The Gospel According To Rhys - Colwyn Bay North Wales Web blog About Sport, Wrestling, PHP, SEO, Social Media & Networking

As an SEOer, we use Google Alerts to help find linking opportunities on current wares, but as a blogger, Google Alerts does come into it’s own.  You can find new audiences with Google Alerts, as I hope to explain in this post. What is Google Alerts? Basically, Google Alerts is a service that sends you [...]

One thing people ask me is “Rhys? How did you create the pages on Retro Garden such as the Arcade Game Reviews page on your site?”. The answer is simple, all you need to do is do some simple php & template editing. Today I’ll show you how:- Copy page.php file & rename it to [...]

If you listen to Radio 1 (which I now do being the radio station of choice on the wireless in work), or you have friends from North Wales you will have no doubt picked up on the fact that One Big Weekend is this weekend. Two days of live music and acts in Bangor, North [...]

A great link tweeted recently by @clairecarlile & @clemiatguava was this Social Media Marketing List. One of the things was to be a better blog commenter which resonated with me:- Make a ‘must comment’ list. In Google Reader, take the blogs of the top folks in your rolodex and put them in a separate ‘must [...]

Twitter is a great place to hang out, network & promote your blog, but like any successful service, it can be prone to bots. Rather, it is prone to automated twitter accounts posting spam. Spam is bad, but automated twitter accounts aren’t necessarily. A number of great twitter accounts (such as the National Rail Enquries [...]