We used the tools in this article to grow the WGMI Media blog (what you’re reading right now) from 300 monthly visits to 300k monthly visits in 5 months.
So, you decided to start a blog.
I don’t blame you. The success stories in blogging are endless. It makes it easy to see the huge potential of starting a blogging business.
Ryan Robinson makes $420k a year with his blog about starting a business. Alborz Fallah makes $125k a month with his blog about cars. Tim Sykes makes $1 million a month with his blog about trading.
But blogging is not a get-rich-quick scheme. It takes a long time to start seeing a return, and only those who stick with it for years enjoy the massive rewards.
Is there any way to speed up my success in blogging?
There is a reason it takes a long time for a blog to become successful. You need volume.
Only when you have a huge volume of articles will Google consider you an authoritative source. Only when Google considers you an authoritative source will it start pushing your articles higher up its rankings. Only when you are high up Google’s rankings will people find your website.
While there is no secret hack to make your blog an overnight success, there are AI tools you can use to write more articles, quicker.
In this article, I’ll share 5 AI tools that I personally use to grow the WGMI Media blog to hundreds of thousands of visits every month.
AI Tool 1: ChatGPT (Superhuman productivity)
With ChatGPT, writing a blog has never been easier. Although articles need to be high quality, blogging is a numbers game. The secret sauce is using ChatGPT to help us create a high volume of high-quality articles.
One person can leverage the power of ChatGPT to pump out articles at a level of productivity that used to require a full team.
Pro tip: You are the author of the article, not ChatGPT. Use ChatGPT strategically to help you save time (e.g. by writing introductions, headlines, and helping with SEO). You need to feed it context, data and, information. If you rely solely on ChatGPT, your articles will be too generic to enjoy any success.
How can I use ChatGPT for my blog?
One incredible way you can use ChatGPT is to help you brainstorm content ideas.
Creative block, time constraints, and market saturation can make it extremely difficult to think of fresh topics to write about. Fortunately, with a little help from ChatGPT, we can brainstorm hundreds of article ideas in minutes. Here’s how:
Let ChatGPT take inspiration from your competitors by showing it the best-performing articles in your niche. Then, ask ChatGPT to brainstorm ideas for you.
Prompt: I write a blog about [NICHE].
Here are five examples of blogs from my competitors that are performing well:
- [BLOG TITLE 1]
- [BLOG TITLE 2]
- [BLOG TITLE 3]
- [BLOG TITLE 4]
- [BLOG TITLE 5]
Please brainstorm 10 article ideas for my blog.
For more ChatGPT prompts that will help you brainstorm content ideas, write irresistible headlines, write captivating introductions, create list content, and optimize your blog’s SEO, make sure you read this article.
AI Tool 2: 10web (Build a website in minutes)
While you don’t necessarily need your own website for a blog, all the big players have one.
With AI tools like 10web, building a website for your blog couldn’t be easier.
All you have to do is provide a bit of information about your business, and voila: a sleek, sexy website that your readers will love browsing. All in a matter of minutes.
AI Tool 3: Midjourney (Create stunning thumbnails)
Great blogs need great thumbnails. You used to need expensive designers to make world-class thumbnails. Now, you just need an AI tool: Midjourney.
Midjourney is a generative text-to-image tool that uses AI to create beautiful images based on the text prompts that you provide. This powerful tool is improving exponentially, and it is really good at making images you can use in your thumbnails.
Here are 4 thumbnails from our website that we made using a combination of Midjourney and Canva (to add text).
Create a Profitable Blog Using ChatGPT
How to Go Viral Using ChatGPT
Got to Write An eBook With ChatGPT (Best Prompt)
7 No Code Tools To Automate Your Business
I mean, look at them. They’re just so damn clickable.
AI Tool 4: Glasp (Level up your research)
The better you are at research, the better your articles are going to be. It’s really as simple as that.
Researching online can be messy. After all, you’ll be pulling information from hundreds of different sources: YouTube videos, articles, newsletters, social media. It can be tough.
Only a fool would research without using the tools that have been designed to make it easier. Let me introduce you to my favorite one: Glasp.
This tool turns the internet into your notebook. You can highlight any article and add notes directly on the website. All those notes will be accessible in one place, ready for you to pull the killer facts, stats and opinions directly into your article.
Bonus tip: Glasp even has a Chrome extension that transcribes and summarizes YouTube videos. You can use this tool to quickly turn a popular YouTube video into an article.
AI Tool 5: Hoppy Copy (Write emails, 10x faster)
To monetize your blog, you’ll need to speak to a lot of sponsors. Sponsors will pay for sponsored posts, and they will give you affiliate links to include on your website.
To begin with, you’ll probably need to reach out to sponsors to ask if they want to pay for a sponsored post.
How will you be reaching out to these sponsors? By email.
Managing all these emails takes a lot of time… time which you could use to write more articles. You need to find a way to manage your emails in as little time as possible. I have a solution for you.
HoppyCopy can save you hundreds of hours writing high-quality emails. Here are some of its best features:
- 50+ email AI templates using proven formulas to generate email copy
- Generate unique ideas, witty headlines and eye-catching subject lines in seconds
- Increase your open rates with spam checks
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