Bloggernoob.com wants to inform the readers about the money making opportunities that are found online. The Noob constantly seeks out websites and ventures that make money online. I was talking to the guys over at facemoods.com about the business that they run. Maybe this little Q & A can give you noobs some new ideas or improve upon old ideas.

How much money does facemoods.com make?

Cannot divulge that information. (Bloggernoob figures that facemoods.com does pretty considering that it logged around 7 million users. Even if a small percentage uses it, the services gets a lot of hits per month.)

How does facemoods.com make money online?

Facemoods is a free software, available for download everywhere in the world. We make our money by displaying relevant ads to users. We aim to show ads that give an added value to our users by presenting additional useful information.
Also, we offer an added value through ads on our Facemoods Toolbar. Our toolbar includes some cool features such as a radio where you can save your favorite stations and listen to them directly from the toolbar. It also offers a link to your Facebook profile so you can access various pages of your profile instantly, no matter where you are on the web. And of course, it offers a direct link to the Facemoods Games page.

When was facemoods.com founded? Who are the founders?

Facemoods was founded in 2009 by three entrepreneurs: Arnon Harish, Tamir Carmi and Nethanel Shadmi. Our product, Facemoods, became an immediate hit among Facebook users and the demand was huge from the start. Currently almost 7 million users enjoy Facemoods worldwide. And the rate is still growing at high speed.

How many employees work for facemoods.com?

At present we are 11 employees.

What type of internet marketing strategy does facemoods.com use? SEO? Viral?

Facemoods emoticons are currently used primarily on Facebook. Much of our marketing is run through Facebook, as does much of our contact with the Facemoods community of users. We have a very vibrant Facebook page http://www.facebook.com/facemoods and we keep a very close connection with the community, through wall posts and comments. We announce all our latest emoticons and winks on our Facebook page.
In addition, we have two other apps on Facebook, each one of them is used to add a unique, fun experience to Facebook. One of these is http://www.facebook.com/Supermoods – for posting winks on status updates, and the other is http://www.facebook.com/Funmoods, an app which lets you make fun effects on profile pictures. We use these to offer our users an additional way to interact with users as well as to leverage our marketing.
Other than that, we use SEO, to get a better ranking and increase our online presence. SEO is an important practice for almost every company in the market today.

What is the traffic like for facemoods.com?

The traffic is very good and our ranking is growing fast. We’ve translated the site to 11 languages so our traffic comes from all over the world. We try to keep in touch with users from various countries through our blog so our SEO efforts are extended to different markets.

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Im still in the process of clearing out a lot of junk on this blog. I don’t update Bloggernoob with a lot of new posts, but i still very much work on this site. This blog now has a Google Pagerank of 4. Cleaning up the junk is helping the Noob’s SEO efforts. I think that i was taxed by the big G earlier because of some paid plugs and etc. I wanted to think long term with this blog. The income level on this blog is still very steady. It isn’t a lot but im sure that it’s more then most people ever see with their blogs.

Anyway, Blogger Noob will be more about Search engines. I think that this strategy will give me more passive income. The whole point of growing a site deals with Search Engine rankings. If you want to make money online with your website, you gotta have visitors that find you on Google.

Here is a strategy that i’ve been hammering on about on this blog for ages. Build up your blog or website with your own collection of sites. This “Blog Farming” method works wonders on all sorts of sites. I am able to easily rank well in Google with a new sites because i link to that new site from my older established sites.

You can read my blog farming post to better understand this method. I’ll also do a new update on that post to discuss it in detail.

With this post, i wanted to talk about support your blog or website via article publishing. There are a lot of sites where you can post links to your site. All you need to do is provide some content. This requires a lot of time, but a well written article on one of these sites will yield a lot of Google juice. Meaning, your sites will greatly benefit in the long term. You will have permanent links to your site from Authority sites.

Just write about your keyword specific niche on this sites. Make sure that it is well written and that it provides useful content for people who are interested in that topic. When those pages start showing up on google search results, your site will benefit.

Here is a list to sites where you can submit articles (links).

Squidoo.com
Hubpages.com
EzineArticles.com
Zimbio.com
Gather.com
9rules.com
eHow.com
43things.com
answerbag.com
Yahoo Answers
Wikihow

(The answers or articles that you submit to these sites should have a relevant link to your site.)

This idea doesn’t just stop at answer or article submission sites. You can work your SEO (Search Engine Optimization) efforts on social networking and video sites. Google doesn’t just dig into text and link based websites anymore. They go through a lot of video and social networking sites as well. I think that the whole Facebook privacy change deals with Facebook wanting to control the wealth of content the users put up. So put up niche specific tweets, videos, and friend updates on sites.

Twitter
Youtube
Facebook

Be creative and don’t be lazy. Research similar sites to the ones i’ve mentioned above and rinse and repeat. Noob out!

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Hello newbies! My blog is officially 500 days old. It’s been 17 months since i launched this cheesy blog. (Blog was set up in July 07, but didn’t start working on it till late Oct 07) I haven’t been updating this blog recently. The reason is because i don’t need to. But, i plan on doing some restructuring on this little blog. I plan to do some organizing. Anywho, i wanted to share with you guys my income report. It doesn’t look like much, but this blog is a money maker. This make money online blog has paid for a lot of my tech toys. (I recently bought the Nintendo DSi and a macbook before that. When the next iphone comes out, bloggernoob.com will pay for that as well.) This blog has even paid the rent on several occasions. Word of advice for noobies who are trying to enter this niche. Don’t! It’s is much better to set up a blog that is more fun to update. You can make just as much or more money with a blog about cats. Set up a blog like you would start a new hobby. Write about things and post pictures of things that you enjoy doing even if you didn’t get paid to do it. As far as SEO and internet marketing, you can do the painstaking task of building anchored text links from blogs that you actually enjoy reading. Anyway, some of you might be interested in how much i made here at bloggernoob.com. Read More to Make Money Online »

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