Oh man, same here with my old instructor's sectioning rules actually saving me on tricky cuts!

The best advice always comes from people who've been doing something long enough to know what shortcuts aren't worth taking.

Yeah Bob totally saved you from a bad time. Same thing happened to me with a cheap griddle I bought online - the metal was so thin it warped on first use and my neighbor watched me struggle with it before telling me it was junk. He pointed out the gauge was too low for even heat. I felt like an idiot but he was right. Sometimes you just need someone to call it like they see it before you learn the hard way.

Honestly, focusing on one keyword per page makes way more sense than people give it credit for. Google's whole game these days is about understanding the main topic of a page, so when you pile a bunch of random keywords onto one page it just confuses the algorithm and dilutes the signal. A single focused page that actually goes deep on one subject will naturally pick up related long tail traffic anyway, since Google connects those dots on its own. The big affiliate sites might use multiple keywords but they also have massive domain authority and backlink profiles to back it up, which most people starting out don't have. For someone without that kind of weight behind their site, a tight single keyword strategy is a smart way to build real relevance for a specific search term instead of being mediocre at ten different ones. Maybe it's just me but I'd rather rank solidly for one thing than barely show up for a handful of things.

Hurts worse when you check your bank account and see that big charge all at once... I did the same thing with a design software suite I was sure I'd master. Ended up opening it maybe three times before I realized it did way more than I ever needed. Now I always start with the monthly plan even if it costs more per month. That way if I ditch it after two months I'm only out like forty bucks instead of four hundred. Learned that lesson the hard way too many times...