rand-fishkin-moz-perspective

rand-fishkin-moz-perspective is a skill for Claude Code, Codex from swaylq/master-skill. It costs 62 tokens per session (2,165 once invoked), scanned A, original, MIT.

An SEO strategy perspective based on Rand Fishkin’s public work at Moz and SparkToro. It treats SEO as being found wherever people search, including Google, YouTube, TikTok, Reddit, and AI tools.

In plain words
What is it for?
Use it to plan cross-platform discovery, assess links and site authority, adapt content to different audiences, and consider visibility in AI search results.
Why use it?
It broadens SEO planning beyond Google rankings and adds audience research to the decision process. It also explains how to use measures such as Moz’s Domain Authority without confusing them with Google’s own metrics.

Skill for Claude CodeCodex

Written for no agent in particular: nothing here depends on one.

Good fit Use it to plan cross-platform discovery, assess links and site authority, adapt content to different audiences, and consider visibility in AI search results.

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Install with agentmods
npx agentmods add skills/swaylq/master-skill/rand-fishkin-moz
Install

Getting it into your agent

One page per mod, every tool's command on it. A separate URL per tool would split the same page into five that compete with each other.

Any agent
npx skills add swaylq/master-skill --skill rand-fishkin-moz
Clone the repo
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/swaylq/master-skill

Made for: Claude Code, Codex.

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Per session 62 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.
When invoked 2,165 The whole file, excluding the scripts and references it only reads on demand.
Security scan A 0 findings. A grade says what 26 rules found in the file — not that it is safe. Third-party audits
  • NVIDIA SkillSpector pass 7 Sept 2026
How audits are shown
Origin original No closer match found in the catalogue.
Token cost

What it costs to keep this loaded

Counted locally with the o200k_base tokenizer, which is exact for GPT models; Claude uses its own tokenizer and its counts differ. Treat this as one consistent yardstick across the catalogue rather than a bill. Prices are per million input tokens.

ModelPer sessionOnce invoked
Fable 5.1 $0.00062 $0.02165
Opus 5 $0.00031 $0.01082
Sonnet 5 $0.00012 $0.00433
Haiku 4.5 $0.00006 $0.00216

Measured 11d ago against content hash b51a8767fffa, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-09-10, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

rand-fishkin-moz-perspective scanned grade A with 0 findings against 26 rules in 11 categories — prompt injection, anti-refusal, data exfiltration, privilege escalation, supply chain, agent snooping, system-prompt leakage, SSRF and excessive agency — measured 11d ago.

A static scan of the body, not an audit. Every finding is printed with the line that produced it so you can judge whether it matters here. A mod is markdown that instructs an agent; that is exactly why what it instructs is worth reading.

Nothing flagged

None of the 26 patterns this scan looks for appear in this file: no shell pipes, no recursive deletes, no credential paths, no hidden text, no instruction-override or anti-refusal phrasing, no agent-config snooping. That is not a guarantee, it is the absence of the things that are checkable.

prototypes/seo-master/output/sub-skills/rand-fishkin-moz/SKILL.md · 173 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 173 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

Rand Fishkin (Moz / SparkToro) 视角 · Sub-skill

来源声明: 本 skill 基于 Rand Fishkin 在 Moz Whiteboard Friday / SparkToro / 《Lost and Founder》 / 行业大会的公开发声蒸馏. 不编造他没说过的话.

角色背景

  • 背景: SEO 行业先驱 + 头部教育者
  • 代表事件:
    • 2004 创办 Moz (原 SEOmoz), 行业头部工具 + 教育平台
    • Whiteboard Friday 视频系列 (SEO 教育里程碑)
    • 2018 离开 Moz, 创办 SparkToro (受众洞察工具)
    • 著作《Lost and Founder》 (创业者必读)
  • 特色: 长期主义 + 跨平台视野 + 教育者立场 + 反 Spam

心智模型 (4 个 PASS)

1. SEO 不只是 Google — 是「在用户搜索的所有地方被找到」

一句话: SEO 视野要扩大. Google + YouTube + TikTok + Reddit + ChatGPT 都是「搜索」, 都要做.

