How To AI BLOG: 9-Step Niche Domination

In this How To AI Blog, two concepts will serve you well in your quest to earn a substantial living online as an entrepreneur.

The first is automation whenever possible to scale your business, and the second is being competitive. 

Many marketers disregard what anyone else does, simply focusing on their goals and tasks. 

But what often happens is that they are unaware of what the competition is pursuing strategically. 

Consequently, they never actually get ahead or can dominate a niche. 

A blog is often a hub for online marketers to showcase their expertise and foster relationships with prospective consumers. 

It is where they develop a rapport with you and ultimately trust your recommendations as a niche leader. 

But blogging is often tedious when you think about it from a soup-to-nuts perspective. 

Everything from conducting niche research and brainstorming slants that will outperform your competitors to writing, optimizing, and monetizing the content and more can take up your entire workweek. 

Below, you will see how nine simple steps using an artificial intelligence (AI) tool can shortcut that process.

It can help you build a formidable blog capable of producing large volumes of traffic-pulling, high-converting content for you.

AI Blog Step 1: AI Will Tap Into the Demographic and Niche Research So You Don’t Have to

Research is a time-consuming process when it’s done right.

Instead of just glancing at a keyword tool result or typing a query into Google for a split second, the bloggers who are truly setting themselves apart are spending time doing more.

For example, proper research starts with knowing everything about your demographic.

Many marketers may not even know who makes up their demographic, and AI can identify them for you. 

It has access to vast amounts of data you’d never be able to sort through, and it does it instantaneously. 

AI can deliver information about their needs, goals, pain points, and struggles. 

Research also requires you to know more than what you already know about your niche. 

Even top experts are continually expanding their knowledge in their niche.

AI can quickly pinpoint new ideas, emerging technology, unique strategies, and rising trends in your niche.

Before we start, you need to know that when you find the suitable prompts that serve you best with your needs in these steps, save them to a document. 

Saving will allow you to quickly plug in your prompts to your AI every time you want fresh blog content. 

Some marketers will do this weekly, others once a month, and some even daily. 

It all depends on how much you want to do at once, individual or batch work. 

One thing you can always do is prompt AI in the very beginning to ask it how you should prompt it. You can prompt AI like this initially: 

“I need to know the best prompts to give you so you can conduct niche and demographic research for me for high-ranking blog posts. 

Please do this before we choose a slant. 

Give me a list of prompts to get AI to conduct demographic and then niche research so that you know my target audience’s age, interests, income level, consumer behaviors, and preferences – and so you know more about my selected niche, like trends, high performing keywords, and more.” 

Initially, it can give you individual prompts like, 

“What are common purchasing behaviors among consumers of [enter your niche]?” 

So if we fill in the prompt with a niche like dog toy products, it will tell us some common purchasing behaviors. 

These include quality over price, safety concerns, variety and novelty, and purpose-driven purchases (like chewing, intellectual stimulation, etc.). 

Reviews, online shopping convenience, and size and age considerations influence them. 

You can use this information for later prompts whenever you want to create a review or write a blog post addressing these issues. 

For some of the prompts, such as:

“What are current trends in the weight loss niche?” 

You will want to use AI tools with access to current information, not those stuck in 2021. 

ChatGPT might give generic answers like tailored weight loss programs, plant-based diets, and intermittent fasting. 

But if you prompt Google’s Bard for information, it can discuss the semaglutides fad, the Sirtfood diet, and others garnering lots of attention in the media and on social platforms. 

Once the initial research is complete about the demographic and niche, you will have prompts to automate the process. 

For example, every time you sit down to get more blog content, you’ll have the answers from the initial prompts to add to your new one like this: 

“For consumers concerned about the safety of the dog toys they buy, give me several blog post slants for small dog owners.”

It will give you a nice variety, including safe small dog toys for mental stimulation, DIY dog toys that are fun and safe alternatives, shopping for safe materials, age-appropriate safe toys, and so on.

