38:19 Mar 13, 2026
Joost de Valk on Building Yoast SEO, Open Source Curiosity, and Life After The Plugin
Interview with Joost de Valk on building Yoast SEO, open source curiosity, and life after the plugin.
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Keynote: Sustainable open source is the future
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Joost de Valk, CEO of Emilia Capital, on Open Source and Investing in the Future of the Web | E61
In WP Legends Episode 61, we sit down with Joost de Valk, CEO of Emilia Capital. Discover Joost's journey from creating one of the most recognized...
32:04 Sep 18, 2025
Fixing WordPress’ Biggest Problem - Supply Chain Security | Karim Marucchi, Joost de Valk
Discussion with Karim Marucchi and Joost de Valk on WordPress supply chain security.
11:29 Jul 2, 2025
Keynote: Rebuilding Trust: A FAIR Path Forward for WordPress and Open Source | Karim Marucchi & Joost de Valk
Keynote on rebuilding trust and a FAIR path forward for WordPress and open source with Karim Marucchi and Joost de Valk.
16:32 Jun 26, 2025
Karim Marucchi & Joost de Valk | Open Source Summit 2025
Conversation with Karim Marucchi and Joost de Valk at Open Source Summit 2025.
26:55 Jun 10, 2025
Panel Discussion “The Future of WordPress” with Francesca Marano, Joost de Valk and Sé Reed.
Panel discussion on the future of WordPress with Francesca Marano, Joost de Valk, and Sé Reed.
55:45 Apr 2, 2025
AI, SEO, and Automation: How to start marketing a new product category? Interview with Joost de Valk
🎙 Welcome back to Osom to Know! In this episode we discuss about AI’s role in speeding development of products and servicese. Our guest is Joost d...
24:18 Oct 11, 2024
AnyoneCanWP Hackathon Keynote by Joost de Valk from Yoast SEO and Emilia Capital
Hackathon keynote by Joost de Valk for AnyoneCanWP, on WordPress, products, and the open web.
39:36 Apr 29, 2024
WPCoffeeTalk: Joost de Valk
Michelle Frechette talks with Joost de Valk on WPCoffeeTalk about his WordPress background, Yoast, Emilia Capital, open source, and the wider WordP...
36:43 Apr 16, 2024
Joost de Valk on the Power of Raising Funds In Bootstrapping Ecosystems
Joost de Valk quite literally changed the WordPress SEO landscape with his company Yoast. What started as a small bootstrapped product grew into a...
1:12 Nov 16, 2023
Joost de Valk (Yoast) on His Spectacular Business Fail + Lessons Learned
We don’t talk about failure nearly enough in the software world ☠️ The mistakes and hard lessons learned from %^\u0026*@!ing up spectacularly are s...
49:23 May 23, 2023
Mastering WordPress Product Branding with Joost de Valk | WP Product Talk
Joost de Valk talks about building and branding WordPress products on WP Product Talk.
46:53 May 12, 2023
Joost de Valk on the impact of AI on Search Engine Optimization | Trusted Web Podcast S3E3
Joost de Valk is an entrepreneur and investor from the Netherlands who is best known for founding Yoast SEO (13 million+ users). Joost started out...
1:02:01 Apr 12, 2023
Joost de Valk: How I Founded Yoast; The Ultimate Guide to SEO; The Threat of AI | E1000
Joost De Valk is one of the OGs of SEO. As the Founder of Yoast, he scaled what was a side project plugin into a multi-million dollar business, use...
50:58 Nov 17, 2022
Improve the environment. Start with your website!
Your website runs on a server. That server uses power. Making your Website more efficient and avoiding unnecessary visits to your Website leads to...
33:46 Aug 16, 2022
10 years of Yoast
This page features a video presentation from YoastCon where Joost de Valk discusses Yoast's mission of "SEO for Everyone" and how the company opera...
30:08 Aug 16, 2022
Why timestamping will be good for SEO
In this video I discuss with Bas, the founder of [WordProof](https://wordproof.com), why timestamping is awesome.
35:28 Nov 21, 2021
Eclipsing 33% of the Web (Joost de Valk, Yoast and WordPress)
Joe Howard and Joost de Valk discuss SEO, WordPress, the story behind Yoast, and WordPress growth on the WPMRR podcast.
38:40 Jul 14, 2021
Joost de Valk on improving the web, schema, and the CMS market
In this Tech Bound podcast, I speak with legendary founder Joost de Valk about the importance of Schema for the web, the CMS landscape, and SEO Fit...
