Assignment: Blogging, SEO, project management.

Project: Burbanked Movie Blog – news, insight and snark from a former Hollywood insider

Challenges: Research and create user-engaging blog content on a regular basis. Continuously improve search engine rankings in a popular online category. Develop and maintain online blogging network.

Results: I have systematically improved the search ranking of this site, moving it from page 58 of Google search results for “movie blog” up to as close to the top as page 4 or 5 – purely through efforts of Search Engine Optimization (SEO).

Sample Posts:

• Miserably obvious movie marketing: the Ghosts of Girlfriends Past trailer.
• My humiliation lasted longer than Six Days, Seven Nights.
• Hollywood romance movies and the infidelity double standard.
• I am a walking movie cliché.

Testing the “more” tag on the new site theme here…

I spent nearly a decade toiling in semi-obscurity in the development trenches of the Hollywood studio system, most of that time at Warner Bros. where I read roughly 14,238 screenplays and enjoyed about 20 of them. I played a small but critical – critical! – part in the development and production of about three movies.