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- Joost de Valk
- André Scholten
- Eduard Blacquière
- Erik-Jan Bulthuis
- Frederick Townes
- Joachim Houtman
- Reinout Wolfert
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- RSS Shortcode
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- TweetBacks for WordPress
- Yoast Breadcrumbs
- Sociable – Social Bookmarking for WordPress
- Google Analytics for WordPress
- Blog Icons
- Blog Metrics
- Meta Robots WordPress plugin
- Upcoming for WordPress
- RSS Footer
- Search Suggest
- CrunchBase Widget
- Minimum Comment Length WordPress Plugin
- SlideShare WordPress plugin
- Comment Redirect
- Amazon Auto Affiliate Linker
- Email commenters
- Permalink Redirect WordPress Plugin
- Enhanced WordPress contact form plugin
- Users to CSV WordPress plugin
- From RSS?
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- adCenter Analytics for WordPress
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Posts
Analytics
- Google Analytics for WordPress gets a debug mode
- Google Analytics for WordPress reaches version 4
- Rankings that make sense
- Google Analytics plugin updates
- Comment Tracking in Clicky
- Practical Guide to 404 Error Pages: What WordPress is Missing
- Searching Without Result
- Track SEO rankings and Sitelinks with Google Analytics II
- New SEO reports for Google Analytics
- Easily get your Google Analytics account ID
- The analytics issue with Twitter
- A Rankings Filter in Analytics: the video
- Track SEO rankings with Google Analytics
- Technorati Pepper for Mint
- The “Yoast Post” and more
- Web Analytics Congress: the learnings
- Web Analytics Congress in the Netherlands
- Piwik – Open source webanalytics
- Heroes coming to Holland
- WordPress Google Analytics 2.3: XHTML strict
- A better way of tracking feed subcribes
- Google Analytics plugin updated!
- Image search keyword tracking with the new Google Analytics
- Blog Metrics 0.3: who’s the best linkbaiter?
- Google Analytics: Adding search engines in the new version
- Blog Metrics 0.2: compare all time stats to last month’s stats
- Blog Metrics in WordPress
- Updated my Google Analytics plugin to track AdSense clicks
- Google Analytics’ find function
- Cool new stuff in Google Analytics
- Using segmentation in Google Analytics for WordPress RSS readers
- John Chow vs Shoemoney: John is in the lead!
- Yahoo’s Search Assist and tracking keywords
- Extracting click data from Google Analytics
- Google Analytics for WordPress: my latest plugin
- Google Analytics and Google Image search: revisited
- Getting Google Analytics to extract keywords from Google Image searches
- Google Analytics: adding search engines
- Update to statistics detector for yet another stats package
- Running multiple Mint instances? Make updating easier!
- Analytics conversions, please explain what’s wrong
- Statistics detector part II
- Note to Mint users
- Free competitor statistics!
- Have a Mint Greasemonkey script
- Stone Steps Webalizer
- Stone Steps Webalizer
Magento
Offtopic
- Showing off my new ride!
- Travel gear…
- *Bing* on national radio
- New design (and submitting for a contest)!
- Personal note: wedding pictures!
- Just Married!
- Guide for contacting me
- Blogging at Google Tutor
- MSN / Live Messenger problems
- Blog Tag: When I’m not doing SEO…
- Developers needed!
- Check out my new gravatar
- That’s it! I’m switching to GMail!
- Sorry about that: back to full feeds…
- We need more colleagues!
- Microsoft Censoring .info domains in MSN Messenger
- A note to my Spanish readers
- Bidvertiser.net – Text-Link-Advertising
- MSN Reporter still buggy
- The future of the internet.
- Tele2 sucks, but I’m back online
- Moved the blog to the homepage
- The meaning of “de Valk”
- Help me brand this blog!
- Sorry, fucked up the feed
- Short note: switched to full feeds
- MSN Reporter…
- “Officially” starting my own Webdesign company
- 5 Things you didn’t know about me
- ReviewMe
- 9rules, I hope I’m in :)
- So long, OpenDarwin!
- Tycho!
- HoudahSpot
- css3.info blog
- MacZOT fans want Pzizz
- Posting at CSS Drive
- Nokia moves S60 browser development to opensource.apple.com
- macZOT! offers SubEthaEdit
- Want to sync Google Calendar with iCal or Outlook?
- Got my MacBook Pro!
- Briefly: New headers, Symbian, Webkit Community Release
- Macbook Pro customs trouble
- WebKit Community Release
- Apache.Startkabel.nl
- Mac OS X 10.4.6 iSync supports Nokia 6230
Online Marketing
- Just because I suck at PPC doesn’t mean you have to!
