In this article, we’ll explore how you can use AI to write articles faster than ever before.

Writing is an essential skill for any content marketer, however, it can be a daunting task if you’re new to it.

The truth is that it takes a lot of time, energy and resources to create great content.

And with the amount of competition out there, it can be hard to keep up with the pace of writing and stay ahead of the game.

But, what if there was a way to make the process easier?

What if you had a tool that could help you write articles faster and better?

Well you do, and it’s called AI writing.

Therefore ,in this guide, I’ll uncover all the vital steps you must take to write articles with the help of AI.

Let’s dive right in.

What is AI writing?

AI writing, or artificial intelligence writing, is the process of using computer algorithms to generate human-sounding and coherent text.

This type of AI technology uses language models (like GPT-3), natural language processing (NLP) and pre-trained data to generate content.

An AI writing software can take a written template, or even just a few words, and generate an entire article out of it. However, it’s not only for generating new content, you can also use AI writers to improve existing content.

These types of AI writing tools have gained popularity quickly, mostly because they can drastically reduce the amount of time it takes to create content.

But also because they allow you to quickly and efficiently generate high-quality content that is tailored to your needs.

And with technology constantly moving forward, it’s to be expected that AI writing software will become even better in the future. Which can be hard to comprehend, because as you’re about to see, they’re quite capable right now.

Moreover, AI writing is not limited to just articles.

You can use it to create all types of content, from blog posts and social media updates to ads and TikTok video scripts.

AI writing, both as software and as a concept, has the potential to revolutionize the way we create content. It allows us to create more engaging and accurate content in less time.

Meaning that you get more time to focus on other tasks, which is great if you’re a solopreneur.

Creating the perfect AI writing process

By following these steps you can create a near-perfect AI writing process:

1. Identify the target audience: The first thing you need to do is to identify your target audience and ensure that you’re about to create content that is tailored to their needs and interests.
2. Identify keywords and phrases: Then you should (recommended) make a list of relevant keywords and phrases that your target audience are using when they search for stuff online.
3. Create an outline: Based on your keywords, you now need to create an outline of the article that contains the main points you want to cover.
4. Generate the content: Now it’s time for the fun part where you get to use your AI writing software to generate articles for every keywords on your list.
5. Edit and refine the content: Once you have a draft, it’s about time to edit and refine the content to make sure it is engaging and relevant. Also, ensure that your article is grammatically correct and natural-sounding.
6. Optimize for SEO: The last thing to do before publishing is to optimize your content for SEO by incorporating relevant keywords, phrases and semantic keywords. This might take a bit of re-writing, but it’s totally worth it.
7. Publish: The last thing you need to do is to publish your new article on your website so search engines can index it.

How to write articles using AI – step-by-step!

Alright, so it’s time to start writing your article using AI.

To do this you need two things…

First, you need a keyword or a key phrase and an idea of what you want your article to cover.

Second, in order to do any AI writing at all, you need an AI writing software. And if you don’t want to commit right away, you can relax, most have free trials.

For this example, I’ll be using Writesonic, since that’s my favorite AI tool.

However, there are more alternatives available, I even have a guide on some of the best ones right here.

With that out of the way, let’s write an article using the power of AI.

Step #1: Fire up Writesonic

The first thing to do before any writing can take place is to sign in to Writesonic so you can access the dashboard.

If you don’t have a Writesonic account, you can try it for free here.

Step #2: Pick a template

Next it’s time to pick a use case that can write long-form content. Luckily for use, Writesonic has just the right thing.

Go to the Library to find all the templates, then Article and Blogs.

From there you need to find the Article Writer 4.0.

This template uses AI to write up to 3K-word SEO-friendly articles in 3 easy steps. It also gives you the ability to choose keywords, tones, language, CTAs and point-of-view.

Step #3: Get keywords

When you first start up the Article Writer 4.0, it will take you to step 0, which actually is a extra help step.

There are two ways to go here…

If you don’t have any keywords, and just know what you want your article to be about, enter it in the Topic field and hit Search Keywords.

I’ll be using the topic idea ‘backpacking’ for this to get my keywords for a backpacking guide article.

This will automatically do some keywords research for you.

When it’s done, Writesonic will display around 30 keywords, including their volume, difficulty and traffic.

All you have to do now is to choose the ones that fit your article the best and hit the Next button at the top. (I found two that’ll be a good fit for my guide).

The other way is if you already have keywords and phrases prepared from earlier.

Then all you have to do is to enter them in the Keywords field and click Next.

