Marieke van de Rakt

Yoast Readability Analysis is celebrating its…

Dan Knauss

May 14, 2021

Yoast Readability Analysis is celebrating its 5th anniversary. In just five years they have made readability analysis available in over 15 languages! 🙌 Camille Cunningham has posted an interview between CEO Marieke van de Rakt and Irene Strikkers that explains…

It appears that Yoast founder Joost…

Dan Knauss

September 2, 2020

It appears that Yoast founder Joost de Valk and Yoast’s current CEO Marieke van de Rakt have a stake in WordProof, which is building a Timestamp Ecosystem that will support multiple blockchains to verify online content. Wordproof explains the SEO…

For Black Friday, Yoast released an…

Dan Knauss

December 6, 2019

For Black Friday, Yoast released an update that placed an animated banner on the dashboards of all WordPress admin pages where it was installed. This resulted in some negative feedback and discussions about ad policies from plugin companies. Yoast was…

This month the “People of WordPress”…

Dan Knauss

November 22, 2019

This month the "People of WordPress" spot honors Kim Parsell, who was also known as #wpmom before she passed in 2015. If you are relatively new to the WordPress scene, take a moment to read about Kim and get to…

Congrats to Marieke van de Rakt…

Dan Knauss

January 31, 2019

Congrats to Marieke van de Rakt who is the new CEO of Yoast! Marieke is the founder of Yoast Academy as well as the former Chief Strategy Officer at Yoast. In this new role, Marieke is replacing Yoast founder Joost…