Here are my favorite prompts to use as a blogger on tools like ChatGPT.
1. Competitive Analysis Prompt
Use this prompt to research your competitors and to see what you can do better—if anything!
The key is to make your content 10X better than your competitors. Otherwise, there’s no success.
Here’s the prompt:
I’m writing a blog post about XYZ. But the problem is competition. I want to rank #1 on Google for my topic. Can you help me with competitive analysis and point out the shortcomings of the existing content on the internet so that I can do it at least 10x better than those? Search for XYZ-related content. Tell me what’s missing and demonstrate clearly and concisely what I have to do better to rank. Also, be honest. If the topic is too competitive or the ideal post already exists, let me know. Only give me instructions of the topic seems like something with a clear content gap.
2. The Superior Outline Prompt
To rank on Google, your post needs to be the most informative piece of content.
Use this prompt to make sure you cover your topic from top to bottom.
Here’s the prompt:
I’m writing a blog post about [Your Topic Here]. Can you give me the most comprehensive and detailed outline that there is? To create that, ask every single question my audience might have in their minds related to that topic. Leave absolutely no stone unturned. My idea is to write the best post about that topic on the entire internet and I want to cover everything related to this topic. Just make sure to use common sense. Don’t include anything that may not be useful for the readers. Also, avoid repetition and make the talking point subheadings as concise as possible. Keep it consistent. Order the talking points in a logical order that one would expect from a high-quality resource like this.
3. The Feedback Prompt
Here’s a feedback prompt. Once again, to rank on Google, you need to write the best posts. This prompt helps you get there.
Here’s the prompt:
Here’s my blog post about [Your Topic Here]. Can you carefully read it through?
[A link to the post here] OR [Copy-paste the contents here]
Give me a list of improvements to make to the post to make it the best post on the internet. I want it to be readable and “reader-optimized” and that it ranks #1 on Google. The content needs to be helpful and useful and original. No BS SEO growth hacks or tactics like that.
The post should be accessible to all readers and solve the problem for both a busy reader and a non-busy one.
Leave absolutely no stone unturned with the content improvement plan and let me know exactly what I need to do to make it the best post on the internet. Also, for each suggestion, let me know why that’s crucial and what might happen if I don’t make the suggested improvement.
Don’t share technical improvements. Assume that those are taken care by the platform I’m using. Only focus on those that improve the reading experience directly and that makes me stand out from the competition.
Do NOT focus on those age-old SEO improvements. I only want to focus on readers because that’s the state of art in SEO right now.