content creation https://gtmlabs.com Thu, 15 Oct 2026 04:12:17 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.8.11 https://gtmlabs.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/03/cropped-GTMLAB_FB180x180-32x32.png content creation https://gtmlabs.com 32 32 The AI Blog Writing Prompt Stack: A Better Way to Build High-Quality Content https://gtmlabs.com/the-ai-blog-writing-prompt-stack-a-better-way-to-build-high-quality-content/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=the-ai-blog-writing-prompt-stack-a-better-way-to-build-high-quality-content https://gtmlabs.com/the-ai-blog-writing-prompt-stack-a-better-way-to-build-high-quality-content/#respond Thu, 08 Oct 2026 07:53:13 +0000 https://gtmlabs.com/?p=2205 AI has made blog writing remarkably easy.

Open ChatGPT, Claude, Gemini or another generative AI tool. Type something like:

Write a 2,000-word SEO-optimised blog post about improving B2B lead generation.”

A few moments later, you have an article. The problem is that thousands of other businesses are doing the same thing. They are crafting the perfect single prompt to create that article. It is like asking a person to take on the role of

An investigative researcher

A content strategist

A creative writer

An SEO specialist

A brand guardian

A fact-checker

An editorial auditor

The reality is, each role has different priorities.

A researcher would prioritise evidence.

A writer prioritises clarity and engagement.

An SEO specialist prioritises discoverability.

An auditor prioritises identifying weaknesses.

These priorities can conflict.

Instead of asking one AI prompt to research, strategise, write, fact-check, optimise, and edit an article, businesses are better off dividing those responsibilities across a structured AI blog prompt stack. Think of it less as having one exceptionally talented AI writer and more as building a small virtual editorial operation.

Research has its job.

Strategy has its job.

Writing has its job.

Brand governance has its job.

Auditing has its job.

The objective is better, more consistent, and more repeatable content production. For example, research and writing are fundamentally different activities.

Research would ask:

“What is actually true?”

Writing would ask:

“How can we communicate what we know effectively?”

When both happen simultaneously, the model can begin constructing an argument before the evidence has been adequately examined. This creates a risk of confirmation bias within the workflow.

When everything occurs within a single generation process, the model may prioritise producing a coherent article over thoroughly addressing every competing requirement.

Another example would be a proposed headline like:

“Why AI Content Is Destroying SEO Performance.”

An all-in-one prompt may begin assembling arguments supporting that premise.

A dedicated research prompt should first establish whether the premise is supported, exaggerated or incorrect. It might discover that the more defensible argument concerns low-value content rather than AI-generated content itself.

The headline may then need to change.

What Is an AI Blog Writing Prompt Stack?

An AI blog prompt stack is a structured collection of specialised prompts used at different stages of content production.

Instead of:

Topic → AI writing prompt → Blog post

the process becomes something closer to:

Topic → Research → Positioning → Headline → Architecture → Writing → Verification → Brand Review → Audit → Optimisation → Publication → Distribution

Each prompt has a defined responsibility and produces an output that can become the input for the next stage.

This distinction matters.

A research prompt should be optimised to find and evaluate information.

A headline prompt should be optimised to attract the right reader without distorting the article.

A writing prompt should turn the approved research and positioning into clear communication.

A brand voice prompt should protect consistency.

An audit prompt should look for weaknesses rather than defend what has already been written.

The underlying principle is simple:

Asking one prompt to do the work of an entire content team is ineffective, just as asking one person to do the work of a team is ineffective.

The Problem With the “Write Me a Blog Post” Approach

The single-prompt approach is attractive because it is efficient.

It can also produce perfectly acceptable content.

But consider what you are implicitly asking AI to accomplish in one instruction.

It may need to determine:

who the article is really for
what that reader wants to understand
what information is accurate
which sources are credible
what competitors have already written
what the brand can say that adds something useful
which search queries matter
how the argument should be structured
what examples should be included
how the brand should sound
what claims require qualification
where a CTA belongs
whether the finished article is actually good enough to publish

These aren’t variations of the same task. They are different jobs. And some of those jobs are naturally in tension.

The writer wants to produce persuasive, flowing prose.