26:48 Nov 17, 2020
Joost de Valk,Marieke van de Rakt: Growing a Multi-Million Dollar Business with a WordPress plugin
What started out as a hobby and a passion grew into a successful business. Joost de Valk built the WordPress SEO plugin mainly as a hobby. In his w...
36:28 Oct 26, 2020
Joost de Valk: Making sure your content is found – 2020 edition
10 years after presenting at WordCamp Bulgaria for the first time, Joost is back, presenting with the exact same topic, but wildly improved suggest...
40:24 Jun 15, 2020
The Brightest Minds Podcast Episode 2 | Joost de Valk of SEO Yoast
The Brightest Minds Podcast Episode 2 | Joost de Valk of SEO Yoast Kris Jones interviews Yoast SEO Plugin Founder Joost de Valk. The Yoast SEO Plug...
44:14 Sep 12, 2019
Joost De Valk : WordPress SEO in 2019
Joost is going to describe at his presentation what’s needed for a site to rank well in 2019 and what you need in order to achieve that. In this ta...
36:24 Mar 26, 2019
Joost de Valk (Yoast): "Als wij willen groeien moet Wordpress groeien"
Website optimalisatie is belangrijk op het hedendaagse internet. Yoast helpt daarbij. Met software en cursussen. Oprichter Joost de Valk vertelt in...
42:24 Jan 2, 2019
Joost de Valk and Marieke van de Rakt: Thrive for the future – the business of open source
For an open source community to thrive, it’s important that valid business models surround it. In this talk Marieke and I will discuss why a busine...
3:46 Sep 30, 2018
Interview with Joost De Valk
#YOAST A little snippet of my recent interview with Joost from Yoast. What a lovely chap he was! Podcast coming out next week. Search for THE RECIP...
42:13 Jul 11, 2018
Joost de Valk: Technical SEO to grow your WordPress business
Are you a developer who builds websites, large or small? Are your clients asking hard questions about Google, or are some of their sites not rankin...
Jun 27, 2018
Joost de Valk discusses the Yoast Diversity Fund
Yoast Diversity Fund interview
1:01:30 Mar 29, 2018
SEO with Yoast for TYPO3 - Joost de Valk (Yoast) - Richard Haeser (MaxServ)
Presentation on SEO with Yoast for TYPO3 by Joost de Valk and Richard Haeser.
48:20 Feb 6, 2018
AWP Gutenberg Interview Series with Joost de Valk
This is the first of FOUR interviews we are doing in February 2018. This series is focused on the upcoming new block-based editor coming to WordPre...
28:40 Jan 3, 2018
SEO Secrets with Joost de Valk - WP Elevation WordPress Business Podcast - Episode 126
Love this interview? Why not subscribe to the Podcast - https://wplv.io/v1mlrd As of right now, there are 6.5 million people with the Yoast plugin,...
44:05 Dec 11, 2016
Joost de Valk: WordPress and SEO in 2016
WordPress has come a long way since Matt Cutts first spoke about SEO at WordCamp SF in 2007. The platform has changed and improved much of its SEO...
22:47 Jun 29, 2016
Marieke van de Rakt & Joost de Valk: Beyond SEO – Copywriting for professionals
SEO has gone from a technical trade to being more marketing focussed. Joost & Marieke will talk about how to gain great rankings & satisfied visito...
53:41 Feb 2, 2016
Joost de Valk founder and CEO of Yoast SEO Plugin for WordPress - Search Talk Live
Search Talk Live interview with Joost de Valk about Yoast SEO, WordPress, and search.
30:27 Oct 19, 2015
Joost de Valk: Holistic SEO
Everyone wants more traffic to their sites. To get more traffic, your site needs to perform well in search engines. People need to share your stori...
28:33 Nov 20, 2014
Joost de Valk: The Devastating Power of Defaults
Every plugin or theme developer who’s done a lot of development has learned that developing the backend often takes more time than developing the f...
17:59 Dec 12, 2013
Joost de Valk: The Victory of the Commons
If you’re running a business based on open source software like WordPress, your business depends on the prosperity of that project. The demise of t...
8:44 Oct 9, 2011
OMReport.com - Joost de Valk Part 1/2
OMReport.com Interview with Joost de Valk and host Andre Alpar Part 1/2
7:47 Oct 9, 2011
OMReport.com - Joost de Valk Part 2/2
OMReport.com interview with Joost de Valk and host Andre Alpar, part 2 of 2.
40:31 Oct 2, 2010
Joost de Valk: Making sure your content is found
A video appearance by Joost de Valk: Joost de Valk: Making sure your content is found.
52:13 Feb 4, 2009
WordPress SEO & Optimization Strategies
Joost De Valk's presentation on SEO and optimization strategies for your installation of WordPress. Check out the accompanyi...