它说的是: 用户搜索习惯改变 — 80 后看 Google, 95 后看 YouTube / TikTok, AI 时代看 ChatGPT / Perplexity. 单纯做 Google SEO 越来越窄. 真正的 SEO 是「在用户搜索的所有地方被找到」.

应用方式:

  • 跨平台 SEO: Google + YouTube + TikTok + Reddit + Quora
  • AI Search 优化 (GEO / LLMO): ChatGPT / Perplexity / AI Overviews
  • 跨内容形式: 文字 + 视频 + 播客 + 社群
  • 跨平台一致性 (品牌信号一致)

局限:

  • 跨平台运营复杂度极高 (需要多团队)
  • 不同平台用户画像不同, 复刻策略要适配
  • 小团队精力有限, 必须聚焦

2. Domain Authority 不是 Google 指标, 但是行业事实标准

一句话: DA (Moz 的指标) 不是 Google 给的, 但全行业都在用. 高 DA = 站点权重高的事实信号.

它说的是: Rand 创办 Moz 时设计 DA 指标 — 给行业一个统一的可比较的「站点权威度」. Google 不公开自己的 PageRank 数值, DA 成为事实标准.

应用方式:

  • DA 30+ 是基础门槛, 50+ 是中型品牌, 80+ 是头部品牌
  • 链接质量评估时看 DA + 主题相关性
  • 不要把 DA 当成 Google 的 PageRank (它是反推的近似值)

局限:

  • DA 是 Moz 内部算法, Ahrefs 的 DR 跟 DA 不完全一致
  • 不能跨工具直接比较 (DA 50 vs DR 50 数值不同)
  • DA 操纵也存在 (买链接刷 DA), 不能盲信

3. Zero-click search 是 SEO 新现实

一句话: 用户在 SERP 拿到答案就走, 不再点击你的网站. 这是 SEO 不可逆趋势.

它说的是: Featured Snippets / People Also Ask / Knowledge Panel / AI Overviews 让越来越多搜索「零点击」. SparkToro 数据显示 65%+ Google 搜索是 zero-click. SEO 操盘手必须接受这个现实.

应用方式:

  • 内容优化 Featured Snippet (短答案 + 列表 + 表格)
  • 接受部分流量被 Google 截留 — 优化品牌曝光 vs 单纯流量
  • 跨平台 SEO 减少对 Google 单一依赖
  • 直接转化路径 (不只看流量看转化)

局限:

  • Zero-click 趋势对小品牌冲击最大 (品牌曝光不够)
  • 部分类目 (e-commerce / 转化驱动) 受影响小
  • AI Overviews 让 zero-click 比例进一步上升

4. 受众洞察 > 关键词研究

一句话: 别只看「用户搜什么」, 要看「用户是谁 / 在哪 / 听谁的」. SparkToro 是受众洞察工具.

它说的是: 传统 SEO 只看搜索数据 (关键词 / 搜索量). Rand 创办 SparkToro 推动「受众洞察」 — 你的目标用户在哪些社群 / 关注哪些博主 / 看什么播客 / 用什么工具. 这些信号比单纯关键词研究价值高 10 倍.

Read the full file on GitHub · 173 lines

Changes

What this file has done since we first saw it

Hashed on every crawl. A supply-chain change to an agent config is a question of when, not whether, so the history is kept rather than the latest state alone.

  1. 11d ago First seen · 173 lines · 62 tokens per session scan A b51a8767fffa

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rand-fishkin-moz-perspective is a skill published in the GitHub repository swaylq/master-skill (128 stars, last pushed 4d ago), licensed MIT. It adds 62 tokens to every session and 2,165 once invoked, about $0.0003 per session on Opus 5. A static security scan graded it A with 0 findings. No closer match exists in the catalogue, so it is treated as the original; first seen 2026-08-30.

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