Pro tip: To ensure high content quality, only add keywords that are closely related to each other. There’s also no need to add more than one keyword if that’s all you’ve got.

Step #4: Generate ideas

Now it’s time to generate some ideas for your article.

As you can see, Writesonic has auto-populated both the topic and the keyword fields from the previous step.

From here, you need to set Tone of Voice, Point of View (typically always First Person) and Language. I’ll get to the CTA shortly.

Then click Generate to get some H1 heading ideas for your article.

For my article, I’ll go for an excited tone to get the reader excited about backpacking.

Once you find a idea that you like, click on it to select it and it will automatically take you to the next step.

Pro tip: You can generate as many of these as you like, and I suggest that you try a few different tones just to see what it comes up with.

Step #5: Pick an outline

Alright, pretty much halfway there now…

And now it’s time to figure out an outline for your article.

As you can see, Writesonic remembers the title, keywords, tone and POV from the previous step. So all you really have to do is click Generate Outlines.

The AI will now come up with some ideas for your article outline (aka. all your H2 headings).

When you’ve generated the outline you like, click on it and it will take you to the next step.

Pro tip #1: Try different tones to find an outline that matches what you need.

Pro tip #2: The AI will generate outlines in sets. But if you find that there are heading form different sets that you’d like to use, check the Select Individual Outlines at the top. This allows you to pick headings manually.

Pro tip #3: If you have your own headlines you’d like to add, whatever you do, don’t add them now by editing the sets. The editor freaks out and forgets how to do spaces and things. You can add them in the next step.

Step #6: Generate the article draft

Now it’s time to use the AI to write the initial draft for your article.

If you look to the left, you’ll see that the software remembers the title, keywords and heading from the earlier steps.

What you need to do at this point is to set the tone, and now is also the time to add a call-to-action if you have one. It’s not necessary to add a CTA to be able to generate an article.

But if you do, this feature will incorporate it into your article automatically which is a nice touch.

Also, if you click and hold on the dotted field to the left of the headlines, you can drag them around and rearrange them.

Plus, you can add and remove headings buy clicking the + and – buttons. Meaning that you now also can add your own headings if you have any.

When you’re done, click Generate Article and Writesonic will create an article for you (including a royalty free post image).

For my backpacking article, the AI generated 1.575 words (8666 character) long article. And even as a novice backpacker myself, this article looks pretty good.

And all we’ve done is fill in some fields with information, taking us a total time of 12 minutes.

Pro tip: If you don’t like the first draft, you can generate more with different tones and CTAs.

Step #7: Edit the article

Okay, so your article draft is officially done.

Now it’s time to finalize it by adding your own touch to it, fact check things, and SEO optimize it.

Luckily for you, this can all be done inside Writesonic.

In fact there’s a button at the top of your newly generated article that says Edit this article with our Google Docs like Sonic Editor.

Click on it and the entire draft will be imported into the Sonic Editor.

Here you can do a bunch of things, so I’ll break it down by the navigation bar at the top of the Sonic Editor.

Focus mode: Here you can work with your article with the help of some AI tools. To start you have the General tab to the right, by highlighting a section of your text, the AI can continue writing it. Up to 1K words can be written at once with varying levels of creativity. You can also highlight text and rephrase, expand, or shorten it.

Sonic Mode: This give you access to the full power of their AI writing features. To edit and expand your article further you can the paragraph writer V2, content rephrase, answers, pros and cons, ChatSonic and much, much more.

SurferSEO mode: If you’re currently using Surfer to SEO optimize your articles, you can integrate it into Writesonic. Now you have the full power of Surfer inside Writesonic, so you don’t have to skip between them when you edit.

Pro tip: If you don’t have Surfer, you can always SEO optimize your articles when they’re uploaded to WordPress. Yoast SEO is a good tool in that case.

Step #8: Publish

Your article is edited, optimized and personalized, now it’s time to publish it to your site.

This is also super easy and can in fact be done with one click…most of the time.

Okay, you have to be using WordPress for it to work, but millions of websites are using that so I almost expect you to do the same.

Anyway, to export your article into WordPress, click the little upload icon at the top right corner. Then select the WordPress alternatives at the bottom of the menu (it works for both .com and .org).

As you also can see, there are other alternatives for sharing and downloading as well. You can use:

• Public link.
• Microsoft Word
• PDF
• HTML

That’s it, you’ve successfully written an article using the power of AI, and it only took a fraction of the time of doing everything manually.

