My Web Toolkit: Rand Fishkin
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.
Rand’s Top Web Apps
Here are the top web apps Rand Fishkin uses and recommends:
Gmail – “for almost everything in my life, personal and professional”- 7Geese – “for intra-company OKRs, 1:1s, feedback, etc. at Moz”
- Fresh Web Explorer – “for tracking mentions and links about myself, Moz, and projects I care about; it’s vastly superior to Google Alerts”
- Followerwonk – “for Twitter analytics, connecting to new people, and improving my use of Twitter (which is my primary social network)”
- Google Analytics – “for web analytics”
- SurveyMonkey – “for designing surveys, collecting data, and aggregating feedback”
Bitly – “for tracking my social sharing”- Wistia – “for my Whiteboard Friday videos”
- Pocket – “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
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!