- Happy Birthday BuySellAds!
- Facebook & (the lack of) Privacy
- The Yoast.com Reader Survey: help us improve!
- Design for Conversion
- Want to work at OrangeValley?
- A4U RoadShow Amsterdam
- Interview with Todd Garland of BuySellAds
- Tweetbacks for WordPress
- Your homepage: your blogs showcase
- Useful Link Roundup
- More conversions on a lower budget
- A4UExpo was great, yet again.
- Switching from plain text to HTML emails
- Amazon Universal Wish List
- Detect ad-blocking software
- Conversion Rate Optimization?
- Cloaking for AdWords
- Unreliable delivery times at Bol.com
- Online Reputation Management e-book
- Which books should every online marketer read?
- Twittering with Twitterific
- SES NY 2008
- Co-host at the Shoemoney show
- Sociable update
- SES New York: who should I meet?
- Pics & Presentations from RIMC 2008
- Making money online – increasing profits
- Book Review: osCommerce Webmaster’s guide to Selling Online
- FeedBurner feed counts drop again… (due to FeedFetcher)
- Next stop: SMX Stockholm
- Kevin Ryan & Jeff Ferguson of Napster
- Know your customer!
- Conversion Rate Experts!
- Combining SEM and Affiliate Marketing
- At A4UExpo!
- FeedBurner: MyBrand is not an uncommon use of my feed…
- Shoemoney shows who’s boss
- Nice and cheap internet marketing products?
SEO
- The heading structure for your blog
- Link dump: interesting reads from around the web
- My WordCamp Ireland WordPress SEO Presentation
- URLs, social media and campaign tracking
- How to get me to analyze your site
- Debugging your XML sitemap with an XSL Stylesheet
- BlueGlass: When great minds come together…
- SEOktoberfest 2010: looking forward to it
- Video SEO: A technical guide
- Video SEO and WordPress
- W3C Validation: why you should care, and why not
- Small updates from me & my friends
- Site Speed is now a Ranking Factor
- Optimizing for Rich “Jump To” Snippets
- Google & Microformats: Drive More Traffic
- DirJournal: a directory still worth submitting to
- Preventing your site from being indexed, the right way
- WordCamp NL Presentation
- Think Visibility II was a blast
- Newspaper SEO at Think Visibility
- User Contact Fields in WordPress 2.9
- ThinkVisibility
- CSS Image Replacement, what’s up Matt?
- What are “custom taxonomies”?
- SEOBook SEO Toolbar
- Postbox, an interview with Sherman Dickman
- An interview with Matthew Wood of A4UExpo
- Magento SEO
- Winner of the SunPress competition!
- Coverage of SES Amsterdam
- SES Amsterdam
- Canonical URL links
- SEMMY Finalist!
- WordPress SEO Video
- Nominated for a SEMMY (or two)!
- 2009 will rock!
- Disabling SearchWiki
- SlideShare should get it’s SEO fixed
- Cool SEO tools roundup
- Are you coming for dinner?
- SEOktoberfest
- SEOktoberfest starts!
- Leaving Onetomarket
- SEO Plugin for WordPress
- Submit your website? My ass.
- Back in business!
- Measuring SEO: why rankings are worthless
- SEO Link Analysis 1.0.4
- B2B SEO: Link Building
- Technorati Authority: why it sucks
- SEOktoberfest
- B2B Content SEO
- How to destroy your reputation with 1 post
- Danny Sullivan speaks at SES San Jose!
- Crawl Rate Tracker
- Winners!
- B2B SEO: Marketing strategy for specific niches
- Reminder: win a Ticket for SES Hamburg
- TwitterCounter chicklet!
- The must read article about WordPress SEO
- Google translating search results
- Meet Yoast!
- Win a ticket for SES Hamburg!
- SEO Link Analysis 1.0.3!
- Interview with Kevin Ryan of SES
- PageRank Sculpting with nofollow, the final words
- Webanalisten.nl
- Nice noframes spam…
- So Matt, how would you classify these stories?
- The difference between being on top of and ahead of your (SEO) game
- Strike Point Co-Host
- Traffic estimation with Google’s traffic estimator
- Plugin updates: Google Analytics and Sociable
- Sociable 2.6.4 some bugfixes and Blogosphere news!
- Blog Metrics 1.0
- Enjoying SMX München
- In Munich for SMX: jetzt geht’s loss!
