Ready to make money and grow your business even while you sleep? Today, I’m going to show you how you can set up your own AI automated blogging system. What this system will do is that it will take the latest news article in your niche, turn it into a blog post, and then automatically post it onto your blog.
I know it’s absolutely incredible. Only a couple of years ago, I had to do this whole process manually. I had to hire a writer, wait for them to finish the article, and then I could post it onto my blog. This whole process used to cost me hundreds of dollars per article and would take weeks to complete. Now, AI can do it for pennies on the dollar, and the process is almost instantaneous. I’m going to show you how to set everything up today.
The best part? You can make up to $30,000 with this AI automation or $576 per month. So make sure you stick around until the end because I’m going to show you four strategies that you can use to monetize your blog.
Also, if you’re new here, hi! My name is Helena. I am an AI optimization expert, and I would really appreciate it if you got any value out of today’s video to please like and subscribe. With that being said, let’s dive in!
Setting Up Your AI Automated Blogging System
The first thing that we’re going to do is go onto Google News and put in the topic that we want to write our blog post on. So if I want to start a new blog on artificial intelligence, I’m going to put “artificial intelligence” here in the search bar, and then what I’m going to do is copy this URL right over here.
Just to backtrack here, I went to news.google.com. After I got my news article here, the next thing I want to do is create an RSS feed. In order to create my RSS feed, I’m going to go to a website called RSSA. Once you register for a free account, you’ll be taken to a dashboard that looks like this, and you want to create a new feed. I’m just going to put in the URL that we just copied from Google News and then press generate. After a couple of seconds, we will have our RSS feed.
Once our feed has been created, I’m going to press save feed and copy this URL right over here. The next thing that I’m going to do is go into make.com. Make.com is an RPA or robotic processing automation tool that allows us to create these automations, and it is completely no-code. You can see visually which module comes first, which is the second step, and which is the third step, all in a visual way.
Once we log in to make.com and start a new scenario, we’ll see something like this. Basically, this is a blank canvas that will actually allow us to put in all our modules so we can see what is the first step of the automation, then what’s the second step, the third step, etc. The first thing that needs to happen is we get a new news article that comes out through that RSS feed. So now, actually, this tells us the trigger here should be RSS. When we select RSS, we want to watch for new RSS articles that come out. We’re going to select this, and then it’s going to prompt us to enter in the RSS URL. I’m going to put in the URL that was just generated, and because we want to write one article at a time, I’m going to leave this at one and then press OK. From here, we can select what point in time we want the articles to start writing. If we want new articles from now on, we’ll just leave it at the default setting.
Generating the Article Title
After we have set up our trigger, the next step is we need a title for our article. We’re going to press the add button here and search for OpenAI. Just know that you can use things like CLA, Perplexity, or any large language model. I’m going to select OpenAI and then select “Create a completion” here. For my model, I’m going to select GPT-4.0 because GPT-4.0 is the only model currently from OpenAI that can actually access the web and has the latest information.
If this is your first time logging into OpenAI, you want to press the add button here, and then you will need to get your API key. In order to get your API key, you want to go to platform.openai.com. From here, in your account, you’ll be able to create a new secret key. Give it a name that will remind you where you put this key. For example, if you’re just putting it into make.com, you can call it something like make.com. Then create this key and make sure you copy it because you only get to view this key once. Then go back to make.com, paste it in right here, and press save.
A question I get asked very often is how much does OpenAI charge for their API usage. Well, it totally depends on how much you use it and which model you’re using. OpenAI is pretty transparent about their pricing. If you go to openai.com/pricing and scroll down, you’ll be able to see how much these various models cost. The model that we’re going to be using today is GPT-4.0. As we can see from the pricing here, it’s $5 for 1 million tokens of input and $15 for 1 million tokens of output.
Now that we have our OpenAI connected, we’re going to select our model here and, of course, select GPT-4.0. Then I’m going to press on “Add a message.” After I do so, for the role, I’m going to select “user,” and in the message content, this is where I’m going to put in my prompt. Here is the prompt that I have written: “You are a blog writer, and your job is to turn the following news article into a unique SEO-optimized blog post. Here is the title of the article.” Then I basically just entered the variable title from the RSS feed module. The reason I want to do this is because when a new article comes in, I want the new title to be inserted. This is a dynamic variable here, and I did the same for the URL. I told GPT-4.0, “Here is the URL that you can go and read.” The parameters I gave it were maximum 10 words per sentence, flow, and do not put quotes around the title. Then I just pressed OK down here at the bottom.
Generating the Feature Image
Now the next thing we want to do is generate an image, a feature image that can go along on our blog. I’m going to press the add button here again, select OpenAI, and go to “Create a completion” again. It’s the same exact process. For the model, I’m going to select GPT-4.0, add a message, select the role as “user,” and in the message content, I’m going to put in my prompt. I tell it to please return a DALL-E 3 image prompt to generate this image. After I’ve done so, again, I had to give it the maximum tokens, and then press OK. I’m going to rename this and call it “Image Generation Prompt.” After I have my prompt ready for this image, the next thing I’m going to do is actually generate that image.
I’m going to press the add button here again, select OpenAI, and this time I’m going to scroll down until I find “Generate an image” right here. I’m going to select DALL-E 3 because that’s the latest model for image generation, and then I’m going to insert the prompt that we have just generated. I’m going to click on the prompt field, locate the “Image Generation Prompt” module that we just did (this is why renaming it will make it easier for you to find things in later steps), and then I’m going to expand on choices, expand on message, and select content here. What this is going to do is actually paste in the prompt that was just generated.