As you can see, it isn’t that hard to use AI when you want to write articles. In fact I believe that you’ll get the hang of the process after the first few articles.

How to rank AI-written articles

AI-generated articles have the potential to be engaging and accurate, but it can be difficult to know how to rank such content.

To ensure your AI-written articles are of top quality and receive the best ranking, understanding the seven methods of assessing and ranking AI-generated articles is essential.

Brainstorming ideas for topical domination

An AI writing tool is a fantastic asset for kick-starting the brainstorming process since it can understand your objectives and generate suggestions that suites your needs.

This is especially helpful when you’re having difficulties coming up with new ideas on your own. Rather than staring at a blank screen for hours, the AI writer is offering you a way to get your creative juices flowing again.

Today’s sophisticated AI writing software has features that can help you find new and exciting topics in minutes.

Accurate, clear and relevant

The first and most important criterion for ranking your AI-written articles is accuracy. Your content should be free of errors and should reflect opinions and facts accurately.

Plus, your articles should be comprehensive, meaning that they should cover all relevant facts and perspectives. Accuracy is essential for ensuring that the content is trustworthy and reliable.

Additionally, your articles should be clear, well-written, easy to understand and logically structured with headings. This will help readers quickly understand the content and appreciate its relevance.

Moreover, every article you publish should be relevant and up-to-date. Meaning that you’re taking into account current events and popular topics to ensure that your readers find your articles useful.

Writing engaging content

One of the most popular techniques people use when it comes to AI writing is to use a content generator to create articles that will capture and maintain the attention of the reader.

How do you do that?

Well, by ensuring that your articles contain relevant images, videos, and other visuals to capture the reader’s attention.

Your articles should be written in an engaging style, with the use of descriptive language, appropriate humor, thought-provoking questions and interesting anecdotes.

Doing all of this will ensure that your readers stay interested in your articles and come back for more in the future.

Analyze your competition

Competition is inevitable unless you figure out something that no one has done before. But that’s not so easy to do.

Therefore, when starting a business, competitive analysis is a huge part of your overall SEO strategy.

It doesn’t matter if you’re making a blog post outline based on titles that your rivals are showing up for or dissecting the most often-used words and expressions in a competitor’s content, understanding what you’re up against is essential.

Tools like SpyFu and Ahrefs can help you analyze your competition. They can even show you your rival’s most valuable keywords, best-ranking posts, and backlinks.

Optimizing images for SEO

Many people do not consider optimizing images for SEO when creating content.

Nevertheless, adding keyword-rich alt text to your blog post images can make it rank higher in search engine results.

With AI-generated content, you can make sure that photos are accurately labeled and named, thus making them visible in Google image searches.

Writing SEO-optimized headlines

Writing compelling and SEO-optimized headlines is much easier with the help of an AI writing tool.

It can be a great way to set off on the right foot and make sure your article topic is captured in an attractive way.

If you get the SEO optimization right, your headline can be more noticeable in search results and encourage clicks.

An nice tool you can to find headlines that other people rank for is to use the Chrome extension called Detailed.

With this tool you can check out the articles ranking on the first page and scan their article for headlines.

Just click on the article in Google, and once on the page, activate the plugin and it will show you a bunch of useful information about the article.

If you do this for the top five ranked articles, you’ll have a pretty good idea of what headlines you need to include in your article to make it a “super article”.

Title and meta descriptions

Making sure your blog post stands out when it shows up in Google SERPs is all about the SEO title and meta description.

Coming up with one title and one meta description is usually not that hard.

However, when you start experimenting for maximum clickthrough rate, it’s a whole other question.

Now you need to come up with 10 titles and 20 meta descriptions (for each article!), and that’s not super easy.

Hence why it’s worth considering investing in AI writing software. Now you can generate an infinite amount of titles and meta descriptions with just a few clicks.

After all, it’d be a shame to produce amazing content that nobody bothers to check out.

Focus on the right keywords

Incorporating the proper keywords in your content is absolutely essential if you want to make it successful.

I have a guide on how to do keyword research with AI here.

Whether you are writing lengthy articles or shorter blog posts, adding the correct keywords will help search engines find and rank your content.

You can also take advantage of keyword rank tracking software to stay informed about the keywords which are ranking.

How AI can help you write better articles

There are many benefits to using AI when writing your next article.

Saves time and boosts efficiency

The main benefit of using an AI writer is that it can save you time.

An AI writing software can generate articles in minutes. Meaning that you can create more high-quality, original content faster and more efficiently.

The added bonus of AI writers is that the days of starting into a blank screen for hours are now gone.

