chapter nine
9 AI-powered blogs: Interacting with your audience
This chapter covers
- Defining the term blog
- AI tells you how and what to write in your blog
- Asking AI to generate effective blog message titles
- Creating a custom GPT to respond to audience blog messages
- Modifying your custom GPT
- Providing efficient blog navigation with categories
- Hiding date stamps
- Automating incoming message vetting
- Promoting your blog
- Understanding GPT’s custom instructions and memory feature
- Creating a visitor email database
- Testing the five most popular AI systems
In spite of occasional predictions of doom, blogging is only slightly less popular than it was in its heyday 20 years ago. True, the rise of social media like YouTube and Facebook is serious competition, but there’s still a big audience for blogs. And unlike some other media, blogs continue to score high as a trusted source of information.
Running a blog can be time-consuming because blogs that allow audience participation require that you vet (check for appropriateness and quality) every message that comes in.
Plus, you have to post replies. Of course, you can set up a one-way blog that only features messages from you. But most visitors appreciate the ability to interact with a site.