10 ways to use AI in blogging

It takes about 4 hours to write a blog post on average (Orbitmedia, 2024).

But It’s the AI age now. More and more bloggers are using AI. The average time will soon be around 2 hours.

Whether you are a beginner blogger or a veteran, you might be curious about the different uses of AI in blogging.

So if you want to know how bloggers use AI here are 10 ways to use AI in blogging.

What problems does AI solve for bloggers?

Bloggers face several major obstacles:

• Consistency is the most common struggle.
• Publishing high-quality content requires a lot of effort.
• With millions of new articles published daily, standing out becomes a real puzzle. It’s hard.
• Writing authoritative blog posts across various topics can be challenging.
• Blogging is a time-consuming business.

AI solves these problems simply.

Bloggers can now use AI to create quality content faster.

I’ve thought about these problems, my own use of AI, and how others use it. I’m sharing everything in this blog post.

Here are the key uses of AI in blogging:

• Research and ideas generation
• Mistake correction
• Image generation
• Generate blog post audio
• SEO optimization and data analysis
• Post scheduling optimization
• Plugin recommendations
• Blog issue solving
• Write promotional social posts and emails
• Automatic translation

10 ways to use AI in blogging

1. Blog post Research and Ideas Generation

Most AI tools cannot write a blog post that feels exactly like it was written by a human.

What AI gives you is a draft or a bunch of ideas.

So if you ask it to generate a full blog post, first you need to use a great prompt, and second you need to do heavy editing.

– What’s a good prompt to write a blog post?

A good prompt for a blog post needs to specify the writing style, emotional tone, word count, number of chapters, target keywords and title.

You will then have a draft that you must edit to make it feel human, but also because this way you will truly own your work.

You will create something original and unique.

– How can you use ai to write a blog post?

You can use AI to generate blog post drafts, ideas, titles, meta descriptions, outlines, quotes, stats, problems, solutions, and everything you want.

It’s ideal for research.

You should not generate blog using ai at 100%. AI and you are a team.

– Does Google allow you to use AI to write blog posts?

Yes Google explains that they encourage people to be more creative with AI.

As long as it’s not used to spam, produce low-quality content and respects EEAT.

– What’s EEAT?

EEAT stands for Experience, Expertise, Authoritativeness and Trustworthiness.

t’s a way for a blog post to show Google that it’s high-quality and helpful.

Here is the “Overall AI Adoption in Blogging (Orbitmedia, 2024):

• In 2022, almost no one was using AI.
• By 2023, 65% of bloggers were using AI.
• In 2024, 80% of bloggers were using AI.”

2-Correct blog post mistakes

Most blog posts have between 1000 words and 3000 words.

Why spend a lot of time searching for mistakes manually when you can ask AI to correct mistakes? That takes about 5 seconds.

Dear readers, we can agree that whether you like AI or not that’s one use case we all should use in business.

Even a single mistake won’t look professional and will make the user uncomfortable.

They might doubt your skill.

Even though skills in your niche are not related to grammar mistakes, except if you are a language teacher.

So I personally always add my blog post in ChatGPT after I’m done and ask:

“Correct mistakes”.

The first time, it often tweaks too much and adds things it thinks make it better, but that can also give a robotic style. And we don’t want that.

So after it corrected the mistakes, if I see too many changes that I don’t want, I just say: “you changed too much, stay faithful.”

Then it will give me exactly my initial input. ChatGPT will correct only the mistakes without adding parts or its own style.

3-Generate blog post images

Every blog post needs at least 1 image.

But you can’t just go on Google and take whatever image you want.

The copyright is very strict about what you can add to your blog. You can add something today and 5 years later get a lawsuit, so be very careful.

That’s why we bloggers don’t just take images randomly from the internet.

Thankfully we have premium image banks or free image banks like Pixabay and Pexels.

Always read their licenses to be sure of the exact copyright terms you get.

There’s something putting the image bank market up and down.

Yeah you guessed it. The game changed with AI.

AI produces images faster.

The problem with image banks is that many people use the same image.

But with AI, you get something that only you in the world use.

It’s way cheaper than premium image banks too. The best premium AI image tool right now is MidJourney.

You can use free credits on the best free AI image tools like Leonardo AI, Ideogram, Canva AI text to image App.  I checked and you have the right to use them for your blog.

4-Generate blog post audio

Google loves it when we give rich content.

The algorithm sees it positively if you add images, videos, boards, graphics, links, or audio to your blog post.

AI voice generators are pretty good and can help you with that.

They can even clone your own voice, which means the AI voice will be exactly like your real voice.

For voice generation, you can use ElevenLabs or Synthesia. Both are excellent but you will need to pay for regular use.

You can turn your blog post into a podcast with a very realistic voice using NotebookLM. This one is free for now.

You can read my articles about NotebookLM and get an example of how good its podcast is.

5-Keyword research

ALL THE ANALYTICS AND SEO TOOLS USE AI. OK, I’m done with this part. You can move to the next point. Lol!

Yeah I’m not kidding. Do you think humans have time to collect info themselves from different sources to give you analytics or the best keywords?

