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March 29, 2024

How AI can help you write better blog posts

It’s not easy to write a blog post that engages your loyal readers while driving new traffic to your website. However, with the limitless power of artificial intelligence (AI), you can easily elevate your writing and find new, creative ways to improve content on your website. Learn different ways you can use AI to write blog posts so you can publish great work and improve your website’s performance.

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Ideate content

The first step in writing better blog posts is to come up with ideas that people are interested in. You might be a whiz at coming up with new ideas, but you can use AI tools if you’re ever baffled. Generative AI can help you brainstorm new content ideas by researching trending topics and popular keywords. You can give your preferred AI tool a general topic to explore and describe your target audience so it generates more specific topics you should write. This process won’t only help you attract interested readers, but it’ll also help you start strong in your blog creation process.

Proofread your writing

Catch grammatical errors and improve your blog post’s flow using AI. After you write your blog post, you can feed it to the AI tool and receive line-by-line feedback and corrections. Your preferred AI tool might also let you type directly into its field so that it can give you real-time suggestions for grammar corrections, sentence structure improvements, and word choice enhancements. Use AI to polish your blog post so it better resonates with your target audience.

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Implement relevant keywords

There are a lot of great blog posts on the web, but they can be hard for readers to find when they’re searching. Use AI to help you drive more traffic to your blog posts by getting search engine optimization (SEO) recommendations. Your AI tool can help you find more relevant and higher-searched keywords that your target audience might be searching for, recommend meta data so search engines know what your blog post is about, and help you come up with stronger headings to make your blog post more digestible. By using AI for your blog posts, you’re elevating its creative and technical aspects at the same time.

Creating visuals

In addition to what you write for your blog post, you’ll want to pair it with visually appealing content like photos, infographics, and videos. Adding visuals can help with your blog post’s engagement and visibility on search engines. However, if you’re not excellent at creating your own visuals and don’t have access to digital libraries, AI can help make your blog posts pop. Whether you want your AI tool to create custom photos, resize free-use ones you found, or help you design infographics, you can put more of your focus on the writing while you allow AI to handle the visual content that goes along with it.

Writing a rough draft

Sometimes you don’t have the time to write several blog posts for your website. AI can help you with that too. Use AI tools to help you create outlines, rough drafts, and summaries of any research you incorporate in your blog posts. After AI helps you create the first draft of your blog post, you can focus on making it more tailored toward your target audience. You can also give your AI tool feedback so it can edit and refine the blog post to your liking.

Using AI to write blog posts creates tons of possibilities for your writing and your website. Generative AI tools can elevate your content and help you streamline your publication process. AI can also help you plan out your blog posts, improve their visibility on search engines, and find other ways to diversify your content. Find more ways to use AI to strengthen your writing.

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