I'm fairly new to SEO and learning by actually working on a website. About two months ago, I took over an existing multi-niche blog covering tech, AI, business, and digital marketing.

The site was hit pretty hard around the August spam update, and impressions dropped significantly. I've been trying to recover it, but honestly, I feel stuck.

Here's what I've done so far:

- Started improving thin AI-generated content.

- Consolidated similar articles and properly redirected old URLs.

- Fixed technical SEO issues and improved internal linking.

- Published around 12–15 new plus refreshed articles monthly based on GSC data.

- Built three free tools to diversify traffic beyond informational blog posts.

- Tried Pinterest, but haven't seen much success.

- Haven't actively built backlinks yet because I'm unsure how to approach it without a budget.

Current stats:

- DR: 21 | DA: 23

- 409 published posts

- Around 25K impressions and 64 clicks over the last three months, with most impressions coming before…