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Edwin Toonen

Edwin is an experienced strategic content specialist. Before joining Yoast, he worked for a web design magazine, where he learned how to create great content.

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In 2006, after working full time in a bookstore for many years, I boldly decided to return to school. I wanted to combine my love for writing with the lure of the internet, so I picked Digital Communication at the HAN University of Applied Sciences in Arnhem. Four years later, I graduated with honors.

In the meantime, I started working for The Netherlands’ largest monthly magazine on web design and development. As a managing editor, I wrote, edited, and translated hundreds of articles on this fascinating subject. I also made sure the magazine’s day-to-day operations went according to plan.

At Yoast, I do much of the same work, except on a bigger scale. As a content specialist, I am responsible for delivering quality content that is engaging and optimal.

In my spare time, I love rocking my 1972 Fender Precision bass with my band (Every Other Me), fiddling about with synthesizers, listening to music, watching an endless stream of – classic – movies, taking long cycling trips, and enjoying life with my sons and girlfriend.

Edwin

Yoast SEO 15.0: Support for Arabic, plus a new table of contents block

29 September 2020 | 91 Comments Edwin Toonen

Today, we’re launching Yoast SEO 15.0. This release features some awesome new additions and enhancements. We’ve added full support for Arabic, made a new block for the block editor and made the Yoast SEO block editor sidebar fully-featured. So, high time to take a look at Yoast SEO 15.0! What to expect in Yoast SEO […]

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Yoast SEO 15.0: Support for Arabic, plus a new table of contents block

Low-budget branding tips for small businesses

15 September 2020 | 15 Comments Edwin Toonen

Over the years, we’ve written quite a few articles about branding. Branding is about getting people to relate to your company and products. It’s also about making your brand synonymous with a product or service. This can be a lengthy and hard project. It can potentially cost you all of your revenue. No wonder branding is […]

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Low-budget branding tips for small businesses

How to add HowTo Schema using Yoast SEO blocks

7 September 2020 | 16 Comments Edwin Toonen

You might know that structured data in the form of Schema.org can do wonders for your search results. It also forms the basis for an ever-increasing amount of new and exciting developments on the search engine front. Google has said many times that structured data is beneficial. Today, we’re going to look at an exciting […]

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How to add HowTo Schema using Yoast SEO blocks

Yoast SEO 14.9: Polish word forms, Hebrew keyphrase recognition

1 September 2020 | 135 Comments Edwin Toonen

Yoast SEO 14.9 comes with a new round of improvements, plus two new language-based enhancements: Polish word form support in Premium and Hebrew keyphrase recognition in Free. Polish is the tenth language to get word form support and there’s a lot more coming. Let’s get started, shall we? Word forms in Yoast SEO Premium: now […]

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Yoast SEO 14.9: Polish word forms, Hebrew keyphrase recognition


What is a static WordPress site? Why would you want one?

24 August 2020 | 8 Comments Edwin Toonen

Static websites? Isn’t that old-school? In the early days of the web, all websites were static. Today, turning your dynamic WordPress site into a high-performing static one might be a viable option for you. Visitors get a super-fast browsing experience, while content managers continue to use the WordPress authoring experience and plugin ecosystem. Hackers have […]

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What is a static WordPress site? Why would you want one?

The history of Schema: towards an easy to understand web

17 August 2020 | 13 Comments Edwin Toonen

Today, it seems that everyone is talking about Schema as being the next hot thing. It has a rich history, and it took a long while for it to gain momentum. Talk of a machine-readable web started when the internet was still in its infancy. It was Sir Tim Berners-Lee — the computer scientist best […]

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The history of Schema: towards an easy to understand web


A much-improved internal linking tool in Yoast SEO Premium: What’s new?

5 August 2020 | 12 Comments Edwin Toonen

Our users often cite the redirect manager as their favorite tool in Yoast SEO Premium, but the internal linking tool is also high on the list. For months, we worked hard to improve the internal linking tool making it smarter and faster. I sat down with our developers Natalia Shitova and Hans-Christiaan Braun, two of […]

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A much-improved internal linking tool in Yoast SEO Premium: What’s new?

Yoast SEO 14.6: New languages with word form support

We have a new release for you: Yoast SEO 14.6. This release has some pretty cool enhancements, plus new additions for Yoast SEO Premium users. We’re continuing our run of languages that get word form support with two new ones: Indonesian and Portuguese. Find what’s new in Yoast SEO 14.6! Word form recognition in Yoast […]

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Yoast SEO 14.6: New languages with word form support