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Writing / Rob Garner

Twenty years of writing it down.

Read the thinking behind our work: Rob's current search strategy, his 150-plus MediaPost columns and his books. A publication record you can follow from search and social to AI answers.

Book cover of Search and Social: The Definitive Guide to Real-Time Content Marketing by Rob Garner
Search and Social: The Definitive Guide to Real-Time Content Marketing. Wiley/Sybex, 2012
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Search Engine Land

06 Bylines

The current byline: llms.txt, GEO, AIO, and context-first strategy. These pieces describe the work we now do for clients.

  1. 2026-07-01

    In memoriam: A tribute to Bruce Clay

  2. 2026-02-27

    How to build a context-first AI search optimization strategy

  3. 2025-09-24

    The origins of SEO and what they mean for GEO and AIO

  4. 2025-03-28

    Meet llms.txt, a proposed standard for AI website content crawling

  5. 2024-08-26

    Reframing SEO: Why training search engines is the new game in the age of AI

  6. 2024-02-26

    How SMBs are approaching digital marketing in 2024

Author page at Search Engine Land
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Search Engine Journal

02 Bylines

Content measurement, back when the question was which numbers to trust.

  1. 2019-01-03

    15 Things to Consider Before Choosing Your Content KPIs

  2. 2017-04-27

    69 Questions That Will Improve Your Content Marketing Performance

Author page at Search Engine Journal
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Books

02 Books

Rob Garner
Rob GarnerSearch and strategy
Portrait of Lam Hoang
Lam HoangSystems and engineering

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