Reply To: Official Challenge 2: *Grow an EXISTING Site with AI Generated Content*

The answer to your question is somewhat complicated, but I’ll try to explain my tools/process here:

Last year, I had an active subscription to Article Forge, which was unlimited but throttled. I used that tool, at the time, to generate 36,000 articles on a wide variety of topics over the period of a year. I developed some automation using “Power Automate” by Microsoft. I wasn’t happy with the H2 / Section Titles that Article Forge generated, so I wrote my own software using Visual Basic.NET that would open each of these HTML5 files, read the H2 tags, and then let me change them. I later modified this code to use Open AI’s Chat GPT to suggest new titles for each section. It then saved these modified files as HTML files with the new H2 / section tags. I then wrote more software that would take and upload these articles, 25 at a time, to the WordPress website, in draft status. As it did this, it assigned random images that I had uploaded at the time from Pexels using their API.

While all of these articles are “ok”, I wouldn’t classify them as great. I have since modified that software to also perform rewrites for me. Today, I’ll be publishing 10 rewrites to the site. My software takes the existing article that it retrieves using the WordPress API, submits each section and title to the Chat GPT API, and asks it to do a rewrite. This rewrite tool has the option to either create new images using DALL-E or randomly select from existing images that are in the site’s Media repository. So, the rewrite tool does the complete rewrite of the article in about a minute for about $0.05 US. If it generates new images for the article, each image costs $0.04 US based on the current costs for the API. So, rewrites generally cost me between $0.05 and $1.00 US, and I can drip out 5 to 10 per day if I have time. I have also modified my software to generate fresh articles from scratch by just typing in an Article Title. I then have Chat GPT suggest sections and titles and then the rest of the article. These new articles have the same cost and take between 1 minute and 15 minutes, depending on whether I have used existing images or new images. Here again, I’ll publish between 2 and 5 articles per day. I am actively using this self-created toolset now actively on 16 sites, and I’m publishing 30 to 50 articles per day, depending on my personal schedule. I do this, consuming about 2 hours of my time per day. I have limited it to this because of my problems with heart failure. While I’ve never focused on organic search until this contest, I’ve focused more on process and tools because I knew my niche selection wasn’t the best for contests. My niches were selected based on the personal interests of my family as opposed to attempting to pick winning niches. The closest commercial tool that I can find that produces similar results is a WordPress Plugin called AI Power. I will say that I’m happy with my progress and learning experience in the contest because I believe I have developed tools and a process that I can apply to any niche, which I will leverage in the future, should my health permit.

I hope this helps you understand what I’ve done. Please let me know if you have any other questions.