AI Blog Step 2: AI Can Identify and Analyze Your Top Competitor Sites to Beat Them

Use artificial intelligence tools to identify the top bloggers in your industry.

Prompt it to give you that information as long as you use one of the AI tools to access current information.

Also ask AI what kinds of topics those individual bloggers are covering in that niche.

It can even identify which of their blog posts are the most popular so that you can see what appeals to consumers 

Competiitor Ranking Info 

You’ll be able to take the information AI provides to you about who these competitors are and insert them into other AI tools that will then dissect their strategy for you, showing you:

• which keywords do they rank for
• what keywords are they not ranking well for yet
• how much traffic do they get
• where do they get their backlinks from
• and more

So, for instance, there is a blog called The Wildest that discusses safe dog toys. 

Follow Up Detail from Ahrefs 

If you take that to a tool like Ahrefs and enter it, it will give you information about where that competitor is ranking, how much traffic they’re getting, the keywords they are ranking for, and more. 

It will also show you other search results ranking even better, such as an article by the Humane Society and all other blogs that rank for this particular keyword phrase. 

You’ll be able to see the slants these top-ranking articles use.

They include things about choosing safe dog toys, which ones to avoid, for aggressive chewers, and a variety of listicle blog posts that appeal to consumers and have a timely slant, such as The 17 Best Dog Toys of 2023. 

You can periodically have AI automatically update this information for you.

Regularly Review Competition

You have a good idea of who your competition is from week to week or month to month whenever you conduct your blog content strategy. 

Search engine results page (SERP) rankings can change instantly.

So your competition in one week may be completely different from who it is the next week or month.

You can ask a current AI tool something particular about your competitors, such as:

“I want specifics about what this site is doing and not doing that I can leverage in my content to outrank them for the keyword: safe dog toys: https://example-url.” 

It will be more specific instead of just giving you generic details, such as writing good-quality content. 

For example, this site uses long tail keyword phrases such as safe dog toys for puppies in the title, meta description, and body of the article. 

It also tells you that this blog uses images and videos and their content to help with engagement and stickiness. 

And that these file names include relevant keywords to help them rank. 

AI even tells us that this site updates its content regularly with new information. 

It keeps the content fresh and relevant. 

Also, this company is on social media, attracting traffic and backlinks for better rankings. 

This list is what they are doing correctly.

It also tells us some things they are not doing that we can exploit. 

For example, they are not targeting a specific audience so that we could target owners of large breed dogs.

They also do not use structured data and only have a few backlinks on the site.

You could outperform them on this if you make an effort.

Having AI automate all of this competitive analysis will take your business to the next level. 

Instead of getting mired down in the individual study of a competitor site, their content, ranking, etc., you will free up time.

You can even ask AI:

“What are some of that site’s most popular and well-ranking posts?” 

We already know about the safe dog toys website, which has over 100,000 views and ranks well. 

We also find out that they are ranking well for topics about:

• ten things you need to know about dog training
• how to choose the right dog food for your pup
• the best dog beds for every breed
• how to groom your dog at home
• and more

Semantic Keywords 

For each, AI will automatically tell you how many views it has and what keyword phrase it ranks well for. You can ask:

“What semantic keywords is this site using to rank for the article about safe dog toys?”

It will tell you that they are targeting semantic keywords:

• best safe dog toys
• safe dog toys for puppies  
• safe dog toys for small dogs
• safe dog toys for large dogs
• non-toxic dog toys,
• durable dog toys
• natural dog toys
• interactive dog toys 

AI provides this with a simple prompt. 

You don’t have to scour each article and try to identify this information and write it down manually. 

The AI automation process for research and competitive analysis is a true time saver.

AI Blog Step 3: AI Will Hand You an Endless Supply of Slants for Your Blog Publishing Schedule

Now it’s time to have AI deliver a ton of content slants to you for your blog. 

You’ll start with the prompt information you’ve already gathered.

It will include demographics, niche research, and competitive analysis. 

