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OK, so I came into Wealthy Affiliate to learn from the best and create a wonderful business and website from the vast and detailed training available here.

I have to admit that sometimes even as an adult you think you know more than you really do. Sometimes you think you've got it all together and others don't know what is going on. Sometimes you think you can improve on something before you even understand it completely.

So here I sit before you all, guilty of all the above. My husband would attest to that fact to, but has reserved himself because I don't often keep my mind open to see the points others are trying to make. OK lesson learned.

At some point last week I came to realize that I may not have understood the fundamental nature of keyword researching. I really thought I knew and went on about the business of building my pages. However, as we all know, sometimes things don't sink in or don't fall into place until we notice something is out of whack.

I have certainly been meticulous in my content writing, often writing rather lengthy articles for the sake of quality. Not to mention I often spend 10-12 hours a day on WA. Those hours weren't just hanging out in the chat rooms, or wallowing on the social websites trying to gain favor, they were real work hours, but still I wasn't getting any outside traffic to my website.

I have been with WA for 3 months now, I should have at least a little to show for my hard work given how much I have ignored my family and sometimes worked through until the morning light. Still I didn't even brush close to my expectations.

So Thursday last week I began combing my thoughts for reasons for not having not succeeded; reassessing my work, my time, my understanding of things. Rethinking how all the training was being pulled together.

Now, I don't know what made me think of it, maybe it was one of the questions that I asked in chat last week. Suddenly that little light in my head went BING; check your keywords. Apparently, I misunderstood how the keyword research and implementation was supposed to work. I have gone to each page, scrolled down to the find the keywords I used, and one by one plugged them into the keyword tool and looked at the details.

"What was I thinking?", was the question I found myself asking for almost every keyword. At this point, I couldn't even tell you, all I know is that I began undertaking a huge task this weekend. I had to re-research keywords, and I use 2 keywords or long tailed keywords on each page, and rewrite content to fit them for each of my pages (that's 19 pages to date).

Obviously, now I have to go back and check out the corresponding keywords in my 40 posts.

So I guess what I am trying to convey here is that although we may failed miserably sometimes, we can react in one of two ways. We can either accept defeat and fold up our cards or we can buck up and take the hard road.

I know many of you have already done this; changing themes and layouts, rewriting content, redesigning your original plans or rethinking your original thoughts about your website as you learn more and have not only taken the hit and recovered but are still here today pushing onward. I say kudos to you.

For those of you who have not had to do this, you should give yourself a pat on the back for having made good choices.

And for those of you who are new to all of this, don't let the "start over" button bring you down. It's not the failing that ruins us, but how we handle those failures that hold us back.

Best of Luck to you all, and even more success.

~Debra