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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