First Article: Testing a Blog in Google 2026
Hi, my name is Alex.
This is the first article on my website, and its goal is to test how Google’s algorithms currently work for blog-type sites.
Over the past few years, search results have changed significantly, especially with the rise of AI. In short, here’s what’s happening:
AI-generated answers are taking traffic even from top-ranking sites
Google is actively updating its algorithms to fight spam
Content quality requirements (E-E-A-T) have become stricter
Classic SEO texts and over-optimization are becoming less effective
Programmatic SEO has emerged — mass generation of pages targeting search queries
If you look at discussions on Reddit, you can often see complaints:
many sites have lost traffic drastically or entire sections have stopped ranking.
At the same time, based on my observations, there’s an interesting point:
normal blogs created by real people — where the author writes naturally, without spam or over-optimization — can still grow and get traffic.
Why I’m Doing This Blog
The main goal is to test whether blogging as a format is still viable in 2026:
Will Google treat such a site normally?
Is it possible to get traffic with regular publishing?
Which approaches actually work, and which no longer do?
What This Blog Will Cover
I plan to write about:
development (frontend / backend)
website breakdowns and analysis
testing new tools and features
practical guides and tutorials
No fluff or rewriting existing content — only personal experience and real observations.
Experiment Format
This article will be updated примерно once a month.
Here I will track:
traffic changes
how pages behave in search
what worked and what didn’t
It will also serve as a table of contents (TOC) — with links to articles by month or quarter.
Conclusion
There’s a lot of noise around SEO right now: AI, updates, traffic drops.
But the key question remains — is blogging dead, or have the rules just changed?
This site is an attempt to answer that question in practice.