The fact-checker should interrupt that flow when a claim cannot be supported.

The SEO specialist wants discoverability.

The editor may remove keywords when they make a sentence unnatural.

The commercial strategist wants the article to support the business.

The reader doesn’t want to feel as though they have spent ten minutes reading an advertisement.

Trying to optimise all of these simultaneously with one enormous prompt can create complexity without necessarily creating control.

AI Adoption Is Growing Faster Than AI Workflow Maturity

This isn’t merely a theoretical problem.

AI is already embedded deeply in marketing activity. HubSpot’s research identifies content creation, research, brainstorming, and data analysis among key use cases for marketing AI.

Yet using AI frequently is not the same as having a mature AI operating model.

Content Marketing Institute’s B2B research found that 54% of teams were using AI on an ad-hoc basis, while only 19% reported having AI integrated into daily processes and workflows. The same research found that only 17% rated AI-generated content as excellent or very good.

That gap is revealing.

Many organisations have acquired AI capability at the individual level, but have yet to build it at the process level.

Someone knows how to use ChatGPT.

Someone else has created a collection of prompts.

Another person uses AI for SEO.

But the activities may not connect into a defined production process.

The next step in AI content maturity is less about teaching people another clever prompting technique and more about turning fragmented AI usage into a repeatable workflow.

From One Prompt to a Prompt Stack

A practical AI blog production system does not need 20 prompts running every time an article is created. That would replace one problem with another. Instead, think in terms of specialist modules.

1. Topic Discovery Prompt

Before researching an article, decide whether it deserves to exist.

A topic discovery prompt can examine customer questions, commercial priorities, search behaviour, sales objections, industry developments and existing content gaps.

Its purpose isn’t to write.

Its purpose is to answer:

What is worth writing about?

This becomes particularly important as AI reduces the cost of content production. When producing another article is easy, topic selection becomes more—not less—important.

2. Research Intelligence Prompt

Once a topic has been selected, research should be conducted separately from writing. A strong research prompt can investigate:

the topic and terminology
reader problems and search intent
credible evidence
statistics and primary sources
competing perspectives
existing search results
content gaps
relevant entities
common misconceptions
questions readers are asking
possible implications and second-order effects

The output should ideally be a structured  research brief, not an article.

That distinction reduces the temptation for the AI to move prematurely from discovering information to constructing a persuasive narrative.

3. Angle and Positioning Prompt

This may be one of the most valuable—and overlooked—parts of the stack. Ask:

“What are we going to say that adds something useful?”

AI can synthesise widely available information extremely well. If five companies research the same sources and ask similar models to summarise them, they may arrive at remarkably similar articles.

The positioning stage forces another question:

What can our experience, evidence, customer knowledge, or perspective add?

This does not mean manufacturing controversy or pretending every article contains a revolutionary idea.

Sometimes information gain comes from a new insight.

Sometimes it comes from connecting ideas that are usually considered separately.

Sometimes it is a clearer explanation.

Occasionally it is applying an established idea to a specific context.

Originality does not require saying something nobody has ever said. It requires giving the reader a reason to read your version.

4. Headline Prompt

Once the argument is clear, headline development becomes easier.

Instead of asking AI to produce “20 catchy headlines”, the headline prompt can work from:

the reader’s problem
search intent
article thesis
strongest insight
emotional tension
brand positioning
primary keyword

The headline then reflects the article’s substance rather than determining it retrospectively.

5. Article Architecture Prompt

Research provides material. Architecture determines what is included in the final version. The architecture prompt should determine the logical reader journey:

What does the reader need to understand first?

What follows from that?

Where should evidence appear?

Where does the central insight emerge?

What can be removed?

This is especially valuable for long-form content because AI tends to confuse completeness with quality.

A 3,000-word article doesn’t become more authoritative simply because it contains more sections.

6. Blog Writer Prompt

Only now do we reach the prompt that most organisations start with.

The writer receives an approved package containing the topic, audience, research, thesis, positioning and article architecture.

Its job is no longer:

“Figure everything out and write something.”

It becomes:

“Turn these decisions into an excellent article.”

