It's been a while - a quick catch up

So much has happened since this my first foray into blogging turned into such a disheartening exercise. Even now, two weeks later if you were to go to google and search on "Taming The Blog Monster" nothing would be found.
Nor does a Google search of "blog-monster-taming" (the blog URL) return anything.
I DON'T understand !
Anyhow, I've done a whole lot more research (hours and hours and hours) on keywords, urls, adwords analyser, wordtracker, abakus, resultsgenerator and more, finally coming up with what seemed like good keywords for an adsense attractive URL
I put it all together last night as
http://digital-video-security.blogspot.com only to find that as soon as the blogspot.com bit gets added, all the relevant adsense ads get replaced by blog-related ads ! Grrrrrr !
Think I'm frustrated ? You're right ! I'm currently NOT understanding this thing.
I only wish I had recourse to someone who has been-there-done-that to get some one-one-one mentoring on how to get started in this blogging scene.
I'm going to TRY and contact one of the authors of "Bloggers Guide To Profits" or "The Blogging Cash Machine" or "The Blog And Ping Tutorial" all of which are brilliant step-by-step ebooks but obviously I'm missing something along the way.

I was going to monetize my new blog tonight but it's not showing up on the search engine yet either so not much point in rushing the adsense thing till I can get some traffic !

I found a brilliant forum over the last few nights as well. I'm already a member of the Adword Mentor Forum but that's pretty specific to Adwords whereas this new one Digital Point covers EVERY aspect of e-biz and seems to be VERY active. I've already joined up.