10 Ways to use ChatGPT as a Blogger

Welcome to the world of blogging with ChatGPT. If you’ve been on the internet since November 2022 (ha), then you probably would have seen a lot of people talking about a new tool from OpenAI called ChatGPT. But what exactly is it, and how can we use ChatGPT as a blogger?

What is ChatGPT?

ChatGPT is an AI tool that allows users to input questions or commands, and the tool spits out copy/text for them.

When you enter your request or command, you click or hit enter and the AI writing tool will answer your question or complete your request.

Note: As of Jan 2023, ChatGPT only had data in the backend of the tool up until 2018. You also need to fact-check all the data it spits out for you.

Setting up ChatGPT is super easy. You can do it all for free, in fact, and head straight to the website and start inputting requests. However! You can also sign up for free, and this will allow you to keep track of past commands.

10 Ways to use ChatGPT as a blogger

While I’m a big advocate for a person doing the writing behind a blog post and showing our creativity and personality in a post, I do think there are lots of ways we could use ChatGPT as a blogger. Here are a few ideas to get you started.

Blog outlines

If outlining your blog post is something you struggle with, then using an AI tool like ChatGPT is a great option.

Using AI tools like ChatGPT to write outlines for blog posts can be a great way to quickly generate a nice flow for your blog post. Sometimes we might have all the ideas but we’re not quite sure how to lay them out in a way that’s going to be beneficial for our readers.

By having an AI tool like ChatGPT outline a post for us, we can easily then go in and write all our paragraphs. You could even get the tool to generate a couple of different outlines for the same post for you, and then you could select one that resonates with you the most or that you think is going to be the best option.

💡 Tip: Using a tool like Magic Write on Canva also creates great blog post outlines. Don’t have a Canva account? It’s free to join! Click here to learn more and sign up.

Blog post ideas

AI tools like ChatGPT are perfect for coming up with blog post ideas. Or rather, letting the tool give you some ideas.

Using ChatGPT for blog post ideas is so fast and I’ve found it generates some really great ideas. It’s also a great way to get creative and come up with topics that you would have never thought of, or a different angle (much like the headline idea).

If the blog post ideas it’s come up for you aren’t quite what you need, you can always adjust your request to narrow it down or broaden your query.

Paraphrase or rewrite sentences/paragraphs

Are your paragraphs not quite flowing as you want them to? You could use ChatGPT to paraphrase your work and see if helps.

This would work particularly well if you’ve got a series of blog posts where you need to include very similar information in each of them but you don’t want to say the same thing word for word. You’re asking ChatGPT to paraphrase your own work.

Here’s an example of what ChatGPT did with the paragraph above:

“ChatGPT can be especially useful if you have multiple blog posts that require similar information, but you want to avoid repeating yourself verbatim. It can help you rephrase and reword your own content.”

Not too shabby eh?

Creating headlines for your blog posts

Headlines or titles are something I struggle with sometimes, so getting a list of ideas to help me out is really beneficial.

If headlines are just not your jam, using ChatGPT is a great way to get some inspiration. Tell the tool what you’d like it to do (eg write 10 headlines for a blog post about the best places to eat in London), and see the options roll on in.

You can use it to quickly generate a range of headlines that you can then tweak and ensure your keywords for that blog post are included in the headline.

I like doing this, actually, because as well as giving some great options, some of which I’ve used before, it also allows you to explore different ideas and angles for your post that you might not have thought about before.

Creating CTAs

A CTA is a Call to Action. You’ll notice that on 99% of my blog posts, you’ll find a question at the end of them or an invitation for you to do something. This is a Call to Action or a CTA.

They’re things like ‘comment below if you agree or disagree’, or ‘click here to grab my freebie’, or ‘if you feel like a blog coach might be your next investment, flick me a message on Instagram’.

They’re short phrases or questions that prompt our readers (in this case, you!) to do something.

But sometimes it’s tricky to come up with CTAs, especially if you’re writing a lot on your blog or over on social media. That’s where ChatGPT can come in.

I asked ChatGPT to write me 5 CTAs for a blog post which showcases the top 10 Young Adult books coming out this year and here’s what it gave me:

Now as you can see, it didn’t QUITE give me what I wanted. I’m not selling a book at all, but the general premise is there. I could either adapt these to something that suits me more or refines my request a bit more and try again.

Email marketing

I really like writing emails (and I LOVE using Mailerlite, which is the platform that I use to send all my emails), but sometimes I get a bit of a mind-fart and can’t figure out what to write about. There are a few ways you could use AI tools for email marketing.

Generating quotes

Don’t want to trawl through articles to find a good quote to insert into your blog post? ChatGPT can do that for you!

I asked ChatGPT to generate some quotes for me, and while some of them were listed as ‘Unknown’ authors, some of them were pretty good. You’d always want to double-check online that the person that the AI tool is saying said something, actually DID say it, but it’s a good starting point.

Summarising or concluding

This is something I wasn’t sure how well was going to work. But one of the ways you could use ChatGPT for blogging is for summarising your blog posts or asking it to write you a conclusion from the text you’d already written.

I’ll give you an example. I copy-and-pasted my blog post, 5 Tips for Avoiding a Reading Slump, into the text bar on ChatGPT and asked it to summarise the blog post for me.

Click here to go and check out that blog post. Then see what it suggested as a summary:

“This blog post provides 5 tips on avoiding a reading slump for book lovers. The tips include reading what one enjoys, trying out different formats, setting a goal for fun, joining a book club, and taking breaks. The post emphasises that reading should be enjoyable and not a chore, and suggests finding what works for the individual reader. The post also encourages readers to share their own experiences and tips on avoiding reading slumps.”

Okay … so that’s pretty good, right?!

It pretty much nailed my blog post in a paragraph. Obviously, you’d need to tweak it and add your own flare to it, but for a starting point, it’s pretty accurate!

Social media posts

There are so many ways you can use ChatGPT as a blogger for your social media posts. In fact, I think that perhaps it does better at the shorted content pieces than the longer ones.

Here are some ideas for using ChatGPT for social media:

Bonus: While Pinterest isn’t a social media platform, you could always ask ChatGPT to write a Pinterest Pin description for you. Remember that you need to use your keywords for Pinterest, so you may need to adjust the description it gives you. But it’s a good starting point if you’re stuck.

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