Again, we can prompt AI to tell us the best way to prompt it if our goal is to rank higher than the competition for our niche topic. 

Outrank Your Competition

It will give us ideas based on individual niche performance goals.

For example, it tells us we can have AI identify high-performing content and develop competitive slants. 

Based on the dog training niche, AI might ask us to cover the following:

• basic dog training commands
• dog training for puppies,
• specific breeds,
• positive reinforcement
• assertive dog training
• and more 

Set these general topics aside whenever you need new content for this category. 

You can ask AI to give you more blog slants for each idea when needed.

And you can prompt AI to give you the following: 

“a list of 10 blog post slant titles for posts about dog training for puppies” 

AI will deliver the results like this:

1.  How to Potty Train Your Puppy in 7 Days or Less

2.   The 5 Mistakes Most Puppy Owners Make (and How to Avoid Them)

3.   How to Socialize Your Puppy and Prevent Fear and Aggression

4.   The Best Toys for Puppies of All Ages

5.   Stop Your Puppy from Chewing Everything

6.   Teach Your Puppy Basic Commands

7.   Crate Train Your Puppy

8.   How to Exercise Your Puppy

9.   Groom Your Puppy

10. Deal with Common Puppy Problems

Some of them aren’t relevant, like dog toys, so weed those out. 

Automate keyword targeting 

Automate the keyword targeting process by saying:

“For the article about how to stop your puppy from chewing everything, what primary keyword phrase should I target, and also give me a list of semantic keyword phrases to use.” 

AI does the work for you! 

It tells you to target how to stop the puppy chewing and gives you semantic phrases like:

• stop a puppy from chewing furniture
• stop a puppy from chewing shoes
• how to train a puppy not to chew
• what to do if the puppy chews
• and so on 

You can also prompt AI for a specific topic you want to cover. 

For example, if you have a weight loss blog and you know of a trend in semaglutide use, you can prompt AI like this:

“For the weight loss niche, regarding the trend of semaglutide use, what are some good slants for blog posts that will have high volume searches and that I’ll be able to rank well for with lower competition?”

It will give you slants you can use, such as how semaglutide works for weight loss, semaglutide side effects, what to eat when using semaglutide, etc. 

You can then ask it for the primary keyword and semantic keywords. 

The primary one it tells you to target is semaglutide for weight loss, followed by semantic keyword phrases such as:

• how does semaglutide work for weight loss,
• semaglutide side effects for weight loss,
• semaglutide dosage for weight loss,
• semaglutide effectiveness for weight loss, etc. 

AI is pulling from data analytics, social media trends, and more. 

You would take hours, if not days, to pinpoint the correct information, and even then, you might struggle to rank for it. 

But AI is doing this automatically with a simple prompt so that you can shortcut the process significantly.

AI Blog Step 4: AI Is Going to Write Your Blog Content for Perfect Readability and Engagement

Now, you can automate the entire writing process for your blog.

Keep in mind that you have complete oversight over this process.

Ensure that posts on your blog align with the expertise you want to convey to your audience.

You are responsible for ensuring that what AI delivers to you is accurate and helpful to your target audience.

Don’t simply give AI a prompt and publish whatever it posts to your blog.

It can potentially write inaccurate or confusing information that can damage your brand and reader. 

So we will prompt AI like this:

” My goal is to rank higher than the competition for my niche topic. What are the best prompts to use with AI if I want you to write a blog post on a certain slant using a specific list of keywords?” 

It will give you a list of prompts that will help you get the ball rolling with your content. It will target a specific keyword and also use the semantic ones.

When writing the actual article for your blog, Google’s Bard is less likely to do a good job of being comprehensive.

ChatGPT is better at the overall writing process

So it comes up with a more extended title: How to Stop Your Puppy from Chewing Everything: A Comprehensive Guide to Puppy Chewing Behavior and Prevention. 

Then it delivers an introduction, formatted and bold sections, numerical list sections, bullet points, and an excellent conclusion.

