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The big difference was that with the 5 articles I wasn't trying to optimize actually got more engagement from my visitors and the optimized articles seemed to get a little more traffic but much less engagement. So, you'll have to be a judge for yourself and think about what you want more. I might not have had set up my 5 optimized articles just right, which is why their engagement was low, or it could be better to just write content you want to read and engage with your readers to build authority and trust over time. It's up to you
Some of the best ways to start off with SEO is to just write content you would want to read. I do this all the time and start to realize my authentic content, that isn't highly optimized, actually does better than the content that I take my time optimizing for the search engines lol :D
The algorithms are always changing and you should adapt now for future changes. Those changes will likely factor in everything you've said, but they also want to see genuine content that helps out the reader. I've actually tested this on my own sites and seen some interesting things. Of course, my authority comes into play with this, so the experiments I did can't be used as examples for other peoples work, but you can get an idea of what's to come :)
What I did
I wrote 10 long form articles no less than 2,500 words for a single website of mine. I wrote 5 of these free hand and didn't think much about what was going into them in terms of SEO and then I wrote 5 articles that were optimized for the search engines. My first 5 articles, the ones that I didn't really focus on optimization, were easy to read and felt like they had more human interaction within them. The 5 articles that I wrote and optimized seemed a little more robotic because I had to plant certain words within areas they may not have fit best.
After I posted, formatted, and published all 10 articles I went about my day and just kept working. After about a month (30 days) I started to look at the statistics for the 10 articles and realized that the 5 I wrote without optimizing too much actually did just as well as the ones I took time to optimize lol :D The big difference was that with the 5 articles I wasn't trying to optimize actually got more engagement from my visitors and the optimized articles seemed to get a little more traffic but much less engagement. So, you'll have to be a judge for yourself and think about what you want more. I might not have had set up my 5 optimized articles just right, which is why their engagement was low, or it could be better to just write content you want to read and engage with your readers to build authority and trust over time. It's up to you :)
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