That is a fundamentally different assignment.

The writer can focus on explanation, pacing, transitions, examples, readability, and engagement because upstream prompts have already addressed many strategic questions.

7. Brand Voice Prompt

AI can imitate tone surprisingly well.

Consistency is harder.

Brand voice isn’t simply telling an AI:

“Make it professional but friendly.”

A useful brand voice specification establishes how the organisation communicates repeatedly.

It might define:

desired tone
level of technical sophistication
vocabulary preferences
sentence and paragraph tendencies
how assertive claims should be
how humour is used
acceptable provocation
preferred terminology
prohibited phrases
clichés to avoid
how CTAs should sound
examples of on-brand and off-brand writing

This matters because a business publishing frequently with AI could otherwise sound like a different organisation from article to article.

Brand voice therefore isn’t merely cosmetic. It is part of content governance.

8. Fact-Checking and Source Verification Prompt

Generative AI can produce fluent statements that sound authoritative without being sufficiently supported.

Google explicitly recommends manually fact-checking and reviewing AI-generated content for accuracy and trustworthiness before publication.

A verification prompt should therefore challenge consequential claims. It can ask:

What claims require evidence?

Does the cited source actually support the claim?

Has correlation been presented as causation?

Is a statistic current?

Has a finding been generalised beyond its original context?

Is something presented as fact actually interpretation?

AI can assist with this process. Human accountability should remain.

9. Red-Team Prompt

The fact-checker asks:

“Is this accurate?”

The red team asks:

“Where is this argument weak?”

Those are different questions.

A red-team prompt can deliberately challenge the draft:

What assumptions are being made?
What credible counterarguments exist?
Where is the reasoning too convenient?
Which sections overclaim?
What has been ignored?
What would a sceptical expert challenge?
Where does the article confuse opinion with evidence?
Is the conclusion stronger than the research justifies?

This can make AI particularly useful.

Instead of asking AI only to generate more content, you ask it to attack the content it has helped create.

10. Editorial Audit Prompt

Before publication, the article should pass a quality gate.

An audit prompt could score the article against defined criteria such as:

DimensionAudit Question
Reader intentDoes it answer the question the reader came with?
ResearchAre important claims adequately supported?
Information gainDoes it add something beyond generic summaries?
PositioningIs there a clear and defensible point of view?
Brand voiceDoes it consistently sound like the organisation?
StructureDoes every section earn its place?
Practical valueCan the reader do or understand something better?
SearchIs the subject naturally discoverable?
AI discoveryAre important concepts and answers clearly expressed?
ConversionDoes the next step follow naturally?
HumanityDoes this read like thoughtful editorial work rather than formulaic AI output?

The important point isn’t the score itself.

The value comes from forcing the content through an independent challenge before publication.

A useful audit should be able to conclude:

Publish.

Publish after minor revisions.

Material revision required.

Or:

Do not publish yet.

That is a very different relationship with AI from simply accepting whatever appears after the first prompt.

Search and AI Discovery Raise the Quality Bar

There is another reason this matters.

AI has made commodity content much cheaper to produce.

Search systems are also becoming better at understanding it. Google’s current guidance for generative AI search emphasises useful, unique, non-commodity content and explicitly recommends bringing unique viewpoints and first-hand expertise rather than simply recycling what is already online or what a generative AI model could readily produce.

Google also says generative AI can be useful for researching topics and structuring original content, while warning that generating many pages without adding user value can violate its scaled-content-abuse policies.

There is an important commercial implication here:

AI makes content easier to produce at precisely the moment ordinary content becomes less strategically valuable.

Producing more words is therefore unlikely to be the sustainable competitive advantage.

Producing better-informed, more distinctive and more useful content efficiently might be.

The Prompt Stack Is Really a Workflow

This is where the idea becomes more interesting. The prompt stack isn’t primarily about prompts. It is about handoffs.

Research produces a structured research brief. That brief becomes an input to positioning. The approved positioning and research become inputs to architecture. Architecture becomes an input to writing. The completed draft becomes an input to verification and auditing. The approved article becomes an input to SEO optimisation, LinkedIn content, email, social posts and other distribution. The process begins to resemble a content supply chain:

Input → Transformation → Quality control → Handoff → Transformation → Quality control → Output

And once the handoffs are defined, parts of the workflow can be automated.

