As Search Engine Land's Executive News Editor, Matt is responsible for managing the site's daily news coverage. He's been writing for Search Engine Land since February 2007, first as a contributor to the Small Is Beautiful column, then joining the site as Assignment Editor in September 2008. He's also the editor of our sister site, Sphinn.

Matt has provided SEO consulting to some of the biggest companies on the web, and continues to consult/train a few small business clients on matters such as SEO, social media, and local search. He began doing SEO around 1999/2000 -- back when Google was just a baby, and you were hot stuff if you could figure out how to get a site to rank well in both Lycos and Excite. Matt is a regular speaker at search marketing conferences across the country, and has been interviewed by the Wall Street Journal, USA Today, Inc. magazine, and several other media outlets. He writes the popular Small Business Search Marketing blog, and can be found on Twitter at @MattMcGee and/or on Google Plus.

Matt is married and has two children. In his free time, he runs a well-known independent web site about the rock band, U2, and has published a book about them, too, called U2 - A Diary. The second edition of that book is due for release in 2011.

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• Google’s March Updates: Anchor Text, Image Search, Navigational Search & More
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• Google’s Gags Go Worldwide For April Fool’s Day 2012
• Will Pending Layoffs Put Final Nail In Yahoo Search?
• Google Says Panda 3.4 Is ‘Rolling Out Now’
• Move Over, Wikipedia: Amazon May Be The King Of Google Rankings
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• Video: Google’s Susan Wojcicki Keynotes SMX West 2012
• Microsoft’s Photosynth App Goes Worldwide After 6 Million US Downloads
• SearchCap: The Day In Search, March 9, 2012
• SearchCap: The Day In Search, March 8, 2012
• SearchCap: The Day In Search, March 2, 2012
• Bing Testing New, Google-y Local Search Results
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• Google Confirms Panda 3.3 Update, Plus Changes To How It Evaluates Links, Local Search Rankings & Much More
• SearchCap: The Day In Search, February 24, 2012
• Yahoo Working On Search Across Devices
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• Google Moves AdWords Help Forum To AdWords-Community.com
• SearchCap: The Day In Search, February 17, 2012
• SearchCap: The Day In Search, February 15, 2012
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• DuckDuckGo Has Its First Million-Search Day
• Why The Wikipedia/Google Search Results Study Is Flawed
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