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Video: Ben Cook on site migrations & the earlier days in SEO

I had the privilege of sitting down with Ben Cook, an industry vet, at the Perficient Digital offices in St. Louis. We talked about some of the earlier days of SEO, which were somewhat like the wild wild west. We also talked a bit about the acquisitions his firm has been doing over the past few years in the SEO space.

Ben Cook also shared some stories around site migrations. He said it is sometimes interesting the issues that occur with site migrations, most being pretty simple and easy to fix, but it is about checking and double-checking to make sure all your basis are covered.

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Barry Schwartz
Barry Schwartz is a technologist and a Contributing Editor to Search Engine Land and a member of the programming team for SMX events. He owns RustyBrick, a NY based web consulting firm. He also runs Search Engine Roundtable, a popular search blog on very advanced SEM topics.

In 2019, Barry was awarded the Outstanding Community Services Award from Search Engine Land, in 2018 he was awarded the US Search Awards the "US Search Personality Of The Year," you can learn more over here and in 2023 he was listed as a top 50 most influential PPCer by Marketing O'Clock.

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