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Joost de Valk
@jdevalk
Internet entrepreneur • Investor at • Founder of • Husband of • Father of 4 • 🇪🇺 • he/him
EntrepreneurWijchen, Nederlandjoost.blog/about-me/Joined March 2009

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Ugh customer service really can’t do anything right in one go it seems. I specify, in 1 message, 2 bookings that need to be rebooked, one for me, one for my family. They rebook my family, not me. How?? 🤦🏻‍♂️
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I think it’s time for some people in the WordPress plugin ecosystem to take note…
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Udemy has agreed to pay $4,000,000 to settle a case alleging it advertised fake discounts for its courses. Remember: using fake reference prices to run sales is illegal under the FTC Act and California's laws. 1/
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So… Twitter. I have a very active account on my Yoast account. Unfortunately, I need to give up that account soon. There seems to be no way for me to transfer those reviews etc to another Google account. Please help me find a solution…
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Dear , trying to login with my Google account on mobile; it says “if you already have an account we’ll log you in”, and then I get this error. If I can login through Google with that email, proving ownership, don’t you think you could log me in, instead of making me… Show more
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The response to this has been amazing 😃 If I can ask one thing: please spread the word! New founders in the #WordPress space may not follow me or . You can really help us *and* them by spreading the word to everyone who this might be a fit for 😇 See you at #WCEU!
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At @WCEurope this year, @MariekeRakt and I will listen to you pitching your idea / product / service, if you're looking for investment! @emiliacapital is proud to sponsor WordCamp Europe, the event we love so much, and we'd love to see you there! emilia.capital/sponsor-wordca
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This thread is a really interesting example of why I worry about the integration of AI into bigger products. highlights a new ‘summarise’ option in Microsoft Edge and then spends some time with others pitching in trying to work out if it reads a whole document…
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This is very cool: it has become a lot easier to read academic research. If you open a paper in Microsoft Edge (I know, I know), the Bing AI sidebar can read the PDF and you can ask it questions about the paper. (I checked & the results seem high-quality, but be careful with AI)
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At this year, and I will listen to you pitching your idea / product / service, if you're looking for investment! is proud to sponsor WordCamp Europe, the event we love so much, and we'd love to see you there!
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The third question:
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Replying to @TonyMcCreath @JarnoVanDriel and 2 others
And what happens if I declare this at an Organization-level (which is valid/intuitive), rather than a Product-level? Or, both? This is a *merchant* return policy, after all, not a *product* return policy (or more confusing still, an *offer* return policy). How do these interact?
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So I start looking at the spec. Turns out, the experts still have quite a few questions about this specification (will link to tweets in replies to this tweet). But Google is already urging people to implement it.
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Yesterday, Google added new docs for Return Policy Schema. Today, I see the first errors in GSC for a company we've invested in with . An error for "hasMerchantReturnPolicy". I sigh, as once again Google gave no fair warning of this before it came out... 1/x
Screenshot of Google Search Console warnings for missing hasMerchantReturnPolicy
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Feels like Google is dissing Bing, quoting from the report below: “We’ve been bringing AI to Google Search for years to not only dramatically improve the quality of our results, but also introduce entirely new ways to search, such as Lens and multisearch. We’ve done so in a… Show more
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Google is working on an all-new search engine to incorporate more AI while at the same time working on Project Magi for more short term changes to the existing search engine searchengineland.com/google-plannin
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Had an incredible amount of fun talking to on 20growth, with maybe some interesting takeaways for you if you’re in WordPress, VC, or both!
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In 2010, @jdevalk hacked together an all-in-one SEO plugin as a hobby. Today, @yoast is one of the world’s leading SEO plugins: 🧑‍💻 5M+ active installations 💻 350M+ downloads 💲 12M+ revenue in 2022 I broke down 10 lessons from our 20Growth: 🔥👇
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I have an idea. Remember when we used to blog? How about we start doing that again a bit more frequently? Comment on each other’s blogs (time to re-enable those comments people!) and use pingbacks and trackbacks. Let’s not exchange Twitter for yet another platform we don’t own.
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