Many websites are sitting on 100s blog posts with low traffic.

But how do you get more from existing content?

Here’s my 25-step checklist: 1. Which pages and keywords do you need to optimise?

- Which pages are declining in performance?
- Which keywords are nearly ranking (positions 3-20)?

3 years ago, I helped a friend earn a full-time income through blogging.

Here's what we did (step-by-step): 1. Choosing the niche

Fortunately, this was easy.

He's played an instrument all his life and studied under some of the world’s best.

I built a website glossary in 2 hours.

- 530K total traffic in 7 months
- 80K/mo current traffic
- $3.09 per article

The easiest SEO project I’ve ever done.

Here's how I did it: Firstly, why create a glossary?

1. You can rank for industry keywords to improve topical authority and EEAT.

2. You can attract natural backlinks and boost pages with internal linking.

8.5B Google searches are made daily.

But 99% of websites don’t get traffic, leads or sales from these searches.

Want to change that?

Use my 5-step SEO strategy: I've helped websites generate millions in traffic and revenue from Google.

But when I first started doing SEO, I only prioritised traffic...

Which results in cool graphs like this:

I have a friend who got 160,000 followers in 4 months.

So I asked him, "How are you growing so quickly?"

He responded with: "I use pre-validated ideas and concepts with higher-quality writing and visuals to rapidly grow my following."

He then broke it down for me:

(But on the basis that I kept him anonymous)

I pulled off an SEO speedrun that ranked a brand-new site in 24 hours.

- I bought a new domain
- I published 1,000 articles
- I got SEO traffic hours later

A world record? Let’s see...

Here’s how it played out: 6 months ago, I searched for SEO world records to break...

Turns out there aren’t any:

This is all AI content.

In just 5 months, the site has:

- 1.12M SEO traffic
- 33K conversions

Here’s how I did it: Before you click away, here’s the GA4 data to prove these results:

(The craziest part is that I executed this project within a day using ...) Byword.ai

There are way too many misconceptions about using AI in SEO.

I can’t individually respond to the 1,000s of comments I receive about this.

But here are my thoughts on common beliefs: First, let's look at this SEO process:

1. A person finds a competitor's article by visiting their site or using an SEO tool like Ahrefs.

2. They hire another person to write a competing article on the exact same topic.

Is this wrong?

“AI content doesn’t convert customers...”

People say this a lot. So I ask if they've tried:

1. Product-led AI content
2. AI-generated CTAs
3. Content upgrades
4. Low-funnel topics
5. Landing pages

The answer is always "no".

So here are 5 ways I get conversions using AI: 1. Product-led

- Build a free product relevant to the core (paid) product
- Generate leads and funnel users into the paid product
- Use AI content to create 100s of pages targeting keywords relevant to the free product

Here’s an example: 1,953 customers in 3.5 months.

We pulled off an SEO heist that stole 3.6M total traffic from a competitor.

We got 489,509 traffic in October alone.

Here's how we did it: We pulled off an SEO heist using AI.

1. Exported a competitor’s sitemap
2. Turned their list of URLs into article titles
3. Created 1,800 articles from those titles at scale using AI

18 months later, we have stolen:

- 3.6M total traffic
- 490K monthly traffic

Steal my 17 proven blog title templates:

They've generated 1,000,000s in traffic and revenue for clients and my own businesses.

(Examples included) 1. Product list

X Best {Product Category} in 2023

Example: 10 Best Email Marketing Platforms in 2023

2. Versus

{Competitor} vs {Your Product}: Which is Best for You?

Example: Mailchimp vs ConvertKit: Which is Best for You?

I built a glossary that now gets 70K/mo SEO traffic.

The best part?

It took me minutes to generate with AI (instead of months).

And it didn’t cost much (compared to $10,000s).

Here’s how you can do it too: Why create a glossary with AI?

1. Rank for industry keywords to improve topical authority
2. Attract natural backlinks and boost pages with internal linking
3. Other glossaries are typically thin in content and easy to outrank...

7 ways I’m using AI to scale SEO: 1. Ideas Lists

Provide lists of ideas across a scalable topic in your industry.

Example: Baby Name Ideas

- Boy names
- Irish boy names
- Unique boy names
- Boy names that start with A

Total potential (US only):

- 580K keywords
- 8M/mo searches

It took me 7 years and 1,000,000s in organic traffic to develop my current SEO playbook.

But I’ll give it to you right now, for free.

Here’s my 90-day SEO playbook: Introducing The Content Growth Program:

- High traffic
- High conversions
- Highly economical
- Not overcomplicated

7 best SEO examples: 1. Nomad List Programmatic SEO

Nomad List is an online community built by @levelsio that provides resources for digital nomads and remote workers.

SEO has changed.

It's crucial to not get left behind.

Here's old SEO vs new SEO: Old SEO: I'll only use keyword tools to find data and opportunities.

New SEO: I'll talk to my customers and create content around their pain points.

I published 346 AI articles.

3 months later they've generated 123K SEO traffic and 641 conversions.

The best part?

This project is still incredibly early. Performance is currently growing by 50% week-on-week.

Here's how I did it: 1. The “Ideas” keyword framework

All 346 AI-generated pages came from one scalable keyword framework: {Thing} Ideas.

For example:

- Gift Ideas
- Title Ideas
- Name Ideas

The topic was highly relevant to their industry and product...

We finally hit 1 million monthly SEO traffic using 100% AI-generated content.

- 7K total pages generated
- 1.07M current monthly sessions
- 9.2M total sessions since day 1
- 41K first-page ranking keywords
- New links from 1,648 domains

Here's how: This is the World’s largest AI SEO case study.

But don't just take my word for it:

Google is penalising AI content.

Here’s why: Yes, that is a real graph of an AI site...

- 330K/mo organic traffic
- Down to 216/mo (basically 0)
- From 69,056 total AI articles

Looking back even further, their peak was 607,200/mo traffic.

Then they were hit by the August 2022 Helpful Content Update:

After auditing 1,000s of websites for SEO:

- Multi-billion-dollar brands
- Popular SaaS companies
- Top ecommerce stores
- Large affiliate sites

And everything in between...

Here are the 12 most common issues found: This is one of the most important SEO posts you'll read this month (or even this year).

For that reason, I've called in @ViperChill.

- Started doing SEO 16 years ago
- Audited 1,000+ websites on video
- Creator of the SEO Blueprint course
- Founder of the Detailed SEO Extension

Update: 0 to 820K/mo SEO traffic with AI content.

- Traffic after 24 hours
- 300K/mo after 6 months
- 750K/mo after 12 months
- 820K/mo after 16 months
- 10K top 3 keywords in Google

Here's not only how we did it 16 months ago...

But how to do it even better: Quick overview:

We ran a large-scale SEO campaign using only AI-generated content.

Website: B2B SaaS company
Industry: Finance

AI language model:

- Started on GPT-3
- Moved to GPT-3.5
- Now on GPT-4

AI tool used: Byword.ai