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Joost de Valk
Position: CEO and Founder at Yoast
Overview
I’m a 34 year old web developer, SEO and online marketer. In the early days of my career I worked in several companies, ranging from enterprise hosting to online marketing agencies. This allowed me to work with several large brands around the world.
I founded CSS3.info – the biggest CSS3 resource on the web – in 2006 and sold it in 2009. Early 2010 I built Quix, which was featured in many online publications from Mashable to Lifehacker and ReadWriteWeb.
In 2010 I founded Yoast, which focuses on software, training and services for website optimization. Team Yoast currently consists of 30 people. Yoast SEO, Yoast’s main software product, is currently available for two platforms and active on around 4 million websites.
Publications
Content SEO
Yoast
February 2015
A lot of blog posts and books around SEO focus on the technical aspects. However, 90% of your ranking is not determined by the technical aspects but by your content and how you’ve optimized that. This book on Content SEO tells you everything you need to know about creating SEO and user friendly content. Besides in-depth explanations to help you understand content SEO, the book also has lots of practical tips that you can implement right away. Whether it’s how to do keyword research, how to structure your site or how to write that piece of content that people want to link to, this book covers it all.
Experience
Founder & CEO
Yoast
May 2010 - Present
Advisor
Student.com
September 2015 - Present
Founder & Lead Developer
Quix
January 2010 - Present
Host
IAB Task Force Search
January 2009 - November 2010
Principal Consultant
OrangeValley
October 2008 - November 2010
Committer
WebKit Open Source Project
February 2006 - February 2010