- User stylesheets to show nofollows
- Cool new Rank Checker by SEObook
- PageRank sculpting – Siloing and more
- PageRank sculpting: my view
- Custom WordPress database error pages
- A Dutch discussion on paid links
- Google subdomain & 302 spam
- Snagsta
- SEO for Newspapers
- Putting nofollow back on links in comments
- Experimenting with tags
- Move your WordPress blog to a new domain in 10 steps!
- WordPress plugins and SEO mailing list
- In Iceland!
- Finding crawl issues with Crawl Score
- Find out who’s scraping you!
- Playing with the X-Robots-Tag HTTP header
- Reputation Management done right
- Catch me on Strike Point tonight!
- Link request mistakes…
- Update to Robots Meta plugin
- Technorati Ping Bookmarklet
- Linking out? Make sure people notice!
- Conference Agenda 1st quarter 2008
- Make the scrapers work for you!
- Why I need a Google Fridge!
- Elite Retreat, a conference that could change YOUR life
- Wikia Search: Crap
- Technorati Authority Booster
- I need your votes!
- My 2007 business highlights
- More Sitelinks!
- Google Webmaster Tools Content Analysis shows Google breaks the rules.
- SEO Link Analysis Firefox Extension
- Link Value Factors
- Personalized search disabling not working?
- More SEO Blog tips
- Live Search’s link command work again and they’re awesome!
- WordPress SEO – The beginner’s guide
- Matt, Adam, Please let me report linkspammers!
- PageRank: more valuable than ever
- A del.icio.us linkstructure!
- We need a Google court!
- SMX Stockholm, having a blast!
- A4UExpo Rocked!
- Semantic HTML and SEO
- SEO has to be on your mind all the time
- SES @ A4UExpo: Kevin Ryan and Mike Grehan
- Extreme SEO Q&A
- Big hunkin’ list of Mac Tools for SEO’s and Webdevelopers
- Nofollow outbound links on your homepage and category pages
- Good deal on DealDotCom
- I requested reconsideration, and got my PageRank back!
- Conference schedule
- From RSS? WordPress plugin updated!
- Intelligent site structure for better SEO
- What’s the PageRank of your wp-admin dir?
- Definite guide to robots meta tags
- WordPress: Noindex specific posts and pages!
- Google doesn’t get it?
- Google: keyword density should NOT be this important
- WordPress 2.3 makes creating dupe content even easier!
- PageRank dropped??
- Feeds in the search results?
- Two nice bookmarklets
- Are search engines using link-data over time?
- Click here to read all about a natural link profile
- Searching for freshly indexed pages
- Optimizing your WordPress titles
- More WordPress SEO: robots-meta update
- Update of Robots Meta plugin: more duplicate content issues solved
- The DMOZ mob strikes again…
- WikiPedia breaking the SERPs
- noindex,follow your WordPress search result pages
- Spock: Another Search Engine Reputation Management Resource
- JasonD on DaveN vs Jason Calacanis
- Busting some SEO myths
- The trouble with 301 redirects and backlinks
- WordPress version detection
- Perfectly coded AJAX with fallbacks, and still no Google love?
- Why you should not use XML Sitemaps
- Help me create a list of online RSS readers
- Searching with Google: country based results made easy
- Linklove monday
- Readable nofollows
- Google Search URL parameters cheat sheet
- Blogspam works, but only in large quantities
- What’s more frustrating than having a link from dev.live.com?
- Linklove tuesday
- Nasty duplicate content trouble created by annoying “SEO”
- Google de-Personalized Search for Firefox and IE7
- De-personalising Google Searchresults
- Yahoo SiteExplorer web vs. API: answers from Yahoo!
- Search Engine Friendly vs Search Engine Optimized
- 302-hijacks and domain name spam
- “Plumbing the web” – duplicate content issues at Google Webmaster Central
- Greyhat and Blackhat SERM techniques
- Search Engine Reputation Management: make it look natural
- SEO Jokes
- Yahoo SiteExplorer API giving “wrong” results?
- Technorati redesign
- Blocking your site’s search results?
- Cloak your sitemap!
- nofollow is NOT meant for editorially reviewed links
- Affiliate links? Cloak them!
- Optimize your shopping cart in 5 steps
- How to get Google to crawl your site faster
- Why I blog
- How to use Google Webmaster Tools
- Selling links? Don’t advertise it openly!
- Domain-info works again
- How to prevent Google from indexing script output
- How to remove www from your URL with mod_rewrite
- Why Google doesn’t like frames in your sites
- PHPSESSID in your URL? Learn to 301 redirect them with PHP
- SEOdays was great, even though Google fucked up
- Ask.com: I’m flattered, but…
- Going to SEOdays!
- Showing linkdata, but not PageRank
- Google Webmaster Tools on steroids
- IP-delivery or cloaking: useful, but do you WANT to use it?
