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5 Strategies for Writing and Publishing Website Posts Consistently

20 May 2011

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There are numerous strategies for writing and publishing website posts consistently. I hear many of would-be bloggers and webmasters complain that they do not have enough time to dedicate to writing posts on their website to make it viable and relevant i.e. posting to it every single day without fail. Posting every day makes your [...]

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How to Write A Blu-ray Movie Review

1 April 2011

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Learning how to write a Blu-ray review for a movie is not complicated. This edification process is basically learning how to write a movie review but also taking into account all the other things that make a movie on Blu-ray a movie on Blu-ray. This basically involves giving your impressions on all the relevant sections of the [...]

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Receiving unsolicited Movie Studio, PR Firm DVDs, Blu-rays, and Promotional Materials

8 March 2011

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Getting on PR Firm and movie studio mailing lists and promoting the films they are publicizing has a natural and unexpected consequence. After doing exactly what you promise to do for a period of time (written about here: Paying your Dues with Film (PR) Firms) they begin sending you DVDs, Blu-rays, and other promotional swag you [...]

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Embeddable Video Players: Website Branding, Digital Logo Watermarks, Ad Options

25 December 2010

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Embeddable Video Players in website posts for video playback by website visitors is an option we’ve all seen and one which movie webmasters utilize daily. Website branding, digital logo watermarks, and ad options are not. Though posting videos is a common practice for movie websites, very few bother to brand their embedded video players, fewer [...]

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Posting Photos and Videos: Permission, Copyright Issues, Infringement, and Liability

28 November 2010

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By posting movie pictures and movie videos, some believe they will incur liability, that they need permission or that copyright issues from property ownership comes into play. I have gotten a few emails from readers recently about using photos, movie posters, and movie trailers in posts so I decided to write a post on the [...]

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My First Official Film Critics Film Screening

10 October 2010

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I attended my first film critics screening for two films: Conviction and Welcome to the Rileys on Thursday, October 7, 2010. Getting there was not simple and I am not just talking about the travel. “Critic (or ‘press’) screenings are held for national and major market critics well in advance of print and television production-cycle [...]

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5 Movie Photo, Celebrity Picture, and Movie Poster Resources

22 September 2010

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Celebrity pictures, movie photos, and movie posters will eventually pop up up on your movie website in some way, form or shape during the course of your film website being online. Film casting stories, movie poster releases, movie photo posts, etc. will all require the images – the visual stimuli – that is the subject [...]

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3 Resources for obtaining DVD/Blu-ray Cover Art and Specifications

26 June 2010

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If you are writing a DVD/Blu-ray article for your film website, whether its a giveaway, an article about an upcoming release or starting a DVD/Blu-ray review website, there are two things that will help sell your articles: cover art and the specifications of the disc in question. Now you are faced with the problem: Where [...]

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How my website went from 4000 Page Views to over 16,000 in a single day

22 June 2010

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Can you predict the future? Is what your writing about popular? Does it have an audience or will it have an audience? Can you predict what will be electric and hotly searched for on the Internet? If you possess Paul Atreides’ prescience ability, you are already a millionaire, if not, you must use what mental [...]

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The 5-11-4 Rule for Posting Content on a Website

19 June 2010

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When is the perfect time to post content on your movie website? At what time during the day? That is a question every website owner will eventually ask him or herself. There is no real meter or gauge as to when this time is. Because of this, a good start point is to look at [...]

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5 Ways to Optimize Images for Increased Pageviews and SEO

15 June 2010

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How to optimize images in a post for SEO and increased pageviews is a question most movie website owners should ask themselves. Thirty to forty percent of the entertainment industry coverage they print will consist of some type of image from a film or a TV Show. We already spoke about Using SEO Optimized images [...]

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Using SEO optimized Images in your Posts to Increase Pageviews

12 June 2010

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A picture is worth a thousand words is an old, popular phrase but within your post a picture is worth a few other things as well. Pictures -  whether on-set, behind-the-scenes, celebrity, exclusives images, regular photos, movie posters, fan art – are a major, visual draw that many movie bloggers do not exploit or exploit [...]

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