As a content strategist, I always advise my clients to pursue a hybrid approach. Some posts have to be purely SEO focused with heavily optimized content. Some should be focused on driving social shares. And some should simply talk to people like regular human beings, not search engine crawlers.
Even with minimal backlinking, this strategy has helped grow traffic from 10k to 250k
Even with minimal backlinking, this strategy has helped grow traffic from 10k to 250k