You are a blogger and you have been spending hours researching each topic that you are about to write. You make sure that you use the search engines to pick the right topic and then you find the appropriate keywords for the content (you are writing with the aim of making your blog rank, after all) and then you spend several more hours reading up on the topic, before you finally get down to the actual writing part.
You then find out that another blogger friend is using AI to write blog posts and they are done with their blog in a fraction of the time.
Feeling torn between using AI as well, but then wanting to stay honest to your trade – this is a situation that several bloggers are going through these days!
What exactly is blogging with AI?
AI stands for Artificial Intelligence – computer systems are programmed to simulate human intelligence and reduce the need for actual human effort.
So, if one were to talk exclusively about blog writing with AI, it would refer to software that has been designed to think and create content that would mimic the manner of writing of humans. If a human writer would need close to an hour to create a blog, AI bots would probably do it in a matter of seconds!
But why is there such a lot of hue and cry about using AI to write blog posts?
- There are ethical considerations related directly to writing blog posts using AI and the carbon emissions that are being generated is just one of them. Obviously, when heavy tech is involved, there is bound to be higher power consumption that is bound to increase the carbon footprint.
- Then there are those who consider this downright plagiarism – after all, you are not the one creating the content; someone (or something) else has ‘written’ it and you are passing it as your own!
- There is also the belief that all that AI really does is scour the internet, take information from several sites and then polish it up for you. There is no original thought involved.
And then there is the fact that most AI writing software will add a disclaimer that there is responsibility for the accuracy of the text that has been generated.
So, should you use blogging AI tools for your blog creation?
As long as it is not clear copy paste, there is nothing wrong with actually using AI for your blog creations. AI can actually help you do a lot of your foundation work:
- Generate a long list, or multiple lists, of relevant blog topics
- Create the first draft or a basic structure, which you can use for your blog
- Get ideas for heading and title options for your blogs
- Analyse the tone of your content and switch it based on your requirement
- It can proof read and improve the grammar of your content
- Create FAQs which you can use to add an extra element to your blogs
- In case you need any short posts, which you can use along with your blogs, AI can help you with it
How to write a blog with AI – All that you can do!
If you are a blog writer, you can definitely use AI! And you can generate content that will rank well on the search engines too!
But there are some steps that you need to follow:
- Start with the keywords research – Considering the audience you are writing for; you need to make sure that you pick words that will target them. Take cognizance of the type of questions they are asking and generate appropriate and meaningful answers to those first.
- Come up with blog ideas – Now this is where you can use blogging AI tools, because with a simple prompt, you will be able to find a wide range of options and most of these will match what you have given as the input.
- Get the outline ready – Even the best bloggers in the world will first start with the creation of the outline; they will chalk out what all they want to cover in the post and how they will go about it. This is yet again a place where you can take help from AI.
- Writing the post – Now, this is where it gets tricky; because you are faced with 2 options. You can either ask AI to write the entire text for you and you should have a decent article or you can write the rest of the portions on your own, giving it the all important ‘human touch’. If you are using Mureed, then you can choose to go with the first method and then use the Content Improver Bot to improve and enhance the flow of your content.
- Refine, revise, repeat – If you thought your page was ready, you are so wrong! You need to read and re-read the page several times over, because you will have to edit, add and subtract from what has been created.
- You can add images, videos and frequently asked questions to make your blog look better.
- No one wants to read essay like pages, so break it up into paragraphs and bullet points.
- Add links to relevant sites or even your other blog posts to generate interest and traffic.
- And do not forget your meta data – the meta title and meta description are always important for ranking.
As per updates, if you want your blogs to rank, you need to create a certain amount of trustworthiness with your content – people should feel that your blogs provide information that is relevant, interesting and most importantly, unique.
If you want to try blogging with AI, we suggest that you try out Mureed, where you can utilise a variety of bots to create the most premium content or at the least the outline for it all!