Recently we had interviewed Joost de Valk who is a founder and CEO of Yoast.com.
Mr. Joost is a 34 year old web developer, SEO and online marketer who live near Nijmegen, where Yoast also has its main offices. He lives there with his lovely wife Marieke, and their four kids: Tycho, Wende ,Ravi, Borre.
Outside of work he loves to read, do some photography and play games with his kids.
Career Journey
In the early days of his career he worked in several companies, ranging from enterprise hosting to online marketing agencies. This allowed him to work with several large brands around the world.
He founded CSS3.info – the biggest CSS3 resource on the web – in 2006 and sold it in 2009. Early 2010, he built Quix, which was featured in many online publications from Mashable to Lifehacker and ReadWriteWeb.
In 2010 he 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.
Here is our one on one interview session with Mr. Joost
Varun: Technology is advancing with each passing day as far as Online Marketing is concerned. Can we see these below upgrades in Yoast SEO in future?
a) Schema is in trend in the current scenario and Yoast enables us to implement some schema markup like video, breadcrumb, local and Search in Sitelinks. Can we see some upgrade in Yoast SEO in near future to implement more advance schema markup as well?
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This was a short interview with Mr. Joost de Valk. We really thank him for sparing some time from his busy schedule for the interview. We truly believe his experience and valuable tips will be beneficial for all of us.
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Started working as a digital marketing expert, Varun Sharma is now also a well-known digital marketing speaker – a speaker on performance development, and a trusted mentor to businesses in the digital world. His keynote expositions are based on the digital marketing theories, which provide a fascinating insight into the secrets of high performance.