Now all you need is an idea, and the AI will help you turn it into a reality in no time.

Did I mention that the time you save can be used on other things. like brewing more coffee or scaling your business?

Level up your content

An AI writing software can in fact help you create better articles.

The algorithms AI use are designed to understand human language and all of its nuances. Thanks to these advanced algorithms, all you have to do is to explain what you want it to write…that’s it.

A few prompts from you and the AI can create content that is coherent, human-sounding, engaging and oftentimes incredibly well-written.

The only thing AI can struggle with at the moment is accuracy. So always fact-check the content generated.

But new content isn’t everything, you might also have old articles in need of a boost. No problem, you can also use AI writers to enhance your existing content, making it more engaging and relevant to the reader.

SEO optimized articles

AI can also help you write articles that are optimized for SEO (search engine optimization).

A good AI writing software considers SEO aspects when generating content for you. Meaning that it can generate articles that are optimized for search engine algorithms.

So the articles you create has the best chance possible to rank higher in search engine results.

This can help you create content that is much more likely to be read and shared. Helping you reach a wider audience and increase your website’s visibility.

Additionally, with the launch of chat software and features (like ChatGPT and ChatSonic), AI can now help you identify key phrases and topics that you should focus on in your content to optimize it for SEO.

All you’ve got to do is ask it.

So now you have a helping hand when you’re trying to identify keywords and phrases that are relevant to the user’s interests and searches.

Consistency

Finally, elevating your writing with AI can help you create a more consistent content marketing strategy. Something that, in today’s day and age, is critical if you want to rank high and have good exposure.

Also, by using good AI writing software, you can ensure that all of your content follows the same tone and style, plus is grammar correct. Which is a massive help if you’re writing a language that isn’t native to you.

AI writing tips and tricks

There are a few tips and tricks you can use to get the most out of your AI when you write articles or any other content.

1: Create a well-defined template.

Before you write anything, you should always start with creating a well-defined template.

This template should include key phrases, topics, and styles that you want your content to focus on.

Having a template that you always can refer to will make the AI writing process much easier.

2: Use the right tools.

I always recommend that you should experiment with different types of AI writing software to find your perfect match.

Writesonic for example is a great option if you want to create high-quality content in minutes. And its versatility has made it my go-to AI writing software.

But I encourage you to do your own research.

Because, when you find an AI writing tool that is perfect for your needs, you can generate content quickly and efficiently.

3: Set the tone from the start.

When you write, know what tone you want to write with. Should it be funny, professional, formal, you get the point…

For example, I always try to mix some humor into my content, no matter what type of content it is. Why? Because I don’t want to bore you to death.

Therefore my goal is always to make engaging, educational and witty content.

What’s the benefit of this…?

Setting up the proper tone of the AI will make your articles engaging and appealing to your audience.

Plus, keeping the same tone throughout every article you publish will create a feeling of familiarity for the reader.

4: Always edit and fact-check.

One of the most important things you need to do when writing with AI is to edit the content that is generated.

Even the best AI writing software will generate content that needs to be edited for accuracy and clarity.

Speaking of accuracy, if you intend to write fact-based articles using AI. Whatever you do, never publish anything before you doublecheck the facts it included.

It’s commonly known that AI at times will struggle to get the facts right in an article. So whenever there are facts involved, double-check them.

Conclusion

Thanks to ‘How To Use AI To Write Articles: The Beginner’s Guide’ you don’t need to spend hours reading blog posts and watching videos for information on how to write articles using AI.

You have everything you need to get started all in one place.

And as you saw in this guide, using AI to write articles doesn’t have to be super difficult. In fact, most people can start using this technology right away.

Since most AI writing software are using simple step-by-step processes, it becomes very easy to come up with new content (or cure writer’s block).

This means that all you really need is some basic keyboard knowledge and a plan. With that you can start generating high-quality content that is both human-sounding, coherent and optimized for SEO.

Plus, by using an AI writing assistant you can speed up your writing process up to 10x (yes it’s true). That alone comes with tons of benefits, especially if you’re a solo writer.

Not only will publishing more often bring in more leads and customers. But if you can produce with lightning speed, it becomes easier to reap the rewards of new and aspiring trends.

If you’re looking for a tool to help you write articles in minutes, try Writesonic – it’s the perfect AI writing companion.

Now I’d like to hear from you:

Are you going to try using AI the next time you write an article?

Or have you already incorporated this new technology into your writing process? In that case what made you take the leap?

Either way, let me know by leaving a comment below.