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 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.

Is buying backlinks safe?

No. Bought links violate search engine guidelines, and the failure mode is losing the site rather than losing the gain. It works until detection, and every recovery I have seen cost more than the shortcut saved.

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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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What the 2024 policy change actually did

It replaced "automatically generated content" with "scaled content abuse", removing the argument that human review made mass production acceptable. The question is now the purpose and value of the pages, not the tool that produced them.

The test to apply to any page

Does it say something specific that a reader could not have guessed?
Does it demonstrate first-hand experience, or summarise what others wrote?
Would someone finish it and feel they need to search again?
Was it produced because a keyword tool suggested it?

The practical position

Using AI inside a process with real editorial judgement is not the problem. Publishing three hundred pages that each restate their own title is the problem, and it was a problem before AI made it faster.

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.