Joost de Valk

Internet entrepreneur

Improving the web one open source project, open standard, or better SEO’d website at a time.

Read my bi-annual CMS market share analysis, to see which CMSs are growing and which CMSs aren’t doing all that all well.

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Optimize crawling: let’s turn things around!

I wrote about crawl optimization last week, mostly about getting stuff that you don’t want crawled to not be crawled.…

Search engines rely on spiders / bots to crawl the web and find (new) content. Every time they find a…

There’s no more denying it: if you look at W3Techs CMS market share numbers, WordPress’ market share is shrinking, losing…

At the end of this month, I will transition to a different role at Yoast. No, I will not leave Yoast.…

Is Elementor the secret behind WordPress’ growth in the last years? We know from my CMS market share analysis that…

Today we announced that Yoast will join Newfold Digital. Marieke and myself, as well as Omar, Chaya and Thijs have…

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