Writing the Blog Post
Now we’re ready to actually write our blog post. It’s the same process again. I’m going to press the add button, select OpenAI, and select “Create a chat completion.” For the model, I’m going to do GPT-4.0 again. The role will be “user,” and then the prompt is going to be as follows: “Please generate an article on this topic.” I give it the URL so GPT-4.0 can take a look at the article. “Here is the title of the article.” Then I insert the title that was generated from the blog title module. Following that, I gave it some additional instructions. You can modify the prompt as you see fit; the more specific you get, the better result you will get. For the maximum token here, I’m going to put 496, which is the maximum number of tokens that is available right now. After I finished this module, I’m going to press OK again.
Posting to Your WordPress Blog
The next step is to actually post it onto my WordPress blog. If you’re new to WordPress and don’t have a WordPress blog, I’m going to quickly show you how you can start with your own WordPress blog. You will need some sort of hosting service to host your domain and your website. The one that I use is siteground.com. After you log in, you’ll be able to purchase a domain here, and I have already done so. To purchase a domain, go to Marketplace, go over to Domains, type in your domain here, and if this domain is available, then you can select to add and then just put in your credit card number and you’ll be able to purchase that.
After you have purchased your domain, you will go over to Websites and then select the website where you want to install your WordPress blog. Then hover over and go over to Site Tools. After you go over to Site Tools, you’ll be taken to this dashboard, and you want to select WordPress from the left-hand side menu and then select Install and Manage. Oh, and by the way, if you use any other hosting provider, the process is pretty much identical; just the layout may be slightly different. After you have done so, select to install WordPress here, put in your domain, and then put in a username, a password, and an email for signing in. Then press install, and then you’ll be all set to go.
I have already done so, and I’ll show you what it looks like. You want to go down to Plugins and then select Add New. From here, you want to search for the make plugin. Make hasn’t changed the name of their plugin yet, so make used to be called Integromat, and that’s what you need to search for in the search bar right here to find the make connector. After you search for “make the Integromat connector,” you’ll see this particular plugin. Because I already have mine installed, it says active, but if it’s your first time installing it, make sure you press on install and then press activate. Then you’ll see this make tab right here on the side.
Once you press here, you’ll be given your API key, and this is the API key that we actually need to copy over into make in order for make to be able to automatically post onto your blog. So we’re going to go back into make now and add a new module. This time we want it to post onto our WordPress site. I’m going to search for WordPress right here, click on WordPress, and because we want to create a new post, this is the action that we wanted to take. If this is your first time connecting to WordPress, you’re going to go up here at the top, press add, and then simply put in the API key that you just copied, then put in your domain of your WordPress site right here, followed by wp-json. You just need to add this little part to the end of the domain, which is again wp-json. If you don’t add that, it’s not going to work.
From here, just fill out the details that you want to be posted onto your blog. For the title, I’m going to click on the title, scroll down to find the blog title module that we have just created, and then expand on choices, expand on message, and click on the content, which is the output of the blog module that will return the title to me. The content is all of the content within my blog post, so I’m going to go to the blog content module, do the same thing, expand on choices, expand on message, and then select the content. For the type, I’m going to select that it’s going to be a blog post. There are a couple of other things you can configure. You can add tags, and you can add the author. I’m going to add myself here. After you have filled in everything that you want in your WordPress blog post, just click OK here at the bottom and save. Make sure you always save because make doesn’t do that for you automatically.
Let’s just do a test run to see what we get, and then if everything’s working, let’s add in our image, and we will be done. It’s been about a minute, and our article is done. Here is the article that was just posted onto our WordPress blog. If we look back at the integration that was just set up, we can actually expand on the one little popup bubble here. We can actually read the URL that it just spun into a blog post. Here’s the original article here, and this is the article that OpenAI has written for us in less than a minute. This is absolutely mind-blowing and incredible.
Monetizing Your Blog
Now that you have your AI automated blogging system set up, let’s talk about how to make money with your blog. Here are four strategies that you can use to monetize your blog:
1. CPC or CPM Ads
You can sign up for CPC (cost per click) or CPM (cost per thousand impressions) ads by signing up for Google AdSense. Basically, whenever someone views your blog or clicks on an ad on the sidebar of your blog, Google will actually pay you for those display ads.
2. Monthly Sponsorship
You can sell ads directly to advertisers on your blog. Let’s say we want to make $30,000 a year from our blog. That means we need to sell $2,500 of ads every single month. This could be a lot for one advertiser, but what if you had six? If you had six different advertisers, you only had to charge them about $416 per month, which is a lot more doable.
3. Selling Affiliate Products
Another way to make money from your blog is to sell affiliate products. Two really good sites to find affiliate products to sell are Amazon Affiliates or ClickBank. On Amazon, you can actually sign up to be an affiliate, and after you sign up, you will have your own affiliate link for all of the products that you want to promote. You just need to put that link into your blog post, and whenever someone clicks on that Amazon link and buys the product, you will get a percentage of those sales. You can look at what products may resonate with the audience of your niche. For example, if you’re starting a blog on personal finance, maybe it’s books like “Think and Grow Rich.” If you have a blog on interior design, it could be the new trendiest furniture that everyone wants to get. ClickBank is also a great way to look for affiliate products. ClickBank is generally really good for digital products like courses. If you just don’t want to create your own course about your niche yet, it could be a good idea to test out the waters and see if other people’s courses resonate with your audience before you create your own as well.
4. Creating Your Own Products
The last way that you can monetize your blog is to create your own products like ebooks or courses that you can sell directly to your audience. Another way to monetize this AI blogging system is to write for others. There are many different publications that will actually pay you anywhere from $100 to $300 per article, and this is in various different industries.
