Keywords Or Topics: When It Comes To SEO, Which Is Best For Blogging?

If you've been in the SEO world for any amount of time, you've probably heard all of these statements at some point: SEO is dead. SEO is alive and well. All of your blog posts must come from keywords. You should stop wasting time with keywords.

SEO gurus have been saying things that contradict each other over and over again. So, who's right?

The answer is, as it usually goes in these types of arguments, no one. But also no one is completely wrong. If you ask any of the people who defend either side of the argument, they will most likely tell you that they have results to prove their claims. The problem is the tendency to confuse causation with correlation when it comes to search engine ranking. So what should you do if you want your blog to rank well in the search engines in 2017?