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Tuesday, March 4, 2014

I knew I could now apply to the Amazon and HubPages Earnings program so I started with the HubPages Earnings first. I clicked on the link to apply on my earnings page since it was now active. It had a few very short questions, I answered these and was excited to know I was all set. I just had to let the traffic come to my site and watch the monthly earnings grow.

I then applied to the Amazon Affiliate program, which now had an active link on my earnings page as well. It brought me to a page with suggested answers to questions that will be given on the Amazon Affiliate site. I chose, â€œGet Startedâ€ at the bottom of the page and was brought to the Amazon Affiliate website. Here you can sign in with your Amazon username, unless you need to create an account, which you could do at this step too. Fill in the questions honestly and to the best of your knowledge and, ofcourse, with the answers given to you on the HubPages application page. This step was so simple and I was done before I knew it. The only thing I was confused about was all the directions on banners, links, etc on the Amazon site. You can ignore these notifications as a HubPage writer because you are given a Amazon Capsule on your tools panel when creating hubs.

Youâ€™ll need to now go into all of your current hubs and upgrade them for these Amazon earnings. Choose the Amazon capsule and add a product by either clicking on the choice for a specific product or to search by keyword. A convenient way to search for products is by opening a new tab with amazon.com and searching relevant items to your hubs there. You can then copy and paste the URL into the hubs capsule for that specific item to have it show on your profile.

Thus far, Iâ€™m about 4 days into my HubPages and Google AdSense activation and I have a total of $2.50. Ok, itâ€™s not a lot but itâ€™s a start. I need to continue writing quality hubs and continue with my social networking to create traffic to my profile. I hope this hub was informative and helpful for those just starting out either writing on HubPages or as an online writer in general. Happy hubbing!

Update: I just received a new Accolade today: the Popular Among Readers Award. This is measured by feedback given by other hubbers. I'm liked among my fellow hubbers and it feels great! Thanks Everyone!

Ubersuggest is a wonderful site for getting suggestions on what to write if you are struggling to come up with suggestions for your next article for your blog, website or hub on HubPages. You can also use it to come up with suggestions related to articles you have already written or to come up with a new niche for your articles.

The Keyword Tool in Google AdWords allows you to check the traffic that your suggestions could get as well as how valuable the advertising could be that your page will carry. You can also use it to identify further similar keywords that may get better traffic through SEO as well as identifying keywords and long tail keywords that you can use in the content itself.

Finally we used Google Search to gather more suggestions and also to check the sites that yours would be potentially competing against to determine if your article could be successful. You can also look at the competition to identifying gaps in what they present which may give you further ideas on what to write.

I do hope that you have found this hub useful and that as a result you have found some suggestions on new content to write and also gained an understanding on how and when to use Ubersuggest, the Keyword Tool from Google AdWords and also new uses for Google Search. Many thanks for reading, please feel free to leave any comments you may have below.