Thoughts on building marketing & growth capabilities
What tools am I using for SEO?
A while back somebody posted the SEO platforms/vendors/tools that he was using at his agency job (as an SEO). Me missing some great tools in there decided to respond but it also got me thinking about my own toolset and decided to dedicate a blog post to it, to get better recommendations and learn from […]
From 99% ‘duplicate content’ to 15 editors and back to ‘duplicate content’
Duplicate content is (according to questions from new SEOs and people in online marketing) still one of the biggest issues in Search Engine Optimization. I’ve got news for you, it for sure isn’t as there are plenty of other issues. But somehow it still always comes up to the surface when talking about SEO. As […]
Retrieving Search Analytics Data from the Google Search Console API for Bulk Keyword Research
Last year I blogged about using 855 properties to retrieve all your Search Analytics data. Just after that Google luckily released that the limits on the API to retrieve only the top 5000 results had been lifted. Since then it’s been possible to potentially pull all your keywords from Google Search Console via their API […]
Making a move … what’s next!?
Last week was my last one at The Next Web as their Director of Marketing. For the last four years I’ve worked alongside great people: publishing the best content (TNW), organising the best + biggest tech conferences (TNW Conferences), selling the craziest drones (TNW Deals), creating the most beautiful workspace (TQ) and them who collect […]
Why giving back is so important, help out
Getting more experience can be hard when you’re just starting with your career. You’re either trying to hope to get into an internship, your first job or if you’re making a career move you just need the experience to keep up. But you’re living in a great time to get there as there are many […]
Introducing: the Google Tag Manager & Google Analytics for AMP – WordPress Plugin
Today it’s time to make it easier for sites running AMP on WordPress to track & measure their web site traffic. Over the past weeks I’ve been working on a WordPress Plugin which supports adding Google Tag Manager and Google Analytics to your AMP pages. As AMP itself is quite a hard new platform to […]
Moving away from onclick events, data attributes it is
Onclick attributes are amazing to easily sent some data to the dataLayer. It will make sure that on every click the data is being sent, let’s for example look at this: <a href=”http://example.com” onclick=”dataLayer.push({‘eventCategory’:’Click’, ‘eventAction’:’This Link’, ’eventLabel’:’Anchor Text’});”>Link</a> Looks valid right? It is and it will work for you. But the problem is that with […]
The discovery & benefits of using ga:dataSource in Google Analytics
As there is always something new to learn in this world I recently came across (by a tip from Simon Vreeman) the dimension: dataSource in Google Analytics. It’s one that isn’t very well known, as it’s not available through any of the default reports, but can help bigger companies with integrations in multiple places in […]
What am I reading in 2017?
In August I wrote about what I did/was/would be reading in 2016. Although I haven’t finished reading all these books I have already planned on reading a ton of new books this year. My goal is to read even more, to get smarter, read about new things and just dive into more knowledge. So far that’s […]
Oh no! You’re also starting a blog?
Yes! I’m sorry ;). For the past two years I blogged mainly on The Next Web around how we do Marketing for The Next Web, did some guest posts and tried out Medium (not great for sharing code snippets). But during that time I felt the need for a personal blog that I could use to share some […]