Michiel Heijmans

Senior Consultant

Michiel is a senior online marketing consultant at Yoast. He was one of the first bloggers in the Netherlands. He co-founded one of the first Dutch blogs about webdesign and blogging, about:blank. Having been in this business for more than 10 years, he's what you'd call a veteran in online marketing.

At Yoast, Michiel mostly works on our website reviews. His blog posts will mostly focus on issues we've encountered in the several websites we reviewed.

Latest Posts

Common sense for your website

I am the last one to tell a website owner that his job is to become the local SEO or usability expert. That would be unrealistic. Why should a constructor learn SEO? He should not. Why should a gardner know all about user experience? He should not. But how about applying some common sense to…

Why should I visit your website?

One thing we often recommend in our site analyses, is the use of introductory content on a homepage. We get quite a lot response on that, with people being unclear how to do that. “Where should I put that content?” or “How long should that content be?” or the one I dislike the most: “I…

7 ways to Increase Sales by creating Trust

The key to conversing a visitor into a client is the creation of trust. Your product can be the greatest thing on earth or the dullest office supply ever, both can be sold online when your visitor knows you are the best supplier for that product or service. We often advise on how to gain…

Where do you want me to click?

The case for a clear Call to Action on your homepage It’s a vastly overrated notion that a homepage should include all sections of your website and serve all kind of visitors. It needs one clear call to action. Clutter: To make disorderly or hard to use by filling or covering with objects The need…