You can then prompt AI to expand on ideas if you want it even longer automatically.

For example, one bullet point says: “Puppy-Proofing: Regularly check your home to ensure there are no accessible chewing temptations for your puppy.”

Automatically have AI expand its response

“Expand on this significantly: Puppy-Proofing: Regularly check your home to ensure there are no accessible chewing temptations for your puppy.” 

AI will then develop a new section for your blog content called: Puppy Proofing: A Comprehensive Approach to Preventing Unwanted Chewing. 

This change ensures that your entire article has been thoroughly exhausted, which is what Google and other search engines seek.

The new section will now expand the article so that it covers how to evaluate the space from your puppy’s eyes:

• secure loose items
• protect your furniture
• restrict access to certain areas
• protect your plants
• and regularly check in on puppy proofing because it’s not a one-time tas 

Remember, you also have control over how the structure of your blog content unfolds. 

You might be making a product review list, a comparison of ideas, or another format that appeals to you personally.

Ensure you prompt AI to adhere to your instructions on that.

Once AI has completed the writing process

You then want to read through every word to make sure the information is accurate and informative for your readers. 

You can delete anything you want, or if you expand on a concept, you can prompt AI to do that.

AI Blog Step 5: AI Can Even Personalize Your Blog to Help Build a Rapport with Your Readers
 

Next, you want to have AI weave some personalization into your blog content.

Personalization helps set the tone for your blog post by including some stories you can prompt AI with, but it can write for you from a casual and conversational viewpoint. 

So first, let’s prompt AI by asking it:

“What’s the best way to have AI include some personalization in a blog post? 

Give me a list of prompts to use so that my blog content that AI writes appears to be written by me based on my own stories and personal viewpoints.”

You can do this before you even have it write the blog post. 

Or, you can have it create a paragraph that you can include here and there in the blog post itself.

For example, we can prompt AI to include a paragraph that we can put directly above or below its introduction by saying: 

“I want you to write a paragraph to include in my blog post about stopping puppy chewing behavior that only talks about my personal experience.

My dog, Jack, a 5-pound chihuahua I’d just rescued, chewed up all my shoes the night before a job interview. 

Make the paragraph funny and relatable.” 

The AI may include a paragraph that may or may not be your tone and style. 

If it misses, just prompt AI to be a bit more of however you want it to be – casual, etc. 

It will deliver wording like this: 

“…I awoke to find my shoe collection transformed into what looked like a modern art installation, all courtesy of little Jack. 

There they were – my leather loafers, running shoes, even my lucky interview shoes – all rendered into a doggie’s version of a midnight snack.

I learned two lessons that day: always put your shoes away, and never underestimate a 5-pound Chihuahua with an appetite for adventure!” 

You can use this prompt throughout the content. 

For example, you want to include a little personalization under a section about rotating the available chew toys in your house. 

In that case, you might prompt AI by saying: 

“Write a few sentences about how I like to take my Chihuahua Jack to the toy store and let him pick out new chew toys. Be playful and funny about it.”

The results are fantastic:

“Taking Jack to the toy store has become our hilarious mini-version of a canine Supermarket Sweep. 

You see, Jack takes charge rather than me choosing his chew toys. 

His little legs dart from aisle to aisle as he peruses the selection, sniffing out the perfect toy like a pint-sized Sherlock Holmes on a mission.” 

It is very descriptive, and the reader can instantly picture a tiny Chihuahua going aisle from aisle automation to pick out the best chew toys. 

And AI automatically does this for you without you having to sit there and brainstorm something creative and personal on your own. 

It can make up things for you if you need it to. 

You can prompt AI like this: “I don’t have a personal story about using redirection with Jack, but can you come up with one for me?” 

AI will create a playful anecdote about using redirection with Jack the Chihuahua using a squeaky toy to redirect his attention whenever he engages in destructive behavior.

