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December 29, 2025

# Does Blog Content Ideas Still Matter in 2026?

Short answer: yes, but not for the reason it used to.

The old thinking was: Only generating topics from a keyword tool's volume numbers, missing lower-volume but highly relevant questions your specific audience actually asks. That framing is dated — search engines have gotten much better at figuring things out without hand-holding. But 'search engines can cope without it' isn't the same as 'it doesn't matter.'

What actually changed is who benefits. Mine your own search bar, support tickets, and sales call notes for real recurring questions — these convert into content far more reliably than generic keyword tool suggestions. That's less about appeasing an algorithm and more about not wasting the crawl/attention you already have.

The practical test isn't whether it's trendy — it's whether skipping it creates work for someone else later (a crawler, a future you, a user). By that test, blog content ideas still earns its place.

Same question, different tool: does programmatic SEO still matter?

Content / Blog Topic Generator either way — checking takes longer to read about than to do.

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