Welcome to Part I of Edition No. 53 of my weekly newsletter, providing practical analysis in the world of digital content strategy.
Contents
Tip: Get Your Content on Google Sooner
Analysis: 3 ChatGPT Prompts for Content Creators
Tip: Get Your Content on Google Sooner
When you publish something, it’s not going to instantly show up on Google search results.
There is, however, a way to speed up the process.
Go to your Google Search Console account
Paste the recently published URL into the bar at the top with the magnifying glass and hit enter
Click “Request Indexing”
You should now see something like this pop up (it will take around a minute)
You’re all set!
You can also do this for not-new content that you notice isn’t indexed on Google.
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Analysis: 3 ChatGPT Prompts for Content Creators
ChatGPT is all the rage, and it’s no secret that I’m a fan of supplementing content strategies with AI tools to work more efficiently. (Always with a heavy human touch on the backend before publishing.)
You have probably stumbled upon countless tweets and LinkedIn posts giving you prompt ideas.
While I don’t claim to be the first to think of any of these, I do want to help you cut through the noise a bit and focus on three ChatGPT prompts that I find particularly useful.
The 3 Prompts
Ask for Counterarguments
Put Yourself in Your Reader’s Shoes
Get Headline Ideas
1) Ask for Counterarguments
You’re all done with your blog or article and ready to hand it off to an editor, or perhaps even hit publish.
You’re only one person, though, so perhaps you haven’t considered the other side of the topic you’re covering.
Use this prompt:
I wrote the following article about [topic]. I want you to poke holes in this and give me five counterarguments that I should address. Here is the post:
[paste full text of post]
To provide a practical example, I chose this analysis piece on the homepage of the NY Times. (This was completely random, so please don’t feel attacked or validated by the political nature.)
Here’s the prompt I gave ChatGPT:
I wrote the following article* about how Democrats remain optimistic about Joe Biden getting reelected as president despite the headwinds he faces. I want you to poke holes in this and give me five counterarguments that I should address. Here is the post:
[Plus the full text of the article]
*Clearly I didn’t write the article, this is just an example
Here was the response:
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