This is my process for starting an A.I blogging website
🔗Useful Links
💻 A2 Hosting for Domain Name and Web Hosting
🔎 Keywordchef for Keyword Research
📲 Newor Media for advertisements on your website (free to setup, you make money here)
🔗 Affiliate Marketing Course by Spencer Mecham
(some links above may be affiliate links and I may earn a commission. I only recommend tools/services that I use in my business and show free tools when available.)
Step 1 Choose your Niche
The first thing you will do in this journey to start blogging with A.I is to choose a niche. A niche is a topic that you will write about.
You should choose one topic or subtopic because Search Engines like Google prefer topic experts over people who just blog randomly about everything.
When choosing a niche you should think about two things:
- If you are passionate about the topic
- If the topic is trending upwards
You should be passionate about the topic because if you are interested in the topic, you will be able to have the motivation, inspiration, and curiosity that are needed to succeed in blogging.
If you have expertise in a certain area, then that is brilliant.
If you work for a mining company, then you could use the knowledge from your day job to help you with your blog by writing about how mining affects the environment.
You should also check if the topic that you are going to write about is growing in popularity. You can do this by checking the past 5 years in Google Trends and also compare ideas.
For paid software to help you find your niche, check out nichefinder.io.
Step 2 Website Setup + WordPress
For the easiest way to set up a domain name and host a website, I recommend A2 hosting.
I use A2 because they make it easy to buy the domain name, and they install WordPress for you.
I also chose A2 from all of the other Hosting companies because they have some of the fastest servers, the best uptimes(which means your website is never down), and excellent customer support.
They often have sales on hosting so check out their current pricing here(The cheapest package(Shared Hosting) is usually enough for you right now).
Let’s walk step-by-step buying your hosting and domain.
First, go to A2 Hosting and buy the cheapest hosting:
Then you can choose the startup plan if you want to start one website or the drive package. I have the drive package as I run multiple websites.
You can now register the domain name of your website. Choose something that is short and easy to type. Try to use a dot com address but don’t worry, you can also use others like .net or .org.
That’s it, You just need to continue to pay. There is now an option to auto-install WordPress under additional options. You should choose WordPress. The other options should be left on default as you don’t really need them. Also continue through the Domains Configuration section and checkout.
You have your new Website and it will be ready in no time to create content!
Congratulations!!!!
Design your Blog
You should not spend a lot of time designing your blog.
Choose a simple free theme like Astra and install it and set up a blog page. For a premium theme that is set up for Bloggers, check out the Popcorn theme.
For a website, you need to first build a Header Section
You can change the logo, headline and menu to your liking. In order to change the pages that appear on your header you need to click on “primary menu” and “configure menu” to add the pages that you want.
You will also need a logo which you can design on Canva. It is super simple, just type in logo and search for one that you like and change it a little bit.
Once you have the blog up and running, it is time to start researching topics to write about.
Step 3 Keyword Research
Keyword Research is probably the most important part of Blogging in my opinion. You NEED to find the right topics otherwise you will just waste your time and money.
There are many many ways to do keyword research but my 2 favorites are:
Google autosuggest
To use Google Autosuggest for keyword research you simply type in your main keyword and a modifier like “for” or “with” or something that suits that term.
You then go into each suggestion and try to find something that hasn’t been covered.
Start a Google Sheet and make a list of at least 20 topics.
KeywordChef
A more suitable approach for A.I blogging is to use a tool as we will be writing at scale.
With Keyword Chef we can sort keywords in terms of weak websites at the top of Google. This is a great way to sort as you can make a better article and overtake them.
Step 4 Create Content
The next step is creating the content and we are going to use an A.I writer to help us create content at a much faster pace than other bloggers.
You can use Chat GPT and copy/paste the output into WordPress.
Here are my prompts to help you:
- Can you write me an outline for a blog post titled “…. “
- Can you now use the outline above and write a blog post. Use a friendly, engaging, helpful, and professional tone
A better faster approach is to use the WordPress plugin A. I engine.
Another option if you can afford it is KoalaWriter. The great thing about Koala is that you can create a fully formatted article in one click.
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Editing/Improving your content
You will want to edit and improve the content that A.I writers produce.
You should follow these steps:
- Check if you can improve the content with any personal experience.
- Add images with Canva.
- Look out for boring or repeated sentences and make them more engaging with Quillbot.
- Grammar and Spell check with Grammarly
Publishing your content
You should publish as much content on your blog as you can and that should be your main focus.
That being said, you should also try to share your content on other platforms to get more people to your website.
Think about your niche and choose a relevant social media.
Pinterest for visual niches…
Youtube for tutorials….
Twitter for business….
Facebook and Instagram for Lifestyle.
Remember, you can also use Jasper A.I to create content for social media.
Step 5 Monetizing your A.I blogging website
There are three main ways that you can make money from a blog:
- Advertisements
- Affiliate Marketing
- Digital Products
Advertisements are a great way to make money on your website. I have used Ezoic for many years and I have earned quite a lot of money from showing advertisements on my websites.
Affiliate Marketing is when you promote other people’s products and you can earn commissions from every sale.
Digital products are when you create your own books or video courses. I currently use Payhip as my store to sell my books and courses.
Conclusion
That is it for this tutorial. A.I content does rank on Google but I always also write some content myself and edit the content to make it better. If the content is good, then google will show it to people.