We blog about optimizing your website all the time here at Yoast, and we usually give you tips and tricks you can implement straight away on how to do that. Now it's time that we improve what we do, here at Yoast.com. So it's time for a short survey, I'd be very grateful if you [...]
The Yoast.com Reader Survey: help us improve!
Categories: Online Marketing
Want to work at OrangeValley?
We're doing well, at OrangeValley, so much so, that we've decided to expand our team with not one or two, but three (3!) new consultants. Are you going to be that consultant?
The vacancies are listed here, in Dutch. Please pass it on to any of your friends who might find it interesting!
Categories: Online Marketing
A4U RoadShow Amsterdam
Upcoming March 4th there will be an A4U Roadshow event in Amsterdam. A great place to meet and network with the A4U crew, and other people interested in online and especially affiliate marketing!
Registration is free, so register now! I'll be there, so let me know in the comments when you're coming too and we can [...]
Categories: Online Marketing
Interview with Todd Garland of BuySellAds
I've recently switched from selling my ads directly to having BuySellAds take care of it, and it's been an absolutely awesome experience. As a result of that experience, I do not agree with Chris Brogan yet that advertising is completely broken, but it does need a good level of reinvention.
So, to introduce you to the [...]
Categories: Online Marketing
Tweetbacks for WordPress
For those who you who've been following me on Twitter (if you don't, it's about time, I'm @jdevalk!), the fact that I was working on a Tweetbacks plugin for WordPress is no news. We've just officially made the announcement on SmashingMagazine, so go read how to implement it there and install Tweetbacks for WordPress on [...]
Your homepage: your blogs showcase
When you get to a blog you've never visited before, through a search, a listing on a social network site or a link on another blog, what kind of page do you land up on? Usually, it'll be an article page. You'll read the article, and decide, based on that article and the other info [...]
Categories: Online Marketing
Useful Link Roundup
I've been awfully busy the last few days, but still a few interesting things came flying by:
My buddies at Conversion Rate Experts released an article on their blog today which really rocks: Understanding your visitors.
Bloglines apparently fixed their "Crawler problem", according to their news page, and that boosted the RSS readership for this site from [...]
Categories: Online Marketing
More conversions on a lower budget
As you know I've recently started working at OrangeValley, for which we've just launched the new site (Dutch, english full version coming soon). As a young and very enthusiastic company, we can be very honest about it: we've got room for clients.
"Us" is a group of highly experienced web marketing consultants. Some of you, especially [...]
Categories: Online Marketing
A4UExpo was great, yet again.
Matthew and his team at Existem have done it again. If people ask me, anywhere in the coming 12 months, which show they should attend on online marketing, I can only say one thing: A4UExpo. They're really giving all the other search and online marketing shows a run for their money.
The last few days have [...]