I know you're going to hate this answer, but the answer is yes and no.
Let’s get the “no” answer out of the way quickly.
If you create content that you think will be hot, or you believe your target customers will be interested in, you're basically rolling the dice—that’s all you're doing.
You're taking a wild shot in the dark and hoping that somehow, someway, somebody shows up.
That is not a winning strategy.
“Built it, and they will come” is a sure path to early bankruptcy when it comes to SEO.
Don’t do it.
The better approach—and this is what I use—is to reverse-engineer your competitors.
You have to make sure that the articles that you have beat the competition hands down.
How would you do this?
Well, do an audit on your competitors.
Get a full list of the keywords their content is pulling up.
Next, do a difficulty analysis on their keywords.
Next, find questions related to those low-difficulty keywords.
This is how you create a website that may have relatively few pieces of content can gain a tremendous amount of domain authority in a short period of time.
I've seen websites that have as little as 30 posts dominate rankings!
We’re talking about at least 300-800 keywords showing up.
If you do this right, you will be able to rank faster and get targeted traffic using informative-type keywords.
You can then interlink from those pages to more competitive or higher commercial intent content—these are the pieces of content you make your money from.
Since your stuff is now ranking using these often neglected keywords, this is when the VOLUME OF YOUR CONTENT will start to count.
You can rank quickly and get decent traffic with relatively few pieces of content, but they have to be the right pieces of content.
Also, to offset the fact that you might not optimize them correctly, try to be on the safe side and publish at least 100 pieces of long form content
You have to be strategic.
Now, please note that my advice above doesn’t involve backlinks; the strategy above is completely free of backlinks.
It is 100% white hat, but you have to be very strategic about how you create your content.