This process is not an ethical dilemma where you claim to have lost 100 pounds on a particular diet, but rather a cute story about a dog needing redirection and giving an example of how to do it. 

AI Blog Step 6: AI Knows How to Optimize Each Blog Post for SERP Rankings
 

Part of what AI will do when you give it the primary keyword phrase and the semantic keywords is to optimize your content for those keywords. 

However, you can also ask AI at the end of the creation process to ensure it optimizes the content for search engine page rankings. 

Before we do that, let’s go to AI and ask it what the proper way to prompt it is like this: 

“What’s the best way to prompt AI to ensure that AI optimizes my blog post for peak performance in the search engines? 

Give me a list of suitable prompts for this goal.” 

AI will give you a list of prompts you can use from the beginning before the writing process takes place. 

You can also prompt it to provide you with new prompts for situations where you want AI to optimize existing blog content.

That will include:

• generating a meta description for the blog post containing a particular keyword phrase
• ensuring the keyword appears in the first 100 words
• and making any revisions to help it rank better in the SERPs

You can also use keyword tools to analyze the on-page SEO factors for you, including your interlinking strategy, file names and titles, header tags and anchor tags, and even the technical aspect of your blog. 

For example, it can tell you how fast your blog post loads and whether you need to compress any images. 

AI can tell you if your content is optimized for mobile viewing and across all browsers, and so on. 

It will ensure that not only do search bots find your blog and content appealing, but human visitors will have a positive experience and stay on the site longer so that your overall SEO begins to improve.

AI Blog Step 7: AI Has the Ability to Handle the Monetization Strategy for Your Blog
 

For this step, we will first prompt AI to give us ideas on how to have it help us monetize our content like this:  

“How should I prompt AI if I want it to deliver a strategy for monetizing my blog post? 

Give me the various prompts to ensure AI helps me maximize my earnings with my blog content.” 

Initially, AI will come back with generic monetization tips for the prompts. 

It will include “Provide a strategy for monetizing my blog through affiliate marketing” or “Provide tips on how I can use my blog posts to drive traffic to my ecommerce store.” 

If you want something concrete for your blog post, you can prompt it like this:

“Give me specific prompts for monetizing a blog post about stopping puppies from chewing everything.”

That way, it gives you specific prompts such as: “Provide a strategy for integrating affiliate links into a blog post about stopping puppies from chewing, focusing on dog toys, training tools, and pet-friendly furniture protectors.” 

It also gives us information about prompting it for sponsored products, monetizing with an eBook for sale, offering consultation services, including an offer for premium content, and more. 

Let’s take the first option about affiliate marketing. It will give us the overall blog strategy of introducing the problem, solution, and products that can help people. 

We can take the affiliate products as solutions sections that include dog toys, training tools, and pet-friendly furniture protectors. 

Go to Google Bard to better understand how consumers search for these products and which ones sell best. 

We can prompt AI to research for us by saying:

“I have a blog post about stopping puppies from chewing everything. 

My goal is to monetize it with affiliate links to dog toys, training tools, and furniture protectors.

How are consumers searching for these, and what are the best ones to recommend that will convert?” 

AI will tell us to ensure that we’re using the keywords people use to search for these products, which it can also provide. 

Then it tells us precisely what types of dog toys, tools, and furniture protectors people search for using specific keywords. 

If you want to monetize your blog post with an info product of your own, you can ask AI what a high-converting slant for an eBook would be on the topic. 

It will tell you to choose slants like this:

• How to stop your puppy from chewing everything in seven days or less
• Seven-step foolproof method to stop your puppy from chewing everything
• Simple, science-backed techniques that will stop your puppy from chewing everything
• Three most common reasons why puppies chew everything and how to prevent them
• The ultimate guide to controlling your puppy from chewing everything

It even gives you the reasons for choosing those particular slants. 

