used. But now I know even more about what works and what doesn't. Yet, there is a bit of artistry, intuition and luck. Overall, I would say, I have more focus, but I'm sure there will be some trial and error yet to come. 

I also gained some goodies from the forum:

*How to turn a URL into an RSS feeder at Feedage

*Put a tool onto my browser that tells me things such as page rank and top key word searches people are using in hubpages and squidoo (sorry, I don't remember the name of this tool) but also, it installed Alexa as well.