Rand Fishkin

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

I'll send you an email 😎🤜🤛💯

I like this service and will be using it

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

It's so self-referential.

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

Pretty proud of this About/Contact Us page

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

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.

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

SparkTogether 2025 - October 16 - Seattle, WA The original story-focused marketing event. Tell-all sagas. Real numbers. No recordings. Finally, in person.

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

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. 👇

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

Make Something People Want to Talk About - SparkToro

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…

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."

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

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*. 👇

"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...

Yup. There's one on there 😎

Ooo will check it out

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

Love to hear that!! 🤜🤛

YouTube video by The Marketing Meetup Rand Fishkin: It's the end of traffic as we know it

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? 😅

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.

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

"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 🤗😎

This is why I'll never understand. They cave to fascists in exchange for a slightly larger number in a bank account so large they'll never make a dent in it...

My buddy @seattlefoodgeek.bsky.social made the world's first ultrasonic chef's knife.

It launches today: seattleultrasonics.com but I got one last night 😎🤫👇

Lastly, consider watching some of his films this week. My favorites include Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid, All the President’s Men, Three Days of the Condor, The Sting, Jeremiah Johnson, and All Is Lost.

Rest in peace to a man who has given us much.

@archive.org preserved the original study, which you can find here. web.archive.org/web/20250911...

YouTube video by Simon Marcus C'est quoi Gritty?

Any excuse to post one of my favorite videos of all time

Facts

Social media is 90% tolerating absolute garbage so you can enjoy 10% of stuff you actually want to see nowdays

Judgy Andrew is my favorite Andrew