Thoughts on building marketing & growth capabilities
Experimentation for Product instead of Conversion improvements
Over the last years, I’ve had many (healthy) debates with product, brand and growth teams on what experiments to run and for what reason. In some cases, it was easier to run brand or product experiments just like a regular experiment to improve conversion rate. But in the some of them there was fear that […]
Joining RVshare!
I’m joining RVshare, a two-sided marketplace for RVs and motorhomes, as their VP Marketing! Over the last few weeks, I’ve talked extensively with the founders and part of the team. It became clear that this was a great opportunity for a few reasons. Why RVshare? They have great product-market fit and proved this concept clearly […]
Measuring Content Performance: Content Engagement Metrics
What is the effectiveness of our content, how well does our content work? Who is writing the best content? What should we be writing about next? These were the top X questions I received on a weekly basis while working at The Next Web. And I’m probably not the only one, I hear a lot […]
Why & What alerts in SEO are becoming more important
We have all been there, haven’t we? Quotes like: “SH*T, my sitemaps are broken”, “I have no-indexed half my pages” or: “I have been kicked out of a search engine with way too many pages” sound familiar? Honestly, I can’t blame you. It’s getting harder and harder to keep track of all the changes that […]
Growing as an SEO (1/4) – Writing better Job Descriptions for SEO Roles
Writing a resume isn’t fun (IMHO) and writing job descriptions is probably even less fun. Over the last years I’ve written many of them, usually following a similar template that would help us define what the role is about. Which isn’t always a good thing, depending on the seniority of the role you want to […]
Exporting Amplitude Data to Google BigQuery
I’ve written about using Amplitude before on this blog (in Dutch), but what if you want to combine the huge amount of data that you have in Amplitude with your other big data. The Enterprise version gives you the ability to export your data to a Redshift cluster. But a lot of companies these days are […]
Sitemaps; Setup, Monitoring & Metrics for Analysis
In my effort to write longer posts on a specific topic I thought it was time to shed some light on something that we’ve been working on during the last months at Postmates and something that I never thought of as a topic that could become interesting: sitemaps. They’re pretty boring in itself, it’s a […]
Using Amplitude for Product & Web Analytics
I’ve previously published this blog post in Dutch on Webanalisten.nl. What if you are looking for a product for web analytics but have a lot of events, a complicated product and sending more and more data over time. Sometimes it wouldn’t just work to go with Google Analytics (360), Adobe Analytics and maybe integrating your […]
Dealing with SEO within your company / internally
“My company/manager/CEO doesn’t understand SEO, my engineers have no idea on how to implement X, I don’t get the buy-in that I need.” Just some of the comments that I hear in real life and see pass by on Twitter. That’s why in late 2017 I asked this question on Twitter. So that’s why I […]
What is SEO Experimentation?
If you’ve been reading some of my blog posts in the past you’ll have noticed that I worked a lot on analytics, experimentation, and SEO. Having been able to combine these areas together has led to the point that for both Postmates and The Next Web previously, we worked on setting up a framework for […]