My Web Toolkit: Rand Fishkin

Posted March 5th, 2015 in Interviews. Tagged: , , , , .

Last time we have interviewed the creator of Crazy Egg, KISSmetrics and Hello Bar. Today we present you a SEO Guru.

Rand Fishkin is best known for creating Moz (former SEO Moz) – a popular SEO platform offering inbound marketing software, tools and resources.
He also co-founded inbound.org – the community for marketing professionals.

Rand is very popular because of his blogs, where he shares his great knowledge: the official Moz Blog and his personal Rand’s Blog.
I guess you might have heard of Whiteboard Friday – a series of short videos, full of valuable insight, made by Rand and his colleagues.

Rand lives and works in Seattle. Privately he travels a lot with his charming wife Geraldine, who describes their journeys on her blog.

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Rand’s Top Web Apps

Here are the top web apps Rand Fishkin uses and recommends:

  • gmailGmail“for almost everything in my life, personal and professional”
  • 7Geese7Geese“for intra-company OKRs, 1:1s, feedback, etc. at Moz”
  • MozFresh Web Explorer“for tracking mentions and links about myself, Moz, and projects I care about; it’s vastly superior to Google Alerts”
  • followerwonkFollowerwonk“for Twitter analytics, connecting to new people, and improving my use of Twitter (which is my primary social network)”
  • googleanalyticsGoogle Analytics“for web analytics”
  • surveymonkeySurveyMonkey“for designing surveys, collecting data, and aggregating feedback”
  • bitlyBitly“for tracking my social sharing”
  • wistiaWistia“for my Whiteboard Friday videos”
  • pocketPocket“to collect articles I read later (usually on plane flights)”
  • .@randfish Top Web Apps: @Gmail, @7geese, FreshWebExplorer by @moz, @followerwonk, @GoogleAnalytics, @SurveyMonkey, @bitly, @wistia, @pocket

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Web Apps Rand is involved in

“All the Moz tools – yup! But none of the others.”

How does Rand find his apps?

“No specific blogs, but I do follow a number of folks on Twitter and Google+ who occasionally mention new tools/apps I try. For example, I found Conspire.com via Google+ and love it.”

That’s it.
Stay tuned for another “My Web Toolkit” interview!

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