Joost de Valk
Founder at Yoast.com
Joost de Valk is the owner and creator of Yoast.com. He's a WordPress / Web developer, SEO & and an Open Source fanatic.
He's also (and more importantly) the father of a son called Tycho, a daughter called Wende and the husband of a lovely wife called Marieke.
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Changing the look of your Search Result Pages
I love Google, I seriously do. What I don’t like too much is them adding more and more fluff to my search result pages (or SERPs) that I really don’t want or need. Most of us know about their new Terms of Service now, right? No reason to show me that box all the bloody [...]
Website Traffic times ten? Sometimes it’s easy
I’ll be honest, this post is somewhat of a “boast”. But since “boast” rhymes with “Yoast”, I think it’s allowed. Recently we did a website review for “How do you say that Word?”. The review contained instructions to make a section of the site accessible to spiders. Results? 10x the traffic. The Site & The [...]
Submit a Compatible Theme
We’re building a listing of themes that are compatible with our WordPress SEO plugin. If you use a WordPress theme that is compatible, please submit it using the form below:
WordPress robots.txt Example
Robots.txt is a way to tell a search engine which pages it’s allowed to spider, to “see”, and which pages it cannot “see”. Because of that, robots.txt differs from meta name=”robots” tags, which tell search engines on those individual pages, whether they can include them in their index or not. The difference is subtle, but [...]
EASDP Forum / EADP Conference
The major search and database publishing event from the European Association of Directory and Database Publishers.
Brussels, Belgium
WordCamp NL
The only WordCamp in the Netherlands, of course I can’t miss that one.
Utrecht, Utrecht, The Netherlands
Digital Marketing Live
Digital Marketing Live! is een nieuw event met doorlopende sessies, happenings, paneldiscussies, battles, workshops en round tables. Twee dagen in het teken van uitwisselen van kennis, tactics, best practices, informatie uit cases en het opdoen van contacten.
Amsterdam, Noord-Holland, The Netherlands
Use Gravity Forms to submit custom post types
In my previous post I explained how I used the Types plugin to create a new custom post type. That custom post type will be used to display a table of supported themes for my WordPress SEO plugin, and is therefor called wpseo-theme. Now the trick here is that I want users to be able [...]
Types WordPress plugin – Easy Custom Post Types
I’ve long wanted to create a database of themes that support my SEO plugin and never came up with a manageable way of doing that. When my buddy Amir from WPML emailed me about their two new plugins, Types and Views, it took me a while to grasp what they did. Turns out I’m daft [...]
Genesis
A fully featured theme framework that works flawlessly with WordPress SEO.
