I would like to say that I know a whole lot about the things you mentioned but tbh I don't - I do understand blogging though since I refer to myself as a blogger -

I don't know about old school vs new - I haven't been writing long - I just do...

It's not just Google - writing on platforms involves surfing frequent algo changes - I can't count the number of changes I've seen and I've been writing only 3 years!