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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Flickr oembed test
This is a test of a flickr video using oembed:
Dailymotion shortcode test
Test of a dailymotion video with shortcode: “Here is a look at some of the notable events that ook place on this day in history, January 7th.”
Dailymotion oEmbed test
Test of a dailymotion video embedded with oembed:
Metacafe test
Test of a metacafe video:
Flickr shortcode Test
Test of a flickr video (such an awesome tortoise):
Veoh test
Test of a Veoh video
WordPress SEO Plugin Theme Integration Guide
Theme authors come in two different shapes and sizes: those who integrate SEO “functionality” into their themes and those who don’t. If you’re in the camp of integrating SEO functionality into your theme, you’ve got yet another choice to make: do you “yield” for site owners that have an SEO plugin installed, disabling your own [...]
Data Privacy
Your Facebook user ID, username, other basic details and the names and ID’s of pages you manage may be stored by Yoast.com for the purpose of debugging and improving the behavior of the application. They will never be used for anything else outside of Facebook and Facebook widgets, nor be sold or given to other [...]
GoDaddy’s spammy link building techniques
Over the last few months, I’ve seen GoDaddy rise up in the rankings for a lot of hosting related terms. At first I suspected they were finally using their very strong domain in a smart way, but then I noticed they ranked for terms I know you can’t rank for without a lot of external links, no [...]
Rich Snippets showing up everywhere
Google seems to have taken out the whitelisting process for several types rich snippets, most importantly the review and review-aggregate types. In the process they have also made some changes to how combined author / rich snippets are shown. Let me run you through what I’ve seen over the last few days. Review snippets for [...]
