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Rand Fishkin @randfish.bsky.social · 8h

Are you also obsessed with the skull weapon? Don't get me wrong, the black coat is great too, but that skull is just 🔥

Rand Fishkin @randfish.bsky.social · 9h

In just under two years, the cofounder of a Codesmith competitor managed to nearly destroy the company.

How? He became the moderator of a learn-to-code subreddit and posted relentlessly, took down competing posts, and weaponized the sub against them: larslofgren.com/codesmith-re...

INSANE

The Story of Codesmith: How a Competitor Crippled a $23.5M Bootcamp By Becoming a Reddit Moderator

Let’s say you decide to start a coding bootcamp. Your background is in pedagogy and you love teaching. Your parents were teachers. You find a co-founder, raise a bit of money, and pour your soul into ...

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Rand Fishkin @randfish.bsky.social · 10h

Narrator: "He did."

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Rand Fishkin @randfish.bsky.social · 1d

Woot! Yes, will be sending emails about that soon ❤️❤️❤️

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Rand Fishkin @randfish.bsky.social · 1d

I'll send you an email 😎🤜🤛💯

Rand Fishkin @randfish.bsky.social · 1d

I like this service and will be using it

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Lianna Patch @punchlinecopy.com · 1d

your occasional reminder that you can pay me to lovingly tear apart one page of your website: punchlinecopy.com/jab/

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Rand Fishkin @randfish.bsky.social · 2d

It's so self-referential.

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Rand Fishkin @randfish.bsky.social · 2d

So damn cool. And you're a great writer Heather!

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Rand Fishkin @randfish.bsky.social · 2d

Pretty proud of this About/Contact Us page

(for an upcoming side project that, hopefully, launches next week)

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Rand Fishkin @randfish.bsky.social · 2d

Not sure when this will come crashing down, but it will.

Maybe this is what everyone means when they say "AI will take jobs?" - like... the AI isn't replacing jobs, but the AI bubble will be a force of massive economic destruction that ripples through markets for years.

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Rand Fishkin @randfish.bsky.social · 5d

@everywhereist.bsky.social had just one complaint which is that it's so similar to Hades 1. But hey if it ain't broke...

Rand Fishkin @randfish.bsky.social · 6d

13 days left.
46 tickets remaining.
sparktoro.com/sparktogether

SparkTogether 2025 - October 16 - Seattle, WA

The original story-focused marketing event. Tell-all sagas. Real numbers. No recordings. Finally, in person.

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Rand Fishkin @randfish.bsky.social · 6d

My friend, @wilreynolds.bsky.social runs an 8-figure agency. Last year, he lost his entire marketing team. Uh-oh.

What does he do?... Take it over personally, and somehow manages to 10X their results.

Hear him tell the real story, with numbers, NO RECORDING, at SparkTogether Oct 16. 👇

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Trish Carey @trishcarey.bsky.social · 7d

Make Something People Want to Talk About - SparkToro

In my formative years as a tech entrepreneur, Paul Graham (cofounder of YCombinator), wrote a seminal essay entitled: Be Good. Most tech folks have

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Rand Fishkin @randfish.bsky.social · 7d

doc.searls.com/2025/10/01/w...

"...today Substack (announced they are) a social media app. My instant response was a mix of Huh? and Yuck. Because I thought they were a form of blogging... Calling Substack “a social media app” is, at least for me, a huge downscale move."

Why I am Here Instead of Substack

This blog is mine. While it is hosted somewhere, it could be anywhere. The main thing: it isn’t on a platform, and doesn’t have to be. I publish it on my own, and syndicate it through R…

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Rand Fishkin @randfish.bsky.social · 7d

NEW 5-Minute Whiteboard: sparktoro.com/blog/make-so...

Making something people want isn't enough.
Making your product better isn't enough.
Making the best product isn't enough.

What works? Make something people want *to talk about*. 👇

Make Something People Want to Talk About - SparkToro

In my formative years as a tech entrepreneur, Paul Graham (cofounder of YCombinator), wrote a seminal essay entitled: Be Good. Most tech folks have

sparktoro.com

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Rand Fishkin @randfish.bsky.social · 8d

"You’d like to think that the conversion of TikTok into a far right wing space will cause a mass exodus of ethical people off the platform, but as we’ve seen with Twitter that’s not something you can rely on."

www.techdirt.com/2025/09/30/t...

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Rand Fishkin @randfish.bsky.social · 8d

Yup. There's one on there 😎

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Rand Fishkin @randfish.bsky.social · 10d

Ooo will check it out

Rand Fishkin @randfish.bsky.social · 11d

There's definitely tiers.

Tier 1:
Galaxy Quest

Tier 2:
Star Trek (2009)
Wrath of Khan
Undiscovered Country

Tier 3:
Voyage Home
First Contact
Generations
Into Darkness

And some real stinkers:
The Motion Picture
Final Frontier
Search for Spock
Insurrection

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Rand Fishkin @randfish.bsky.social · 14d

Love to hear that!! 🤜🤛

Rand Fishkin @randfish.bsky.social · 15d

It's the end of traffic as we know it.

My talk from this Spring's The Marketing Meetup in London, is now live: m.youtube.com/watch?v=Drk9...

Do y'all feel fine? 😅

Rand Fishkin: It's the end of traffic as we know it

YouTube video by The Marketing Meetup

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Jay 🦋 @jay.bsky.team · 17d

1. Bluesky doesn’t downrank links
2. You can choose your own algorithm from among thousands
3. The whole app is open source

This keeps it a free and open platform by design, leading to better click-throughs and traffic to your site.

We 💙 the open web.

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Rand Fishkin @randfish.bsky.social · 16d

"From August 1, 2024, to August 1, 2025, Steam saw an average of 109,000 new buyers each day, making their first-ever purchase."

- www.invenglobal.com/articles/195...

This makes me very hopeful that snackbarstudio.com can convert some non-gamers into players & fans 🤗😎

Steam 2025 Update: Localization, New Tools, and Daily Deals Drive Valve’s Next Growth Phase

At the devcom developer conference in Cologne, Germany, Valve's Erik Peterson took the stage to present Steam 2025 Platform Update. Drawing on his seven years at Valve supporting developers and publis

www.invenglobal.com

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