Troy Phillips

Content Editor

About Troy Phillips:

Troy joined the Galaxy SEO content team full-time in September of 2024, after being part-time since 2021 as a side hustle to his regular job teaching elementary special education. He has two degrees in journalism (B.A., TCU; M.J., University of North Texas), and mistakenly believed at least one of them might lead to a career for life.

Instead, journalism was relegated to secondary pursuit following the newspaper industry's virtual collapse around 2009. He had spent 20 years at the Fort Worth Star-Telegram as a reporter & copy editor before shifting to subscriber-based site/content management with the Rivals.com sports network. After an unprofitable year and a drained severance, substitute teaching seemed a logical next act.

Over the next decade, Troy worked with special needs, autistic, behaviorally-challenged and learning-disabled students, from early childhood to age sixth grade. He's provisionally certified through sixth in general education but put that on pause for more than a decade to play Mr. Mom and stage dad to an only-child daughter. She's now a college senior studying musical theater and hopefully won't live on his couch someday.

He remains a seasonal content consultant for three college football bowl games in D/FW, the Lockheed Martin Armed Forces Bowl, SERVPRO First Responder Bowl, Tropical Smoothie Cafe Frisco Bowl. Among his useless collectibles are years worth of early-2000s Bon Appetit magazines, and nearly every Six Flags Over Texas annual commemorative drink bottle since 2009. Why, no one knows.

Troy has barely ever fixed anything himself at home but has learned much writing or editing for the myriad restoration, cleaning, and other home services providers served by Galaxy SEO. Their reach over all 50 states (or beyond) has stoked his love of geography, and Troy finds a rather twisted fascination over closing tickets heavy on city pages.

He asks that you use uppercase letters only when beginning sentences, for names, proper nouns, acronyms, initials or to begin bulleted items.