I\u2019m the founder and Chief Product Officer at Yoast, and a WordPress \/ web developer, SEO and online marketer. You should use some of our WordPress plugins or follow one of our online courses.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
I love open source, marketing (particularly technical SEO) and helping businesses excel online. In my spare time, I love hanging out with my wife & kids, drinking good drinks and eating good food. If I need \u201calone\u201d time, it\u2019s usually spent coding or gaming on my iPhone.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
I started working with WordPress in 2006, while building css3.info and my personal site which was, back then, still joostdevalk.nl. As I was also working as an SEO consultant and wanted to improve the SEO of my sites, to scratch my own itch I started building SEO plugins. In doing this I found things in core needed fixing so I also started contributing to WordPress core in 2007. I later combined my several SEO plugins into \u201cthe\u201d WordPress SEO plugin, later renamed to Yoast SEO.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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