Do blogs still help SEO?

Genuinely useful content still works; publishing posts because a schedule says so does not. For a site with no authority, informational content is the only realistic way to enter a SERP at all — and the only mechanism that earns links without buying them.

How do I find keywords for my business?

Start with Search Console query data if you have any impressions at all — it is the only record of what people actually typed to reach you. Then autocomplete, People Also Ask, and the questions clients ask on calls, which almost nobody mines.

Is AI-written content bad for SEO?

Google’s position is that how content is produced matters less than whether it is useful. What is penalised is scaled content abuse — generating many pages primarily to manipulate rankings — and that applies to human-written filler exactly as much as machine-written filler.

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How many pages should my website have?

As many as you can fill with something genuinely useful, and no more. Six pages of honest, specific content beat thirty of filler in both directions — buyers read them and search engines rank them. Page count is an output, not a target.

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The pages almost every business needs

One page per service you actually sell — not one page listing all of them
Pricing, or at least an explanation of what changes the number
Proof: work you have done, with links that open
About, with a real person on it
Contact, with a real route rather than only a form
Terms, privacy and refund policy

Why filler actively hurts

Google’s helpful content assessment looks at a site as a whole. A large volume of unhelpful pages can suppress the ones that are good, which makes removing or improving weak pages a legitimate optimisation.

When more pages genuinely help

When each answers a distinct question someone actually asks. That is the test — not word count, not a target number, and not what a competitor happens to have.

The longer version

This answer is deliberately short. If you want the full treatment, The 35 types of SEO, explained without the padding covers it in about 6 minutes — free, ungated, written from client work.

Who answered this

Anas Bin Masud builds e-commerce sites and does technical SEO for businesses in the UK, Canada and Pakistan — fifteen live client sites, six of them stores taking real payments. These answers come from those projects rather than from a content brief. More about how I work, or ask me something directly.