Last updated: August 2026
Global rank: Worldwide · 2026-08
#87,216
AI visibility: Grade D
59
SEO health: Latest audit
0
Visits
74
per month, estimated
Keywords
7
ranking in Google
Organic share
100%
74 organic visits
LLMS.txt
Published
72 lines AI engines can read
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filmschoolrejects.com Web Traffic Statistics
Key findings
- Film School Rejects (Media, Entertainment & Gaming) is ranked #87,216 worldwide in our August 2026 domain ranking, inside the top 100,000, up 718 places from #87,934 in July 2026.
- It is estimated to receive about 74 visits a month from search, 100% of it organic, across 7 ranking keywords.
- Its AI visibility score is 59 out of 100 (grade D), with a published llms.txt of 72 lines.
- Its last technical audit scored 0/100, with "Implement Title and Meta Description" the highest-priority fix.
| Month | Rank | Move |
|---|---|---|
| August 2026 | #87,216 | ▲ 718 |
| July 2026 | #87,934 | ▼ 6,654 |
| June 2026 | #81,280 | — |
| May 2026 | #81,280 | ▼ 10,434 |
| April 2026 | #70,846 | ▼ 3,976 |
| March 2026 | #66,870 | ▲ 1,014 |
| February 2026 | #67,884 | — |
What this company does
Film School Rejects is an online publication dedicated to thoughtful film criticism and hands-on advice for independent filmmakers. The site publishes in-depth reviews, interviews, and technical breakdowns that help readers understand both the art and craft of cinema. Its audience ranges from casual movie lovers to working directors, editors, and screenwriters who need real-world guidance. The editorial team focuses…
Our read on the site
The SEO health of filmschoolrejects.com is critically lacking, with missing essential on-page elements such as title, meta description, and headings. Additionally, there are significant technical issues including the absence of a viewport meta tag, robots.txt, sitemap.xml, and a favicon, which hinder the site's perform…
filmschoolrejects.com Traffic and Visitor Engagement
Search engines send filmschoolrejects.com an estimated 74 visits a month. Effectively all of it is organic — about 74 visits from unpaid results. Spread across 7 ranking keywords, that averages roughly 11 organic visits per keyword.
Monthly visits
74
Latest estimate
Change
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It starts building from the first scan
Organic visits
74
100% of all traffic
Paid visits
0
No paid search detected
Organic vs paid
100%
0%
We don't hold a month-by-month history for this domain yet.
The traffic dashboard builds one from the first scan onwards.
filmschoolrejects.com AI Visibility
filmschoolrejects.com scores 59 out of 100 on our AI visibility scale, grade D. It takes full marks for LLMS.txt. The biggest gap is SEO health, at 0 of 20 points (0/100), worth 20 points if closed. It also loses points on Crawlability (0/10), Company profile (19/25) and Structured data (0/5).
Grade D
Scored from this domain's own data — llms.txt, profile completeness, technical health, crawlability and structured data.
Present
6/8 core fields
0/100
robots ✗ · sitemap ✗
Not detected
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filmschoolrejects.com LLMS.txt
The llms.txt on filmschoolrejects.com runs to 72 lines (4,199 characters) across 12 sections, last generated in May 2026. It introduces the site as "Film School Rejects". It tells AI engines the business works in Film Criticism, Filmmaking Education and Independent Cinema. It describes 3 products, with prices such as FSR Newsletter at Free and Festival Submission Toolkit at $29. Services it lists include Sponsored Article Placement, Technical Consulting and Workshop Hosting. The audience it names is Film students, independent filmmakers, cinephiles, aged 18-45 (Global). Technologies it mentions include WordPress, Google Analytics and Cloudflare. The keywords it claims start with "film reviews", "indie films", "filmmaking tips" and "cinematography techniques".
Status
Published
AI engines can read it
Lines
72
In the file
Size
4.2K
Characters
Sections
12
Updated May 16, 2026
What the file says
# Film School Rejects ## About Film School Rejects is an online publication dedicated to thoughtful film criticism and hands-on advice for independent filmmakers. The site publishes in-depth reviews, interviews, and technical breakdowns that help readers understand both the art and craft of cinema. Its audience ranges from casual movie lovers to working directors, editors, and screenwriters who need real-world guidance. The editorial team focuses on indie releases, festival discoveries, and emerging voices rather than mainstream blockbusters. Readers return for clear explanations of cinematography choices, editing rhythms, and narrative structure that actually apply to their own projects. The platform also covers distribution strategies, festival submission tactics, and marketing approaches that smaller productions can afford. Over the years the site has built a reputation for honest critique without industry gatekeeping. Its long-form essays often become reference material in film school classrooms and on set. The brand name itself signals an outsider perspective that values creative risk over polished studio formulas. Film School Rejects maintains a consistent voice that balances academic insight with practical tips. The team regularly updates its archive so newcomers can find evergreen resources on lighting, sound design, and post-production workflows. Partnerships with fes
Sections in the file
Areas of work
Keywords it claims
Technologies
Products it tells AI about
- FSR NewsletterFree
- Filmmaker GuidesContact for pricing
- Festival Submission Toolkit$29
Services it tells AI about
- Sponsored Article PlacementContact for pricing
- Technical Consulting$150/hour
- Workshop HostingContact for pricing
Competitors it names
Audience it targets
Film students, independent filmmakers, cinephiles · 18-45 · Global
Company type
Private
filmschoolrejects.com Organic Keywords
Google lists filmschoolrejects.com for about 7 keywords, which together bring an estimated 74 organic visits a month.
Ranking keywords
7
Found in Google for this domain
Visits they bring
74
Estimated organic visits a month
Top ranking keywords
No ranked-keyword data cached for this domain yet.
Ranked Keywords pulls the full list on its first run.
What it ranks for
filmschoolrejects.com SEO Audit
The latest technical audit of filmschoolrejects.com scored 0 out of 100 overall. The audit makes 20 recommendations in all, and 4 of the 4 listed first are rated high priority or critical.
Overall
SEO
Performance
Accessibility
Fix these first
- CriticalImplement Title and Meta Description
- HighAdd H1 and H2 Tags
- HighCreate a Robots.txt File
- HighGenerate a Sitemap.xml
16 more recommendations, with the exact changes and the pages they apply to, are in the full report.
filmschoolrejects.com Competitors and Alternatives
Film School Rejects's company profile names indiewire.com, rottentomatoes.com, theverge.com and vulture.com as competitors. Its own llms.txt adds slashfilm.com and collider.com. Outside its market, the domains ranked closest to it in our worldwide ranking are belgianhosting.be, dubaicityofgold.com, glisten.org and witchform.com.
filmschoolrejects.com Company Profile
Film School Rejects is an online publication dedicated to thoughtful film criticism and hands-on advice for independent filmmakers. The site publishes in-depth reviews, interviews, and technical breakdowns that help readers understand both the art and craft of cinema. Its audience ranges from casual movie lovers to working directors, editors, and screenwriters who need real-world guidance. The editorial team focuses…
Founded in 2006 (about 20 years ago), Film School Rejects is based in Los Angeles, United States. Its workforce is listed as between 11 and 50 employees. Its profile files it under Media, Entertainment & Gaming, with further tags for Education & Training, Film Criticism and Filmmaking Education. Total funding on record is Bootstrapped. Its tagline reads: "Independent film analysis and practical filmmaking resources".
- Sector
- Media, Entertainment & Gaming
- Headquarters
- Los Angeles, United States
- Founded
- 2006
- Employees
- 11-50
- Revenue
- Not Disclosed
- Funding
- Bootstrapped
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