About Patrick Kuijpers

I was born in Nijmegen (about 10 minutes from the Yoast office) in 1984. I studied ICT at the ROC in Nijmegen. After graduating, I started working in that field. In my spare time, I dabbled my feet into SEO and affiliate marketing and noticed I was having way more fun doing that than I ever did with doing my regular work. So after years of doing SEO on the side as a hobby I made the decision it was time for a change and really schooled myself on the subject. I found a job as an SEO, but I wanted to grow and learn even more.

Since May 2015 I’m part of the Yoast SEO team and I love the diversity of the websites I encounter, picking them apart piece by piece trying to give the website owners valuable information on how to improve their website and get better results.

In my spare time, I like to spend time with my girlfriend Silvia, watch a lot of series and movies, play darts and I sing along with almost any song known to men even if I don’t know the lyrics.

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Recent posts

Ask Yoast: content SEO Ask Yoast: Keep or delete and redirect event pages?

If your site provides a round-up of interesting events, like food events, it's important to think about your site's structure. You'll quickly get many pages about past events, so it's good to have a strategy for handling those pages. Check out this week's Ask Yoast on expired event pages and SEO!

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What is HTTP/2? What is HTTP/2?

Site speed is crucial. There are several ways to improve how fast your site loads. One of them is moving to the newish HTTP/2 protocol. This makes sure that your connection gets a nice speed boost. Find out what HTTP/2 is and how it can help you!

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Caroline's Corner Caroline’s Corner: How to kill that inner critic

You have loads of inspiration so writing blog posts is just a matter of pounding on your keyboard, right? For some, that's exactly the process. But most people have a big monster lurking about: their inner critic. In this post, Caroline explains how she defeated her inner critic monster.

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