Hamish Davison is a professional content writer and on-site SEO expert with over 6 years of experience. He works as ecommerce manager for 2Menlux in Italy.
Hamish has used his extensive knowledge of SEO to create a workflow that can help you prepare ChatGPT-generated content for optimal performance on Google search engines. This isn't just a matter of asking ChatGPT to produce SEO-friendly articles; instead, Hamish's workflow involves utilizing tools like Google AdWords and scripts to achieve the best possible results.
In this article, Hamish demonstrates how to write an SEO-ranking article for luxury men's clothing using ChatGPT and other industry-standard tools. By reading on, you can gain a hands-on learning experience and elevate your SEO skills to the next level with ChatGPT.
Enter Keyword in Search: “How to dress for men”
He looked for the keywords which are trending to get some quick traffic. He narrowed down his search to the keyword: "How to dress in your 20s mail" for this article.
After copying the keyword, he searched for it on Google. Then, navigate to the "people also asked" section and click on a few of the questions to expand them.
Once he had a few questions open, he copied them and started prepping ChatGPT for writing the article.
Input Prompt: I want to write an article today with a keyword “how to dress in your 20s male” do you understand?
Without disclosing the name of the brand, he tells ChatGPt some unique aspects from the brand. It is to ensure that ChatGPT doesn’t throw generic information about the brand which may not rank as such.
Input Prompt: Our brand does not make clothes themselves, we sell other brands, do you understand?
Thereafter, he preps ChatGPT so that it knows now going to prep chat GPT to make sure that it knows to use bullet points and headings.
INPUT Prompt: I want you to use all normal formatting for a blog post, including headings and bullet points, do you understand?
Thereafter, he prompts ChatGPT to answer the questions on keyword that he had copied from google search results.
Input Prompt: I want you to try to answer these questions in this article:
What should men in their 20s wear?
How should Stylish men dress in the 20s?
How should a 20 year old dress?
What should I wear as a 25 year old man?
What clothes are attractive on a guy?
What is the most masculine outfit?
What makes a man in a suit attractive?
How do you start masculine dressing?
How can I look good in my 20s?
What is the 20 year rule in fashion?
Does dressing your age matter?
How should I dress if I have a belly?
Do you understand?
ChatGPT now understands the context and stores the information. It asks - Please let me know if you have any specific direction or information you world like me to include in the article.
He then shows us a script he has created using ChatGPT earlier. Available here.
This script extracts product-related keywords and their relevant links from the e-commerce store in the following manner:
Step 1: In the google doc, go to extensions and click on Apps Script.
Step 2: Copy and paste the script in the file on Google Apps Script page.
Step 3: Replace the keyword with “Google ad word” and url with: “https://ads.google.com/aw/keywordplanner//”
Step 4: Save and run the script. It’ll ask for permissions, allow the same.
Step 5: It’ll run the script and add a hyperlink to the google doc with the script output. Open the project.
Step 6: On opening the file, you can see that it adds the keywords and their respective URLs from line 17 onwards.
Step 7: You can now copy line 17 onwards and paste it to google sheets as text to columns. Using find and replace and remove text like ‘ addLinks(“ ’ and get the keyword in column along with the link in next column.
Step 8: Now, you have a list of keywords and their respective URLs on e-commerce stores.
These keywords and their URLs can now be linked with the article in ChatGPT.
Input Prompt: I want you to include these keywords in this article:
Pullover
Gray Sweater
Italian Sweater
Italian Coat
Parka Coat
Kiton Jeans
Dark Blue Jeans
Cesare Attolini Shirts
Crewneck Sweater
Italian Leather Jacket
Beaver Fur Coat
Do you understand?
ChatGPT has now stored these keywords to be included in the article.
Input Prompt: Please remember to mention the brands in my keyword list and the questions I added before to the article, do you understand?
Input Prompt: Please give me a blog outline for this article
Interestingly, now the article outline is entirely customized. It includes the questions from google search and keywords from the script output.
Now, you can copy and paste each of the sections and give a prompt ‘write’ to ChatGPT to write the section.
Input Prompt: Write:
I. Introduction
Brief overview of the importance of fashion for men in their 20s
II. What to Wear in Your 20s
General guidelines for dressing in your 20s
Key pieces every man should have in his wardrobe
Tips for building a versatile wardrobe
It’ll now write the article with all the information provided by you related to questions and keywords. Once it stops, give a prompt ‘continue’ to continue writing the article.
Input Prompt: Continue
Now, you have the article with all the relevant keywords you need to link to products on your ecommerce store. In addition, the article includes the top-ranked questions asked on google search.
You could further reduce your workload and write an article with internal links written by ChatGPT. Here’s a workflow you could use.
Input Prompt: Write a blog post. Include as internal links using markdown hyperlink keywords using links as the Ahref. Use keyword rich anchor text. Here are some links to include as markdown internal links in the article:
This prompt will generate an article that can be copied and pasted directly into platforms such as Shopify or WordPress. In case the formatting generated by ChatGPT is incorrect, an HTML Washer might be necessary to fix it.
You could develop glossary pages on your website to add quick content to your website. At the bottom of the page, you can add links to the brands page. If one of the glossary pages starts to rank well, it will give power to the brand pages as well.
To demonstrate, Hamish takes an example of how to do it for Shopify.
Create a table The columns should be, 1. Handle (url slug), 2. Title (write What is a for the title) 3. Body HTML, 4. Title tag for google 5. Meta description. The 2nd column should be written in HTML, for example with p tags
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Accessories
Sometimes referred to as “furnishings” in higher-end menswear circles, this term refers to anything in a tailored outfit that isn’t jacket, trousers, shirt, or shoes. Examples include ties, belts, pocket squares, braces, cufflinks, and the like.
Alteration Hand
A professional specializing in making modifications to existing articles of clothing, rather than creating garments from scratch. See bushelman.
Apron
A term that refers to the wide ends of a tie, both front and back. Ame
rican in origin.
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Now, you can download the Matrixify template for shopify website. And, enter the content generated by ChatGPT in this template. You can then upload this template to Shopify to create new pages quickly.
Hamish has written an article on ‘Italian White Sneaker Brands’ recently. Within 12 hours, the article started ranking on top of google search results - on page 1 of google search results. It has ranked better than many articles which he wrote months back.
When ChatGPT is utilized as a replacement for the intricate work processes employed by traditional methods, it yields significantly improved results. By utilizing prompts to prepare ChatGPT's responses to your questions, you can produce more relevant content and bring a unique perspective to the topic. This approach allows you to create content with greater accuracy in a shorter amount of time.
Read the complete article on using ChatGPT for building internal links and creating glossary pages.
Don’t forget to see Hamish’s work on his website and YouTube channel.
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