Recent Content Marketing Institute coverage of agentic content workflows makes a similar distinction: separate AI agents can handle focused responsibilities and pass work between them through defined triggers and handoffs rather than requiring a person to restart each task manually. That is the transition from prompt engineering toward workflow engineering.

Not Every Article Needs the Full Stack

There is an obvious danger here.

A business could turn a simple 700-word article into a 17-stage bureaucratic exercise.

That isn’t maturity. It’s overhead.

The stack should be modular. A short explanatory article might need:

Research → Write → Verify → Edit

A major thought-leadership article might require:

Research → Positioning → Headline → Architecture → Write → Brand → Verify → Red Team → Audit → Optimise

A cornerstone or high-risk article may justify even deeper research and governance.

The principle should be:

Increase process depth in proportion to content importance, complexity and risk.

Repeatability should reduce unnecessary work, not institutionalise it.

From Prompt Maturity to Content Operations Maturity

Businesses can think about their AI content capability as a progression.

LevelAI Content MaturityTypical Behaviour
1. ManualHuman-ledResearch, writing and editing are largely manual
2. AI-AssistedTool-ledIndividuals occasionally use AI for ideas, outlines or rewriting
3. Prompt-BasedRepeatable instructionsTeams begin maintaining reusable master prompts
4. Workflow-BasedDefined processSpecialist prompts handle different production stages
5. GovernedQuality-controlledBrand voice, verification, audit and human approvals are formalised
6. OrchestratedConnected systemWorkflows, automation, data, analytics and feedback loops connect

Most businesses don’t need to reach Level 6 immediately. But recognising the maturity path changes the question. Instead of:

“Which AI tool should we buy?”

the organisation begins asking:

“What content capability are we trying to build?”

That is a much better technology question.

What Should AI Do—and What Should Humans Still Own?

A sophisticated AI content system doesn’t require removing people from content production. It requires becoming clearer about where human judgement creates the most value.

AI is increasingly capable of helping with:

research discovery, summarisation, clustering, structural analysis, drafting, editing, repurposing, pattern detection and quality checks.

Humans should remain accountable for decisions such as:

Strategic intent:  Why should this article exist?

Experience:  What have we learned that isn’t available from summarising the internet?

Positioning:  What does our organisation actually believe?

Judgement:  Is this conclusion proportionate to the evidence?

Context:  Does this make sense for our customers and market?

Accountability:  Are we willing to put our organisation’s name behind this?

The goal isn’t human versus AI. It is allocating work intelligently between them.

The Bigger Opportunity: From AI Content to Digital Acquisition Infrastructure

For SMEs, blogging rarely exists in isolation.

An article might attract a search visitor.

The visitor arrives on the website.

They read another article.

They download a resource.

Their consent and contact information enter a CRM.

Marketing automation initiates nurture.

Behaviour provides intent signals.

A lead becomes marketing-qualified.

Sales receives the handoff.

Revenue attribution eventually connects the opportunity back to the acquisition journey.

Content is therefore not simply a publishing activity.

It can be one component of a wider Digital Acquisition Infrastructure.

From that perspective, the AI prompt stack becomes part of something larger:

Content strategy → AI production workflow → Website/CMS → Search & AI discovery → Lead capture → CRM → Nurture → Qualification → Sales handoff → Measurement → Learning

This is where AI becomes commercially interesting.

Not because it writes faster. Because it can become part of a connected acquisition operating system.

Don’t Build a Faster Content Factory

AI gives businesses unprecedented production capacity. That doesn’t automatically create better marketing.

If the strategy is weak, AI can produce weak content faster. If research is superficial, it can scale superficiality.

If positioning is generic, it can generate more generic content. If the process lacks governance, automation can simply automate inconsistency.

The opportunity is not to find one magical prompt that does everything, but to build a system in which the right prompt does the right job, gets the right context, and hands off to the right next stage—with humans retaining accountability where judgement matters most.

That is the real value of the AI blog prompt stack.

