Posts About ‘joost de valk’

My Moment of 2012: Yoast, Mel Carson, Jonathan Allen and Barry Schwartz

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The end of 2012 is approaching rapidly, and yes, you are seeing ‘predictions for 2013′ or ‘what happened in 2012′ posts probably pop up everywhere. Here on State of Search we try and do things differently, but to be honest we also like to listen to what other people think and we like to let our friends talk.

So this year we went for another approach: we asked our friends and bloggers what their moment for 2012 was and what their wishes for 2013 are. Going up to the New Year we will tell you what the best moments of our friends were and around the New Year we will show you what they wished for. Not all at once, we have too many friends ;-) , but in groups. Towards the end you will hear from our bloggers.

Today it is time for the first group! In this group some big names from within the industry: WordPress SEO celeb Joost de Valk (for some better known as “Yoast”), former Microsoft hero, now author and Self Employed Mel Carson, The Director of Searchenginewatch Jonathan Allen and the editor at Searchengineland and Founder at SEROundtable Barry Schwartz tell us what they’re best moments for 2012 were. Enjoy! (more…)

Video SEO for WordPress Just Became Really Easy

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Here on State of Search we have been using WordPress from the start and we have also from the start been using a few of Joost de Valk’s plugins, including his most famous one, the WordPress SEO plugin. Until now all these plugins were free to use. Recently Joost (who for some is better known under the name “Yoast“), launched his first paid plugin: Video SEO for WordPress.

I was fortunate enough to be able to test in the past few weeks in which as it turned out it had some extra use on an unexpected successful post on State of Search. Find below my review of the plugin. (more…)

SES Amsterdam: Search is changing. Wake up and get to work!

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SES Amsterdam took place last week. The whole Dutch search market was gathered to hear the latest developments insearch from the top local search experts, representatives from Google and the international headliner Martin MacDonald.

The day started of with a wake-up call from Joost de Valk, an internationally respected SEO known for his WordPress SEO plug in. Joost of course starts with the Panda update by Google. He shows us why he’s very happy with the Panda update. Winners include Wikipedia and NY Times, making content a major aspect of SEO. (more…)

Google Now Warning WordPress Users They Need To Update

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If you own a WordPress website and you haven’t updated your WordPress version lately you might be getting a warning soon. And no, this is not the warning you get when you open the WordPress CMS, it is a warning from Google.

Last week the first people started noticing that Google had sent them a message within Google Webmaster Tools saying they should update their WordPress versions. I myself today got an e-mail from GWT saying one of my sites needs an update. (more…)

Linkdex and Yoast team up in newest update of WordPress SEO Plugin

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An exciting new cooperation takes place in the world of tools, SEO and WordPress. Linkdex, the SEO tool we recently reviewed with great enthusiasm, will be showing up in a surprising place: Yoast’s WordPress SEO Plugin.

Joost de Valk has built and expanded this plugin a lot in the past year and not without success. The plugin has been downloaded over 200.000 times already. The newest update will bring the number of downloads up really fast. (more…)

Do search and social match? A talk with Joost de Valk (@yoast) and Olivier Blanchard (@thebrandbuilder)

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Search and Social. Are they a match made in heaven, are they enemies or are they something which you should do both, but separate from each other? At the Fusion Marketing Experience (#FusionMex) in Brussels this week (I recommend this conference by the way, very insightful one) I had the chance to put a Social Media expert and a Search Expert next to each other to have them discuss the two.

Olivier Blanchard (@thebrandbuilder), author of the book “Social Media ROI” and a well recognized Social Media expert on the subject of actually making it work business wise, and Joost de Valk (@yoast) a well know search and WordPress consultant, talked about their separate knowledge areas but also how they could merge. The video was taped outside so you might here some background noice.

A summer interview with… Joost de Valk: “its about video SEO”

There are many great search-experts out there. We decided we wanted to give some extra attention to some of them. Therefore we will be interviewing some of these experts. During the entire summer you will be served with short interviews with influential people in the industry. You will be seeing interviews with the likes of Joost de Valk, Marcus Tandler, Chris Sherman, Mike Grehan and Danny Sullivan, and off course our bloggers! Be aware that some interviews will be published in the newsletter!

Today: WordPress guru and SEO Joost de Valk (Yoast.com) (more…)

State of Search radioshow – episode 15: Microformats with Joost de Valk and Richard Baxter

A very special State of Search radioshow this time. Bas received guests Joost de Valk and Richard Baxter to discuss the topic of microformats. Richard discussed this topic in his post yesterday. Next to the what and why different questions from both the chartroom and the website were answered. A very informative show with hands-on tips to use.

The shownotes are below, all the links can also be found in the special delicious feed. (more…)