- MSN launches Dutch Digg clone, but forgets spam prevention
- Yahoo SiteExplorer suggestion
- Personal search history creeping into SERPs
- Paid search is too cheap!
- DMOZ and Wikipedia: how it should work
- PageRank update, some PR6′s added
- Live search asking stupid questions
- Guest post at SEOEgghead.com
- WebmasterRadio and iTunes
- Googling for microformats
- Outbound links in english WikiPedia now nofollowed as well
- Contextual links for sale
- You can add your URL’s to DMOZ again!
- Review of Text-Link-Ads.com
- 36 high quality links for 1 dollar
- AdSense affiliate marketing
- What I’ve learned in the SEM scholarship contest
- Technorati Greasemonkey script
- Helping DaveN and Matt Cutts test MSN
- Spammers using social media
- Wikipedia Link Nazi’s
- Marketing-Pilgrim SEO Contest
- Why you should check Google suggest
- Launching a new blog? Get it right in one turn
- ‘Show me the money!’
- Why PageRank says nothing about rankings
- Wikipedia and Link-Spam: the story continues
- The risks of link-spamming Wikipedia
- Developing link-bait 2: using Wikipedia
- The Sandbox, or is it the Trustbox
- Small new project: SEO Heroes RSS
- Digg abuse
- W3C paid links no longer indexed
- Which links hurt and which don’t?
- Update to PageRank checking script
- PageRank update!
- Developing link-bait: an example
- That’s some smart link building
- Domain info script
- Getting Google’s last visit date from the Google API
- Ranking checkers
- PageRank checker
- Ambatchdotcom SEOcontest
- Online Marketing / SEO
- Online shopping
- The strongest online directories
- Apogee Search
- Yet another CSS3 page: border-image
- Google Maps has reached Europe
- Google Calendar Data API
Serverside
Social Media
Webdesign & development
- Using the Technorati API on your blog
- The full guide to mailto links!
- Added a print CSS style sheet
- Get the number of popular digg posts for a URL
- OS X 10.5 Leopard: Spaces combined with Parallels
- Webdesign survey
- Implementing a sitewide search function
- The correct way of using conditional comments
- FeedRoll
- Sortable table script updated to v1.5.5
- As usual, Technorati walks ahead of the pack
- Sortable table v1.5
- FeedBurner history comparison
- Cool FeedBurner schwag
- Playing with the del.icio.us Web Badge JSON API using PHP
- FeedBurner down?
- Greasemonkey auto-update notification
- Technorati Greasemonkey script removed
- Web 2.0 and APIs: the case for Unlimited queries
- FeedBurner API fun
- Favicons and your online brand
- More sortable table fun!
- Update to sortable table script
- W3C Validator API
- PHP5 and NUSOAP
- Does Internet Explorer 7 like your website?
- New design!
- Webmaster tools
- SEO, Webdesign, e-commerce: you should do it all
- Funny way of connecting webdesigners and clients
- Why pay for web design?
- Small update to table sorting script
- CSS3.info
- Media Queries work in WebKit!
- Resize in WebKit!
- CSS3 section: multi-column layout
- Digg effect
- More news in the CSS3 section
- Why i’m very happy with OmniWeb 5.5
- CSS3 text-shadow
- CSS3: multiple backgrounds and background-size
- CSS3 Preview – Background-origin and background-clip
- Omniweb 5.5 in public beta!
- High DPI Web Sites
- Back by demand: CSS3 rounded border preview
- Opera 9 Beta
- First WebKit commit!
WordPress
- Quick tip: paths and URLs in WordPress
- 7 reasons for malfunctioning plugins (and their fixes)
- A reader story: One Project Closer
- Advertise on yoast.com
- Why functionality in themes is not always good.
- Quick Tip: Simple WordPress debugging
- Google Analytics for WordPress get’s a logo
- Emailing your commenters
- Part II of my WordPress CMS series
- W3 Total Cache and why you should be using it
- Using WordPress as a CMS article series
- Two WordPress SEO Plugins you should NOT be using
- Outsource slicing & coding of your WordPress themes
- WordPress-to-Lead for Salesforce CRM
- Emergency WordPress access
- Gravity Forms (Widget) update
- Are you listening to the WordPress Podcast?
- WordCamp Ireland: having a blast!
