This is where I have written about online marketing since 1998 and where others wrote about my work, always with the source included. From Stageplaza via link building to local SEO and AI search. Below is a short note per source, with a link to the original or an archived version. Most sources are in Dutch.
Independent sources and my own publications, from Stageplaza (1998) to the AI experiment in Dutch Cowboys (2026). Each source shows the date (where known) and a link to the original or an archived version.
The history page of Stageplaza states that Gijs Bodenstaff and Thijs Sins founded the internship platform in 1998. Gijs ran Stageplaza as managing director; in 2010 co-owner Rob Kriegsman took it over.
As managing director of Stageplaza, Gijs wrote on the platform's blog on 9 March 2007 about community service placements for pupils.
Emerce Wire published the news that Linkbuilding-Specialist.nl, the link building agency Gijs started in 2010, was listed in the Finest 50 of Jungle Minds, with the Olliewood.nl case.
Guest article by Gijs on Dutch Cowboys. Linkbuilding-Specialist, then based in Hoofddorp, interviewed three Dutch agencies and four international link builders, including Rand Fishkin of SEOmoz.
Emerce and Dutch Cowboys reported that the DDMA (Dutch data and marketing association) had set up a Search Committee, with Gijs Bodenstaff (Linkbuilding Specialist) as one of its seven members.
View at Emerce and Dutch Cowboys · Dutch Cowboys · Background
In his second guest article, Gijs let seven Dutch link builders and a Belgian colleague explain what still worked after the Panda updates. By then the agency was based in Amsterdam.
A 98-slide presentation by Linkbuilding-Specialist on link building and SEO after Google's Panda and Penguin updates.
In the column Ik vertrok, Marloes Meijer tells how she came up with the idea for DushiDeals during a holiday in Curaçao with her partner Gijs. She founded the deals website.
Video on the YouTube channel of Linkbuilding-Specialist, Gijs's agency, with link building tips from Rand Fishkin, co-founder of Moz and founder of SparkToro.
Blog post by Gijs with eleven tips to make videos easier to find on YouTube, with a reference to the Online Video Marketing Academy channel.
Jeroen de Hooge described in Dutch Cowboys the experiment by Stanley Leijnse, in which a made-up hobby of Gijs Bodenstaff appeared as fact in Google Gemini within an hour.
Local SEO 2026 by Gijs Bodenstaff, a Dutch-language book, is listed in Google Books: LocalSEOLab, 17 July 2026, 122 pages, ISBN 9798187450541. His 2027 books followed in September 2026.