AI Is Running My SEO Blog. Here’s the Growth So Far

🌈 Abstract

The article discusses the author's experience of using AI to generate content for their SEO blog, Prompt Advance, which focuses on providing ChatGPT prompts. The author shares the challenges they faced and the solutions they implemented to overcome them, including:

1. AI's inability to generate truly novel content
2. Concerns about AI-generated content being easily detected
3. Ensuring the content meets the author's quality standards

🙋 Q&A

[01] Overcoming AI's Inability to Generate Novel Content

1. How did the author solve the problem of AI's inability to generate novel content?

• The author accepted that they would need to provide input and guidance to the AI to ensure the content is of high quality.
• For each blog post, the author conducted research, gathered findings, and provided their own perspective to the AI, which then generated the content based on this input.

2. What is the key part of the content creation process that the author still does manually?

• The author manually performs the research, gathers findings, and provides their own perspective to the AI, as this is the part that the AI cannot do on its own.

[02] Addressing Concerns About AI-Generated Content

1. What was the author's initial concern about AI-generated content being detected?

• The author was initially worried that AI-generated content would be easily detected and that this would be a problem, as they had heard about tools that could check if text was AI-generated.

2. How did the author overcome this concern?

• The author found that Google does not actually care about how the content is produced, as long as it is high-quality and provides value to the audience. Google's focus is on the quality of the content, not the method of production.

[03] Ensuring Content Quality

1. How did the author ensure that the AI-generated content met their quality standards?

• The author experimented with various prompting techniques and learned about AI agents, which are AI systems that are specifically prompted to handle different tasks.
• The author created agents for tasks like generating meta descriptions, ensuring the content is well-structured and easy to read, and aligning with the author's desired presentation.
• By using this workflow, the author was able to get blog posts that met their quality standards.

[04] Automating the Content Creation Process

1. How did the author automate the content creation process?

• The author did not go into the details of the automation process, as it was quite technical. However, the author mentioned that the entire process now takes them around 15 minutes to publish a new article.

[05] Addressing Concerns About Google Banning the Site

1. What was the author's approach to addressing concerns about Google potentially banning their site?

• The author decided to ignore the concern and continue providing valuable content, trusting that Google will keep its promise of focusing on the quality of the content rather than how it is produced.
• The author's strategy is to ensure they do thorough research and provide a fresh perspective with each new blog post, rather than worrying about potential penalties from Google.

[06] Current Results and Future Goals

1. What are the current results the author has achieved with their AI-powered blog?

• The author's site is on its way to 50,000 visitors, with 10,000 monthly clicks and steady growth every week.
• The site is ranking at the top of search results for multiple keywords.

2. What are the author's future goals for the site?

• The author's immediate goal is to analyze how the content is performing and think of new topics to expand into.
• The author's long-term goal is to reach 100,000 monthly visitors, which they believe is achievable with the amount of blog posts they have already published.