Sorry for the click-baiting nature of the title, but I do find it genuinely amazing. For a while I'd given up on the internet guru gospel of build it and they will come. But the AI thing has really changed things. Here is a fascinating workflow I've finally stumbled upon myself (I'm sure others have realized this already) using Google Gemini, GoDaddy, Cavna, and Facebook.

First things first, there probably should be some genuine interest in what you're blogging about. For me, that's travel and culture. I started a blog on GoDaddy for $18 per month, not bad, not bad. Simple layout, not a lot of backend UX experience needed. Check.

Next I go to Google Gemini. I try to create content webs, but let's get into that later. I recommend "news (hi)jacking" popular, trending, or seasonal topics. Some people like to use Google Trends for this. But I find that seasonals are a bit easier to sustain through dozens or hundreds of posts. For instance, last month it was (drumroll please) October, so I with Halloween coming up, I did a whole "haunted" series.

Gemini, can you write a listicle about 7 haunted places in San Antonio? Cleveland? Los Angeles? New York? You get the idea. I did all major metro areas in the US, and then moved on to states. Back to that content "web" idea. With listicles about states, you can insert hyperlinks to specific cities within the article. This internal linking sends out strong pheromones to Google, or so they say.

I like to stick to 7 places, since that's a good attention-holding number. Beyond that, too much. They say odd numbers get more clicks, so whatever. Each paragraph shouldn't be more than 3-5 sentences. These are light articles. Punctuating them with pics is better, but that's extra work.

Now on to the image. This is SUPER important. Any old visual will NOT DO. They need to be compelling. For this, I used Canva. Think of those stupid YouTube videos you keep clicking on. Basic formula: background picture, BIG TEXT, and some dude or woman with an expression of shock and surprise. IS CLEVELAND HAUNTED? in glowing red letters, with a dark picture of the city behind a screaming woman, and a creepy ass clown poking his head in from the edge of the frame. Damn, I want to click on that.

Next I post the article on Facebook. I hate Facebook and mainly use it to post inflammatory posts that I know will upset my friends on there. But that aside, I post the blog here because FB is super great at pushing content to users through hashtags. You can use 30 hashtags, so use them all. #halloween, #halloweennails, #halloweencostume, #pumpkinspice, #october, are some of the seasonal tags I use to draw in in white women (please, I'm only partially joking), and then I use "evergreen" tags like #travel as well. Then there are local tags like the state and city or perhaps sports team. Some offbeat or cultural tags might include #foodie, which I strangely found to be "fire" as the kids say.

So to summarize, you've got (1) themed/seasonal (2) evergreen and (3) local hashtags to push your content out. If you're using a builder like GoDaddy, FB shows your blog image as part of the post, which is where the Money is AT. This is why you need to make the blog image super click-baity.

And that's really all there is to it. I firmly believe if you sat there and did this all day, you could get dozens or hundreds of people to your blog page PER DAY. I know this because whereas before I was getting like maybe 10 clicks per month, I'm now getting between 10-30 per day from just 3-5 posts. If I were to rinse and repeat, which I don't have time to do, I'm sure I could get 10,000 viewers per month, easily.

You'll see similar workflows advertised by self-proclaimed gurus for youtube (e.g. go to Google Trends, generate a video with invidio.ai, make a cool image, upload, etc.). There are some "missing pieces" they'll charge you $10K for, but I truly believe one of them is one they don't want to advertise, which is just volume.

Thanks for reading, if you're trying to monetize a site or have a legit business you're trying to get traffic to, I firmly believe this AI-assisted workflow can help. Before AI, this would have taken more manpower hours than most people could afford or put into it.