Beginning a new chapter at Yoast

Last week, I decided to step down as CEO of Yoast. I am not leaving Yoast (and I am not leaving Joost either), I just don’t want to be the captain of the ship anymore. I am honored and proud to have led the company for the past years. But I am also excited to …

16 reasons why I love Joost de Valk

This week, we had our 16.0 release of Yoast SEO! To celebrate, I wrote a post in which I described 16 reasons why to love Yoast SEO. While writing that post, I told Thijs de Valk about what I was writing. Thijs misunderstood and thought I was writing a post on 16 reasons why to …

I am the new CEO of Yoast!

I am the new CEO of Yoast! Wow. That’s so very awesome. I am really proud to take the lead in this amazing company. For some time now, we have been running Yoast with a team of four partners. Besides myself, we have Omar Reiss, our CTO, an unbelievably smart visionary. Michiel Heijmans, our COO, …