And it points to a larger shift in how businesses should think about AI:  stop treating it as another tool sitting beside the workflow and start asking how it should become part of the workflow itself.

For SMEs exploring how AI, content, CRM, automation and customer acquisition should work together, GTM Labs approaches these questions from a systems perspective. Rather than adding disconnected tools or automating isolated activities, the starting point is understanding the commercial objective, existing process, technology stack and operational gaps—then determining what infrastructure is actually worth building.

Key Takeaways

A single AI prompt can produce an article, but that doesn’t make it a content-production system.
Specialist prompts allow research, positioning, writing, brand governance, verification and auditing to optimise for different objectives.

The real value of a prompt stack comes from structured handoffs, not the number of prompts.

Brand voice, fact verification and independent auditing provide the governance layer that basic AI-writing workflows often lack.

Not every article needs the complete stack; process depth should reflect importance, complexity and risk.

The maturity path moves from  AI tools → reusable prompts → workflows → governance → orchestration. Human judgement remains essential for strategy, experience, positioning, context and accountability.

For SMEs, an AI content-production system can ultimately become part of a broader Digital Acquisition Infrastructure.

Frequently Asked Questions

What is an AI blog prompt stack?

An AI blog prompt stack is a collection of specialised prompts assigned to different stages of blog production, such as research, positioning, headline development, writing, fact-checking, brand-voice review, auditing and optimisation. The outputs are passed between stages to create a repeatable content-production workflow.

Is one detailed master prompt better than multiple prompts?

It depends on the task. A strong master prompt can be highly effective for straightforward content. Multiple specialist prompts become more useful when research depth, consistency, governance, differentiation or quality control matters. The objective isn’t to maximise the number of prompts but to separate responsibilities where doing so improves the result.

Should businesses automate the entire AI content workflow?

We advocate a hybrid approach. Automation is most useful for repeatable, well-defined processes. Strategic positioning, contextual judgement, important factual decisions and final publication accountability still benefit from human oversight. Automating an immature process can simply scale its weaknesses.

Does AI-generated content hurt SEO?

Using AI is not inherently the issue. Google says generative AI can assist with research and content structure, while its policies focus on content quality, accuracy, relevance and whether scaled content adds genuine user value.

How many prompts should an AI blog workflow have?

There is no ideal number. A straightforward article may require only research, writing, verification and editing. Higher-value or more complex thought leadership may justify separate positioning, brand, red-team, audit and optimisation stages. Use the minimum workflow that reliably delivers the required quality and governance.

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7 risks of using Generative AI for blog writing https://gtmlabs.com/ai-risks/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=ai-risks https://gtmlabs.com/ai-risks/#respond Sun, 23 Feb 2025 17:43:09 +0000 https://gtmlabs.com/?p=1808 Generative artificial intelligence, or AI, has drastically changed the digital landscape in the areas of digital content creation. It is now incredibly simple to produce impressive content such as blog posts, marketing pieces, and even whole books with a few clicks of a button. This gives content creators an unfair advantage in producing content in the digital race to grab attention.

Cutting-edge AI tool writing solutions such as ChatGPT can save time and simplify content creation processes, but they still have some considerable downsides that businesses and content creators need to consider.

While AI can generate text, images, and analytics, they are not a universal solution that automatically delivers flawless results. They are merely tools that operate based on trained data and given instructions.

Risks exist in using AI. In this article, we will explain the AI-generated risks that bloggers face and how to resolve such issues.

1. Misleading Information

Advanced AI is capable of producing impressive work. However, they cannot verify data in real-time, which means that generative AI models can produce misleading information such as incorrect statistics and outdated and unverifiable data.

If these inaccuracies are not dealt with, they could potentially harm a brand’s credibility as well as do some severe damage. This could lead to a publicity crisis, which will not end well for the brand.

To avoid this issue, ensure that AI-generated content is double-checked against credible databases. Consider AI-generated text as rough work that needs proofreading. It is best to avoid using AI for technical and sensitive subjects that need more attention to detail. 

