Joost de Valk

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  • October 9th

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    Cool SEO tools roundup

    Some of the cool SEO tools I've come across the last few days I just had to share with you:
    Google Tutor has released a very cool Google Insights bookmarklet:
    Once installed you should see a bookmark cleverly titled ‘Google Insights Bookmarklet’ on your bookmarks menu. To use the bookmarklet simply do a search at Google, Yahoo, [...]

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    Posted in: SEO

  • October 9th

    11

    6 Serious Questions for Serious Bloggers

    While it's a hobby for a lot of people, for more and more people, blogging is serious business too. Are you serious about your blog(s) and blogging? Maybe you're even making a good income out of it? If so, you'd better make sure you can answer yes to all of the following questions:
    1. Do you [...]

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    Posted in: WordPress

  • October 7th

    3

    Are you coming for dinner?

    Next week it's time for A4UExpo and while we were doing Strike Point last night, Dave said he'd buy me and our mutual friend Mel Carson dinner. Now Marcus Tandler will also be at that dinner, which makes it a perfect dinner to attend if you want to learn some interesting stuff!
    Now the good thing [...]

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    Posted in: SEO

  • October 5th

    27

    WordPress Hosting Parties Reviewed

    One of the most important things when you're starting a new blog is to consider where'll you host it. This decision also relies on smaller choices like which platform you will use, how much bandwidth you will be using, how much disk space you need, etc. etc.
    This post should help you decide what you need [...]

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    Posted in: WordPress

  • October 2nd

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    11 Top WordPress Plugins Every Blog Should Have

    WordPress in itself is a decent system but it can be made into a rock solid blogging beast. Adding plugins can make WordPress into the Swiss Army Knife of blogging: just pull out whatever functionality you need for your specific blog!

    Many people have asked me for my list of top WordPress plugins. Of course I've [...]

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    Posted in: WordPress

  • September 30th

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    10 Checks to the Perfect WordPress theme

    I've seen it happen so often. People have a great blog, and at some point, they decide they need a new look and feel. They then decide to either buy one or use one of the free themes available at wordpress.org. There's a couple of things they'll look at, usually in the order: layout / [...]

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  • September 30th

    SEOktoberfest

    I was at SEOktoberfest in Munich last week. You should have been too. It was the best conference I've seen both content, networking and business deal wise. Ever. Be there next year.
    Richard's quote is the best thing to say about the whole thing:
    SEOktoberfest was the opposite of most webmaster conferences: no BS, no fakers, no [...]

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    Posted in: SEO

  • September 24th

    6

    Don't customize WP, write a plugin!

    Scripts and Style wrote a short post about adding a custom XML tag to your Atom feed. Unfortunately, they took the wrong route, and decided to change feed-atom.php, the file that serves up the Atom feed for a blog.
    This is not at ALL necessary. The right way of doing stuff like this is writing a [...]

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    Posted in: WordPress

  • September 24th

    4

    SEOktoberfest starts!

    So today it all starts, I'm typing this from Marcus "Mediadonis" Tandler's apartment in Munich, from which we'll leave in about an hour or so to meet with the attendees and the other speakers.
    And when I say other speakers, I'm not talking about "little" people, I'm talking about industry people that make me feel inexperienced. [...]

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    Posted in: SEO

  • September 23rd

    16

    Leaving Onetomarket

    Typing this blog post gives me a weird feeling. I won't beat around the bush: I'm leaving Onetomarket. It's time for a new challenge, and it's time to broaden my horizon. Because of that, I will be joining a new company as of October 1st, and will be diving into another corner of online marketing.
    This [...]

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    Posted in: SEO, Social Media

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