That’s one of the oldest uses of AI by the way.

Many bloggers who use Google Analytics, Google search suggestions, SEMrush, Ubersuggest, Ahrefs, or Keyword Surfer have been using AI without knowing it.

AI has already been doing the job. That’s why with good prompts, ChatGPT and its friends can really give you good keywords for your blog or even Pinterest pins.

6-Post scheduling

You can use AI to find the best times to schedule your post.

WordPress has a native scheduler and for social media you can use tools like Buffer or Hootsuite.

As a blogger never do the mistakes I did at the beginning by neglecting Pinterest.

Tailwind uses AI to pick the best times to post and suggests which pins to share more often.

These tools are not AI tools, but you or they, can use AI to optimize the process.

7-Plugins recommendations

More than half of the plugins I use on my blog were recommended by ChatGPT.

ChatGPT is very good at giving you “the best of” something or comparing tools and their alternatives.

I compared Google AdSense to Ezoic. It said Ezoic pays more and gives a good user experience, so I prefer Ezoic.

I asked what’s the best plugin for resizing images for free, and it said Smush. So I use Smush. It’s as simple as that.

And when I compare it to what’s on YouTube and Google, ChatGPT is aligned with them.

AI just does the synthesis and saves you time.

8. Blog issues solving

From day 1 to today, about half a year into blogging, I’ve been having a lot of problems running the blog.

It’s part of the journey.

YouTube and my hosting customer service, which is Hostinger, are the only resources I use when I’m really stuck.

But so many times, I’ve had issues understanding their explanations, or they felt overwhelming. So, ChatGPT has been doing this job too.

Once again, the answers is AI.

On Hostinger, you can talk to customer service whenever you want. But usually, they recommend starting with their AI chatbot.

If it can’t answer, a human will come for further assistance.

So once again, AI appeared. More and more companies will use AI as the first step in customer service.

If you are not using AI in your business in this AI era, you are missing out on many opportunities to provide more value to your customers and earn more.

9. Automatic translation

My blog is in English and French.

Automatic translation tools like Google Translate or DeepL are examples of AI in use. I use the TranslatePress plugin for my blog.

It’s the best for a bilingual website because it can index your URLs and separate their SEO performance.

For multilingual blogs, you can use GTranslate, Weglot, Polylang, or WPML.

10. Write promotional social posts and emails

As a serious blogger doing it as a business, you can’t rely solely on Google’s SEO.

You need to promote your content through email or on social networks to drive more traffic. Whether it’s Threads, Facebook, Instagram, X, Pinterest, LinkedIn or Reddit. According to your niche and style.

But regardless of the platform, AI can help you create posts quickly.

You can use batching, which involves creating multiple posts at once for a week, a month or even longer.

5 Free AI tools you need to write blog posts

The best free AI tools for blogging are ChatGPT, Claude AI, Grammarly, NotebookLM, and Quillbot.

ChatGPT

It’s the all-in-one tool for writing. It can generate drafts, ideas, outlines, keywords, and correct mistakes.

Claude AI

It can do the same things as ChatGPT. However, it’s less effective for very specific changes like correcting mistakes while keeping the original style.

Claude AI doesn’t “listen” as easily as ChatGPT.

But Claude AI is known to sound more human than ChatGPT. It’s a very good AI tool for human-like long-form content.

Grammarly

ChatGPT and Claude AI might correct overall mistakes, but you have less control during the process.

Some creators prefer to add their blogs to Grammarly’s editor. It shows miswritten words and sentences, which you can click to change easily.

You have a copyright checker.

You can also rephrase sentences and get detailed analytics on the quality of your text.

NotebookLM

This tool can help you turn your blog posts into a podcast, but it does much more.

You can upload up to 50 competitor blog post links and ask anything about them.

For example what are the keywords, summaries, main ideas, common points and more. It depends on your creativity.

The point is not to copy their content but to understand what’s working for them and take inspiration.

Bloggers do a lot of research like journalists.

In NotebookLM You can also upload files, YouTube videos, and your own text.

Quillbot

This tool does a lot in content writing, but I only use it as an AI detector. It’s the best free AI content detector for writing.

Quillbot is accurate and can guide your editing by setting goals.

For me, my blog posts must be detected as at least 60% written by a human. Most of the time, I edit so much that they’re detected as 100% written by a human.

It doesn’t just show results. When you read, you also feel how human it sounds.

What Are the Limitations of AI Writing?

AI writing assistance is faaar from being perfect.

There are factors that can differentiate between 2 AI-assisted bloggers, or between a good blog post and an excellent one.

AI in blogging has its limits that you should know:

– AI Lacks Personal Touch

AI can’t replace your personal experience or unique style.

Remember, IT’S A TOOL not a replacement for your own creativity.

– Fact-Checking

AI can generate incorrect information. It’s called hallucination.

For example if you ask for a statistic, it might give you a source, but you must go to the original source to confirm it.

Sometimes AI output is not trustworthy, not updated, poorly formulated or completely inexistent.

Human verification is necessary, you can’t skip this step. We call it proofreading.