2. Fabricated Data

Generative AI works off monumental datasets. Drawing from databases, their work is largely based on predicting probabilities. Should some relevant data be absent from the training material or just plain wrong, AI has no problem inventing fictitious fillers to resolve the issue, delivering nonsense with confidence. A term is even given to such fabricated data: hallucination.

AI hallucinations are a significant challenge in the field of artificial intelligence, particularly with large language models (LLMs) and generative AI systems. These hallucinations occur when AI models produce outputs that are factually incorrect or nonsensical, yet presented as if they were true. These hallucinations can lead to misinformation, incorrect decision-making, and potential security risks.

Thus, it is dangerous to rely 100% on AI-generated content; human oversight and alterations are required. 

3. Failing to Achieve Originality

AI-driven content creation sources information from uploaded data to generate content, which means the output almost always suffers from originality. This makes the AI content generated lose its spark and engagement, making it bland and repetitive.

While AI can assist in generating content, inputs from an actual person can add depth and insights to the content piece.

Adding real-life examples or citing case studies along with personal narratives can help in creating original content.

4. Brand Voice and Authenticity

Every brand is distinct, and they have a specific way of communicating, whether through their choice of words or tone.

Content generated through the use of AI lacks the essence of such distinction. Such content can appear mechanical, posing challenges to the brand’s identity and failing to cut through the noise.

Brands typically try to reach out to people’s emotions through storytelling or even lighthearted jokes.

5. SEO and Ranking Issues

Google, as with other search engines, emphasizes user-friendly searchable content.

Keywords are the foundation of a search engine optimization (SEO) strategy. They are necessary if you wish for your blog article to be picked up by search engines.

AI has no clue about strategic keywords, and your blog post will never see organic traffic if relevant keywords are not included. Once again, human involvement is thus necessary.

Proper on-page SEO needs to be done for blog posts to be ranked. AI content simply being regurgitated and used will not cut it. Make sure that the content from AI is blended with human interventions to ensure the right keywords are incorporated.

6. Moral and Prejudice Issues

AI models are reliant on vast amounts of accessible data online. Some of these data have biases, which when reproduced by AI can be harmful. AI’s outputs might marginalize certain demographics or portray skewed depictions. This will create negative sentiments towards your post and eventually your brand if they exist in your blog writeup. 

Always make sure to verify the AI content for biases and that the article is inclusive and ethical. There should be a balance between AI enablement and human control for unbiased and ethical content. 

7. Legal and Copyright Risks

Lastly, with with AI content creation, copyright infringement are becoming common issues. For example, AI could write text for which ownership is already claimed and labeled, thus producing IP issues.

In some areas, content generated by an AI cannot be copyrighted, implying that there is no ownership of the created content. Exploration of ownership in such cases remains a gray area.

Always, before publishing any content, run AI-generated content through a plagiarism checker and edit it to make sure the content is uniquely yours. As a business owner or content creator, it is important to keep tabs on everything regarding AI copyright policies. Reach out to professionals when needed.

Final Remark

While generative AI empowers us with powerful tools to produce content, it does come with several caveats. Issues such as misinformation, ethics, brand voice, SEO, and plagiarism should always be moderated by humans.

To make the most of AI technology without exposing yourself to potential threats, use AI as a content assistant, creating a draft rather than a final version. Optimize and validate the content produced with the help of AI. Retain human involvement for content authenticity. Remember legal and ethical boundaries.

Fusing AI language models with human intelligence and oversight allows businesses to produce better, more authentic blogs that connect with their audience. What are your thoughts? Do you work with AI in content marketing for business growth? Join the discussion in the comment section below.

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Content creation drives traffic https://gtmlabs.com/content-creation/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=content-creation https://gtmlabs.com/content-creation/#respond Tue, 30 Oct 2018 07:09:00 +0000 https://gtmlabs.com/?p=342 Content creation is one effective strategy to generate organic traffic. It is sometimes also referred to as Search Engine Marketing (SEM). Unlike Ads which have to be paid, SEM something that has to earned. You have to earn the trust of your visitors by providing good relatable content.

If done well, SEM could establish you as an authority in your niche, and eventually, bring more business for you.

For starters, in this post, we will limit our content creation to writing for a blog. It is more involved than most might think.