- Implementing hreview in your WordPress theme
- Backing up your WordPress blog with ease
- Unleashing Quix
- Checking Blog Privacy Settings
- Web Designer Mag should fix its SEO
- WordPress Hosting
- Importing from another MySQL into WordPress
- Smarter handling of WordPress plugin uploads
- Geeky bits in WordPress 2.9
- Gravity Forms Widget + Extra’s
- Thanks to Yoast’s WordPress loving sponsors
- Clicky Tracking for WordPress
- Plugin Compatibility data now crowdsourced
- Quick WP tip #2: Conditional Thickbox loading
- WordPress Debug Theme
- Upgrading issues with WordPress MU
- VideoPress: Web Video, WordPress Style
- Quick WP tip: pagination classes
- Press This with Aaron Brazell
- Press This updates
- Sociable gets a new home
- My presentation at Think Visibility
- Gravity Forms on Press This
- Press This: John Godley and Frederick Townes
- Multilingual and Multi Domain Sites in WordPress
- Adding Sites to Sociable
- Analytics360° – Google Analytics in your Dashboard
- A Migration to WordPress MU
- Holy cow… 1 million downloads
- SmushIt for WordPress
- Using a CDN for your WordPress blog
- Playing around with VPS.net
- On the GPL, Themes, Plugins & Free.
- Yet Another WordPress Podcast
- New Plugin: RSS Shortcode
- Excluding a blog category from your feed
- Updates to the WordPress TextMate bundle
- Sociable 3.3 with awe.sm integration
- Hosting your JS at Google
- Custom RSS feeds in WordPress
- StudioPress and Yoast kick it off together
- WordPress MU development, I love it!
- 40 WordPress Optimisation tips
- On WPWeekly Episode 48!
- Optimizing WordPress database performance
- Interviewed on SEO 101
- WestHost: WordPress hosting done right
- WP-cron not working?
- Fix Automatic Plugin Update
- I Won! (a SEMMY)
- PHP Cross Reference of WordPresss
- New layout, coming soon!
- WordPress plugin competition
- FeedBurner subscription show-off revisited
- Styling the intro paragraph
- Plugins updates for 2.7 and more
- WP 2.7 fun: complete hcards
- WordPress 2.7!
- WordPress functions to supercharge your Theme!
- Disabling the update nag
- Simple scripts for speedy WordPress actions
- Showing off your FeedBurner subscribers
- Install WordPress 2.6.3
- A4UExpo Presentation
- 6 Serious Questions for Serious Bloggers
- WordPress Hosting Parties Reviewed
- 11 Top WordPress Plugins Every Blog Should Have
- 10 Checks to the Perfect WordPress theme
- Don’t customize WP, write a plugin!
- More nice plugin news: Customize your community
- Improved WordPress Breadcrumbs
- Breadcrumbs in WordPress
- WordPress plugin search
- Blog Icons is now officially cool
- Two new plugins
- Using actions in your WordPress themes
- Make WordPress’ search function suck Less.
- Sociable 3.0
- Crunchbase Widget WordPress plugin
- LinkedIn feature in Sociable
- Sociable & SlideShare update
- Issues with some of my plugins
- WordPress 2.6 Windows hosting issue
- WordPress 2.6
- Several plugin updates and a new plugin!
- Annoyances and weird stuff
- My redesign: the homepage
- WordPress Goodies
- Treat those first time commenters with respect!
- Replacing plugins with template code: Gravatars
- WordPress 2.5 Plugin Settings Pages Style Guide
- Looking for SEO aware WordPress developers
- A better SlideShare WordPress plugin
- Ads Widget for WordPress
- Upgrade your WordPress to 2.3.3!
- Sociable WordPress plugin take-over
- Speed up WordPress, and clean it up too!
- Update to users to CSV plugin
- Blogging from my phone!
- Update your robots-meta plugin!
- Conditional WordPress widgets with rich editable text
- Upgrade your WordPress!!
- Exporting your users and / or commenters to a CSV file?
- Merging plugins: the meta-robots WordPress plugin
- Adding a description to your categories
- Cave your trolls!
- Upgrading and Installing WordPress from Subversion
- WordPress theming: pushing trackbacks down
- Fixed category subpage titles and a fix in permalink redirect plugin
- Permalink Redirect Plugin for WordPress
- Serving XHTML as application/xhtml+xml
- Showing subcategories on WordPress category pages
- WordPress subpages going supplemental: the fix
- WordPress 301 redirect
- NoIndex for RSS feeds!
- Google, WordPress and trackback URL’s
- Update to NoDirectory WP plugin
- No Directory WordPress plugin
- Version 1.1 of the WordPress contact form
- Enhanced WordPress Contact Form
- NOODP WordPress plugin
- Upgraded to WordPress 2.1
- Changing your permalink structure
- Short note: FeedBurner
- Email Your WordPress Commentors
