Author Archives: Joost de Valk

About Joost de Valk

Joost is a WordPress developer and SEO from the Netherlands. He blogs on Yoast.com, develops and maintains tons of WordPress plugins, writes about WordPress SEO and WordPress hosting and has fun with the community on WordCamps throughout the world and on this podcast.

Next to all those WordPress related chores, Joost also maintains Quix, a command line like tool for your (mobile) browser.

You can hire Joost for WordPress consulting or SEO consulting.

Listen to Liz Strauss: “Treat Your Blog Like a Business!”

Posted on September 1, 2010 by Joost de Valk | 2 Comments »

Liz Strauss gave a masterclass tonight; at least, that’s how it felt to both Frederick and myself. We talked about communicating with your audience, and Liz shared some experiences about open comment nights. We discussed positioning yourself and your blog, … Continue reading →

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Matt Mullenweg interview – Part II

Posted on August 17, 2010 by Joost de Valk | 3 Comments »

In this second part of our interview with Matt (you have listened to the first part, right?), we discuss VaultPress; Automattic’s new backup system. Matt explains the features, pricing. Going from that we discussed hosting and their uptimes. Then the … Continue reading →

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Interview with Matt Mullenweg – part I

Posted on August 10, 2010 by Joost de Valk | 17 Comments »

Joost and Frederick interview the founder of WordPress, Matt Mullenweg, talking about loads of things. The entire interview was split in 2 because it was a bit lengthy, so you’ll hear part 2 next week. In this part we discussed … Continue reading →

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Diving deeply into Google Analytics with Justin Cutroni

Posted on July 13, 2010 by Joost de Valk | 5 Comments »

Let me give you some advice first: listen to this podcast with your Google Analyics account open and in front of you. Justin Cutroni, this weeks guest, is an asbolute expert on Google Analytics, and he shows by explaining in … Continue reading →

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Digging into CSS Trickery & WordPress

Posted on June 23, 2010 by Joost de Valk | 7 Comments »

Today Joost is joined by Chris Coyier, one of the authors of Digging into WordPress and the founder of CSS Tricks. Chris and Joost talk about a lot of different subjects, ranging from their individual history with CSS sites to … Continue reading →

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