About Matt McGee

Matt McGee My name’s Matt, and I’m an independent online marketing consultant. While I don’t use this blog to sell my services, I am available for consulting and/or training opportunities with any business or individual that wants some help doing business better online. Contact me and let’s start chatting.

Background

I’ve been helping businesses of all sizes succeed online since the late 1990s, with a specialty in SEO, local search marketing, and blogging/social media. (In other words, if you need help with your PPC campaigns, I’m not your guy.) I’ve consulted for companies as big as Target.com and as small as a mom and pop selling handcrafted wooden pens from their garage. I’ve been surrounded by small businesses my whole life. My dad has been a small business owner since the 1950s. My sister is a small business owner. And my wife, a real estate agent, is also a small business owner.

I began speaking at the Search Engine Strategies conferences in 2006, and in 2007 also began speaking on the Search Marketing Expo series. I’ve spoken at ad:tech, SearchFest, Small Business Marketing Unleashed, and other conferences.

I’ve been interviewed by several media outlets:

I’ve contributed to the books Radically Transparent and Search Engine Optimization: An Hour A Day.

In addition to my consulting and training, I’m the Assignment Editor for Search Engine Land and the Editor of Sphinn. I post regularly on various industry blogs and forums (often under the nickname “pleeker”).

Why Small Business SEM?

As the tagline above says, because not everyone can throw money at the lack-of-online-visibility problem. Small businesses often don’t have the financial resources to put together a substantial plan of attack to improve their web site and increase traffic, conversions, sales, etc. SmallBusinessSEM.com is for small businesses that want to compete and succeed on their own terms (and budgets).