Hey TS It's so cool that you're having a special day with your boys!!
Thanks for the encouraging words...I think my last couple of Hubs are definitely a lot more focused for my interests and potentially generating sales, but it seems like the more I learn there more there IS to learn. LOL
I have found some excellent articles by relache, livewithrichard, and Peter Hoggan (among others) that are teaching me the finer points of using keywords, researching keyword competition, and exploiting "gaps" in keywords...all of which I can TALK about, but haven't really DONE yet...LOL.
I have entered the text of a couple of my hubs into AdWords and seen the resulting lists of keywords. I suppose these are what I should be looking at to guage competition and value - and then incorporate into my text, but sometimes I feel rather lost. If we're on at the same time later, maybe you'd be so kind as to walk me through how you "re-worked" your hubs. Relache recommends getting rid of general or "fluff" tags and replacing them with more valuable, specific tags (they generally seem to have less competition). I think I'm beginning to get the general idea...but putting it into action is another story.
Anyway...this is turning into a forum novel LOL...thanks for suggesting Yoshi-he seems like such a nice guy, I think I'll just pop over and see if I can find the article you're talking about :-)
Hope to see you later.