The wonderful of interviewed me for his awesome podcast 20Growth. We talked about the journey of Yoast over the last 15 years that and I have been on, the angel investing we do now and much more!
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Super awesome to see mention at today, as we’ve also released the news about our investment in them today. ❤️
#yoastcon #YoastCon2023
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If you've ever touched WordPress, then you know
Imagine the founders want to invest in your startup.
It's a dream come true!
So breaking news:
WPCS secures investment from Emilia Capital 🙌
eu1.hubs.ly/H03KV7p0
#wordpress #investment #startup #vc #yoast #emilia
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Please help me report the instagram account “jostdevalk” (note, 1 o) for impersonating me…
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So far only 25% of the speakers announced for #WCEU are women (by name/photo), and only three appear to be non-white. Hoping to see some more inclusion in the next few rounds of announcements.
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Only one week until our 'pitch your best idea for a startup' will close! Don't hesitate to apply!
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What is the impact of AI on Search? I explored exactly that with my friend, visionary, and investor ! His explanations on how AI works are the most practical, best-explaining I've ever heard.
After the episodes with blockchain inventor and… Show more
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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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The wonderful started a very smart new project: WP Speakers.
See me and on there:
wpspeakers.com/speaker/mariek
wpspeakers.com/speaker/joost-
Should help everyone find good speakers for their events!
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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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As is saying goodbye to and ( yoast.com/saying-goodbye ), it’s also time for me to move on and say goodbye to Newfold.
After we sold Yoast to Newfold in 2021, I've enjoyed working with many of the talented people at both Yoast and Newfold. Most… 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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Click the above tweet and see the other errors. It’s pretty bad. I’d say 2/5 at best.
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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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Turns out there are errors in the example code too:
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Oh and 0, 1 and 5 what exactly? Oooooh days you mean: "unitCode": "DAY" 
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The third question:
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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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I also sent some feedback on the documentation. e.g. Can you supply an array of policies, is it a policy per country, or can you enter an array of countries for each policy. How do you specify the rest of the world.
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Google seriously needs to get better at this. It's not good for any of us that this process works like this.
Publish the spec. Say you updated it. Ask for feedback, wait for at least 2-3 months, *then* start rolling out the GSC warnings.
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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
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The wonderful Harry Stebbings of interviewed me for his awesome podcast 20Growth. We talked about the journey of Yoast over the last 15 years that and I have been on, the angel investing we do now and much more!
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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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𝗢𝗙𝗙𝗜𝗖𝗜𝗔𝗟: The Eredivisie is the 𝟲𝘁𝗵 league of Europe 🙌🇳🇱
↳ Extra #UCL and #UEL ticket from Portugal 🇵🇹
𝒪𝒷𝓇𝒾𝑔𝒶𝒹𝑜 𝒶𝓂𝒾𝑔𝑜𝓈 🎬
#UEFARanking
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The video of me and talking on - actually a longer edit of our conversation:
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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: 
5M+ active installations
350M+ downloads
12M+ revenue in 2022
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I wrote a guide on how to deal with #WordPress plugin security issues as a plugin developer, a first of more guides, if people like these:
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Just released a new podcast episode with special guests and discussing why #accessibility should be prioritized over #SEO. We also talk about stroopwafel liqueur - a delicious Dutch treat! #a11y
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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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If you’re investing in building a brand or business, run open source on your own domain.
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