One (1) winner will receive:

- (1) Precious: Based on Novel ‘Push’ by Sapphire DVD

One (1) winner will receive:

- (1) The Stoning of Soraya M. DVD

TO ENTER:

1. Subscribe to ProMovieBlogger by Email.
2. On Twitter, Tweet this message to your followers (I’ve just entered to win Precious/Stoning of Soraya M. U can win by subscribing to ProMovieBlogger and retweet. http://xr.com/predvdcontest)
3. Comment below.

*All three steps must be completed for a valid contest entry.

RULES:

One entry per person. All entries must be in by Tuesday, March 16, 2010 at 11:59 pm EST. Void where prohibited. The Email Subscription (verified and active subscriptions) list will be cross-referenced with the Retweets to determine a valid and random winners. The winners will be notified by email (the email address used for the subscription).

About

Precious: Based on Novel ‘Push’ by Sapphire follows its main character Claireece Precious Jones endures unimaginable hardships in her young life. Abused by her mother, raped by her father, she grows up poor, angry, illiterate, fat, unloved and generally unnoticed. The Stoning of Soraya M. starts with the viewer stranded in a remote Iranian village, where Sahebjam is approached by Zahra, a woman with a harrowing tale to tell about her niece, Soraya, and the bloody circumstances of her death the day before. Her story attempts to expose what it perceives as the inhumanity of Sharia Law. Her last and only hope for justice lies in the hands of the journalist, who must escape with the story – and his life – in order to communicate the violence to the world.

Specs

Precious: Based on Novel ‘Push’ by Sapphire DVD is presented in 16×9 widescreen (1.85:1), along with 5.1 Dolby Digital soundtrack. Extras include audio commentary by the director, three featurettes, a conversation with the author, deleted scene, audition reel, reflections on Precious, and Flourscent Beige. The Stoning of Soraya M. is presented in widescreen, along with 5.1 Dolby Digital soundtrack. Extras include a documentary, director/writers commentary, productuion commentary, and the theatrical trailer.

Robot Meta WordPress Plugin

The Robot Meta WordPress plugin lets you manipulate, augment, and enhance the robot.txt file your movie website possesses or should possess.

This plugin makes it possible (and very easy) to:

• Prevent indexing of your search result pages, while still allowing the search engines to follow the links on them, by adding noindex,follow robots meta tags.
• Disallow indexing of subpages to your homepage, category pages, author pages and tag pages, to prevent duplicate content.
• Prevent indexing of your login, register and admin pages by adding noindex robots meta tags.
• Add noodp an noydir meta robots tags, allowing you to opt out of DMOZ and Yahoo! Directory descriptions.
• Prevent Yahoo! and Google from indexing your feeds by adding a meta tag to their head-section.
• Prevent indexing of just your comment feeds.
• Disable author and date-based archives.
• Prevent attachment pages from ranking in the search results over your articles.
• Enforce a trailing slash on archives.
• Edit your .htaccess and your robots.txt from within WordPress.
• Assign robots meta tags to individual posts & pages.
• Verify your site with Google Webmaster Tools, Yahoo! Site Explorer and Bing Webmaster Tools.
• Add noarchive tags to your blog (Thanks to Henryk Gerlach).

Search for Yourself

Search for your movie website on Search Engines that you want to crawl your website. Once you do, that particular search engine knows of your website’s existence. Take the largest search engine in China for example, Baidu. Since I couldn’t not find a good translation option for the page to search for a blog or website submission option like there is for MSN and other search engines, I simply typed in ProMovieBlogger and searched for my website through its search option. Checking the bots that spider ProMovieBlogger yesterday through Google’s feedburner service, I found that ProMovieBlogger now gets spidered by a Baidu bot. Color me surprised and happy. I do not know for a fact that one caused the other but it can not be a coincidence.

Ask

Send an email to movie directories and websites you feel your content is worthy of.  If your website is accepted, you may receive a favorable return in traffic.

Be Bold

Bold actors’ names in your movie review, the director, screenwriters (if you mention them), etc. Every real person you mention in that movie review that had to do with the film.

These bold names are good for movie post SEO, which in turn are good for Google or Yahoo ad networks ads (if you have them on your movie website).

A New Slant

Italics the names of of other movies if you are referencing them in your movie review or set them apart in some way so the reader knows you are talking about another movie title.

Your Other Content

As mentioned in the how to write a movie review post, interlinking your movie review with other related content through WP Related Posts plugin is a prudent idea. Backlinking within in your movie review to other movie reviews you have written, when appropriate, is also a good idea. Both linking methods will give your site visitors other content to read that they might find interesting. If nothing else, you should get additional pageviews out of it.

Your Category Label

I have seen on many movie websites the category of “review”, not “movie review” or “film review”, just “review”. Though most people that visit your movie webiste know what reviews await them once they click that category, web crawlers, aka spiders or bots, do not. Keep SEO (its very important when someone is searching for movie reviews online and will serve you well if you have an entire section under that or an alike moniker) and your site visitors in mind. Tell them and your audience exactly what type of review that section of your movie website is about. Label it Movie Reviews, Film Reviews, Cinema Reviews, In-Theater Reviews, whatever. The point is: make it clear to all parties concerned.

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The other posts in the Starting a Movie Website series: Introduction, Choosing and Registering a Domain Name, Select a Website Host

We haven’t even been publishing as much as we should on ProMovieBlogger with our movie website taking most of our attention but somehow ProMovieBlogger.com come still got upped by Google recently from N/A (Not Available) aka no Page Rank to a Page Rank of 1.

Our SERP position on Google for “Create a Movie Website” is currently Page 2, up from Page 3 a few weeks ago and for “Start a Movie Website” we are on the Page 1, third link down. WOOHOO. That has a lot to do with a lack of competition for these two search terms which is great for us. We want to rank high for those two particular search terms and will keep hammering them until we are number one on SERPs for both of them and cement those positions after we do.

We also sold our first Movie-Centric Sites Sponsorship on ProMovieBlogger as well. Like we said in the How to Make Money with a Movie Website post, make an Advertise page.