mariekerakt

Member Since: November 26th, 2015
Location: Wijchen
Website: yoast.com
Job Title: Partner
Employer: Yoast
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Marieke van de Rakt is the Chief Strategy Officer of Yoast. She founded Yoast Academy and next to that manages marketing and the Yoast project teams. Her favorite SEO topics are SEO copywriting and site structure.

Marieke studied Sociology and Communication Sciences at the Radboud University in Nijmegen. She obtained her PhD in Social Sciences in January 2011. Since then, she worked as a researcher as well as a teacher at multiple universities. Since the beginning of Yoast, Marieke has been involved in the company. As of September 2013, she gave up my position at the university and decided to focus solely on my activities at Yoast.

She is now one of the partners at Yoast. Together with Joost, Michiel and Omar, Marieke runs Yoast. Her main focus is on Academy; she develops products that help people to set up their own SEO strategy. Marieke writes blog posts, eBooks and develop online courses. Marieke is married to Joost de Valk and they have four amazing children together.

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I first started working with WordPress when my husband build a website for me. At that point, I was working at universities, doing criminological research. As Yoast grew, I became more involved with WordPress. I really love open source. I think it is the best way to grow and to evolve. Scientific research and open source are in many ways very similar. My love for WordPress comes from my love for open source!

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Confirmed as a speaker for WordCamp Nijmegen 2019 coming up on September 20th

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Confirmed as a speaker for WordCamp Torino 2019 coming up on April 5th

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Confirmed as a speaker for WordCamp Europe 2019 coming up on June 21st

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Confirmed as a speaker for WordCamp US 2018 coming up on December 7th

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Confirmed as a speaker for WordCamp Nijmegen 2018 coming up on August 30th

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Confirmed as a speaker for WordCamp Brighton 2018 coming up on August 17th

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Confirmed as a speaker for WordCamp Porto 2018 coming up on May 18th

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Confirmed as a speaker for WordCamp Europe 2018 coming up on June 14th

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Confirmed as a speaker for WordCamp Nijmegen 2017 coming up on September 1st

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Confirmed as a speaker for WordCamp Utrecht 2017 coming up on November 25th

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Confirmed as a speaker for WordCamp Vienna, Austria 2017 coming up on April 22nd

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Confirmed as a speaker for WordCamp Nederland 2016 coming up on October 14th

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Confirmed as a speaker for WordCamp Europe 2016 coming up on June 24th

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