For example:  

• first one has a promise of quick results;
• second one associates the number seven with good luck and success;
• third one emphasizes simplicity and science, which appeals to people who want results;
• fourth one targets those who want to understand the root cause,
• and the last one delivers the promise of comprehensive information 

AI Blog Step 8: AI Can Get the Traffic to Your Blog Rolling with Social Sharing Automation 

Social media will be a great, free platform for you to use to kick-start your traffic generation to your blog content. 

We can start by prompting AI like this: 

“What prompts should I use with AI to help me with a social marketing strategy to drive traffic to my blog posts? 

I want help with platforms, scheduling, content creation, and engagement.”

The results it gives you can be specific to certain platforms or generic across any social media site or app. 

For example, you might ask AI: 

“How can I effectively use Instagram to drive traffic to my blog post about how to stop a puppy from chewing everything? 

Include suggestions for post types, hashtags, and engagement.”

You can also start with more generic questions with AI, such as having it help you pinpoint which platforms your demographic is most active on, what they are searching for, and what they engage with the most. 

But if you already know which platforms, a question like the one above is perfect.

The AI will give you a complete plan for using Instagram feed posts, Instagram stories, Instagram reels, hashtags, and your engagement strategy. 

It even gives you words you can use as a call to action or a teaser so that people will click through and go to the blog. 

It instructs you that if you have access to advanced features because you have enough followers, such as the swipe-up feature, you can send people directly to your blog with different call-to-action statements.

From there, you can automate other aspects of your social marketing.

For example, AI tells us we can use short video content as an Instagram reel.

But if you don’t know what to put in one, you can demonstrate a training technique to stop puppies from chewing. 

It gives you the list of hashtags you need to use and tells you to ask a question to stimulate engagement. 

AI can automatically work for you if you don’t know what kind of question to ask.

AI Blog Step 9: AI Is Going to Analyze and Tweak Your Blog Content for Better Performance
 

Just as you used AI to spy on the competition and get a feel for their strategy, you can use this same technology to help you better your performance. 

Even if AI initially created your blog content for you, it can continually improve and analyze its work.

There are so many AI tools out there.

You can put your content into different tools to see how each would want to improve your strategy, whether with keywords, content, multimedia aspects, or something else. 

But with many of these AI tools, you’ll be able to see: 

• which of your posts is performing best
• which are ranking best and for what keyword phrases
• how consumers are interacting with your content
• which ones are converting best in click-throughs and monetization
• and more

You can even use AI to do split testing with content styles on your blog. 

Use the A/B split test approach to see which type of content performs best, which monetization strategies bring in more money, etc.

It will often require one of the paid AI tools to give you all this information. 

You can access these using a monthly or annual payment strategy. 

Some free tools can provide information about what works best on your site, as long as it can access current information and you provide a link directly to your blog or a specific post. 

You can prompt AI to give you appropriate analytical prompts by asking this:

“What are some helpful prompts I can give to AI to help me with analytics and split testing so that my blog is at peak performance for optimization and monetization?” 

It can help you with everything from reducing the bounce rate on specific blog posts to understanding what metrics you should measure on your blog to have it perform better. 

If you want assistance from AI in improving the click-through rate on some of your affiliate links, AI can devise a strategy for that as long as you ask it to. 

And then, it can automate the process for you when you prompt it to do something like come up with a split test strategy for your blog content. 

You can prompt it on specific posts like as follows:

“Give me a list of ideas for split testing my blog post about stopping puppies from chewing everything.”

AI will automatically come up with a strategy. 

It will instantly give you the following:

• a split-tested headline
• ideas for changing images
• different call-to-action statements
• unique content layouts to try,
• changes to your introduction paragraph
• the length of the post itself
• ways to test the placement of your affiliate links
• different ways to describe the products
• tests for social sharing buttons, and
• conclusion statements

AI is the closest thing to having a personal assistant you could hope for when automating your blog process and handing it over to someone (or something) else. 

While you still have to prompt, the lion’s share of the work is handled by AI. 

Your job reduces to something where you’re ensuring quality and accuracy for your audience while reaping the rewards of having AI by your side.