In the physical offline world, you just need to create a story fit for human consumption. However, a post in the online world, have also to satisfy search engine ranking criteria, and fend off competition.

On the web, there are many blogs with similar content. Besides paying for ads, how can you rise above the crowd? While ranking higher in a Search Engine Result Page (SERP) is essential. However, we shouldn’t be too fixated on ranking top of the list. The holy grail is the click through to your website, this is what we should be actually focussing on.

Let’s go back to basics and understand how a customer’s purchase journey. From there, we can get some clue as to how we can get them to visit our website.

When a user searches on a particular topic, many results will appear on the SERP.

Assuming you are one of the links that appear on the page, how would you get the user to click on the link that leads back to your page? That is the first hurdle you need to overcome. If the link is not clicked, it doesn’t really matter how good the article, it is not going to be read by that web surfer.

Fortunately, there is more than one way to increase the likelihood of that click happening. In this post, we will confine ourselves to optimizing the content for that precious click.

The first step is to brainstorm on some keywords and key phrases that your visitor would likely most likely input in the search engine bar.

With the keyword list, you have generated, you next check the volume and competitiveness of each keyword or phrase.

Once you have narrowed down to a few keywords, you go back to the search engine and enter your keywords.

On the search engine results page (SERP), Ignore the results from paid Ads, you need to look at the top listed sites, and understand why they are ranked higher?

After reviewing your competitive results, you would be able to craft a more persuasive, captivating headline that would pique the visitor’s interest to want to click it.

Once you get that precious click, you want to look at providing useful, relevant content. The content not only has to be human friendly but also search engine friendly. The latter is what we termed as on-page SEO.

In the next paragraph, we will look in detail where being friendly entails from the content perspective.

Human friendly

By being human friendly, your article has to be easy to read. As a baseline, your blog post needs to be appropriately structured. There must be a good flow and proper use of English.

Spelling errors should be kept at a minimum or ideally non-existent. These errors could negatively impact the credibility of the author.

Using synonyms will prevent your post from sounding repetitive.

Using similes will make your words be more vivid and come alive.

Using metaphors will make complex concepts easier to grasp.

Just like in a mini-series, deploying appropriate hooks in your content will keep your audience reading on.

Whenever possible, having mixed content formats (i.e., using images, videos, infographics) will make your post more interesting for your audience.

Before you launch that post, there are several things you need to check, they would be grammar, spelling errors, and plagiarism.

Remember, at the end of the day, if your blog is not human friendly, your visitor would quickly abandon your site and head for another website, potentially a competitive one.

Search engine friendly

If your website is not search engine friendly, your ranking on search engines will slowly drop. This, in turn, will cause your organic traffic to be reduced to a trickle.

There are over 200+ ranking factors in Google’s algorithm. Some are more important than others.

Using the right keyword and strategically placing them in your post is one ranking factor.

However, you must not overdo it with keywords as overstuffing your post with them can get you penalized and even blacklisted by the search engines. You definitely don’t want that to happen to your site.

Using related keywords will allow search engines to better understand the context of the post, and display the page accordingly.

Take, for example, someone is interested in the animated movie – “Cars”, he will type the word “cars” in the search bar. If the website doesn’t have any related keywords to put the move “cars” in the context of the animation movie, the search engine would most likely return a page on automobiles (i.e., car models, car brands, car dealership, etc.). This is not what the user would want. Hence as a website/blog owner, you need to inject related keywords to help the search engine what your site is all about.

The length of the posts also plays a part in influencing search result pages. Your various posts need to have the appropriate length. A post of 300 words would be an excellent baseline to start.

While the list above is not exhaustive. You can now better appreciate the various steps that go into creating a human and search engine friendly post.

Remember, all your readers have choices and their arrival on your page is cerntainly not entirely by chance.

You have worked hard (i.e., doing your research to create compelling headlines) to get your visitor onto your page. You reward your reader with quality content, and hopefully, in return, they can reward you by becoming a fan of your webpage.

All of this can only happened through well-conceived planning and preparation.

With can help you with your content creation, shall we have a conversation soon? Contact us today!

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