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Here at DragonSearch Marketing, we have identified some of the top influencers in the search marketing industry. By profiling said influencers, we are able to follow their best business practices identify the rapid advances in our industry.
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Influencer
Profile:
Rand FishkinCo-Founder, SEOmoz
Co-author, Art of SEO
“Wizard of Moz”
Rand Fishkin
“The Wizard of Moz”
CEO & CO-Founder of SEOmoz (Started it
with his mother)
Education: University of Washington
dropout-left 2 classes shy of his bachelor’s
in order to start SEOmoz
Co-authored Art of SEO from O’Reilly
Media
Rand Fishkin Named on the Pudget Sound Business
Journal’s 40 Under 40 List and Businessweek’s30 Best Young Tech Entrepreneurs Under 30(2009)
His wife, Geraldine, is also a blogger. She blogs about all the trips she gets to go on with Rand. They’re wedding pictures are posted on SEOmoz’s Flickr account. And they’re public.
Favorite Non-Profit: SeeYourImpact.org
Rand Fishkin 1979: Born in Flemington, NJ
1993: First became involved with the World Wide Web while in high school
1995: Began doing web development at Outlines NorthWest
Late 1990s: Began building websites
2002: Started consulting small businesses in the realm of search marketing
2004: Resigned as VP of Internet Marketing at Outlines NorthWest
2004: Began posting content in the form of reports, data and tools to a site that eventually became SEOmoz
2005: Attended first industry conference courtesy of Danny Sullivan
April 2005: Spoke for first time at SES Toronto
December 2005: Authored Beginner’s Guide to Search Engine Optimization, SEOmoz featured in Newsweek
Speaks at OMS, SMX, PubCon, SES
About SEOmoz Search marketing industry’s leading SEO
software provider, serving more than 6,500 paying customers.
Houses 25+ employees, $5.5+ million in revenue (2010) and a community of over 250,000 active search marketers.
Specialties: SEO, Internet Marketing, Startups, Web Apps, Social Media Marketing, Small Business Leadership
Also home to a great SEO blog.
Rand Fishkin
SEOmoz Blog:
http://www.seomoz.org/blog/author/63
Twitter: @randfish
Facebook:
http://www.facebook.com/SEOmoz
Flickr:
http://www.flickr.com/photos/seomoz