If you own a website, whether it’s a personal blog or an online store, you’ll know fine well just how important content is. Content is how you attract visitors to your website and, perhaps more importantly, how you convince them to stay and return again in the future.
Quality content is the key, and producing such content requires skills, hard work, and dedication. However, recent technological advancements have made it easier than ever to create high-quality content. AI, in particular, has completely changed the way in which website owners and online store owners create content for their platforms. Let’s find out more.
What is AI?
AI, which is short for artificial intelligence, is the term used to describe powerful computer networks as systems. These systems advanced to the point that they can accurately emulate human intelligence; they can respond to prompts, hold conversations, and carry out complex tasks.
AI has taken the world by storm. Just a few years ago, most people thought of AI as something reserved for science fiction, and that it would take decades for a true, functional AI tool to be made readily available.
These doubters have been proved wrong. AI has advanced at an exceptional rate, and we’re now seeing AI systems used across a vast range of industries, including healthcare, marketing and AI in education.
What does this mean for you as the owner of a website? Creating content can be time-consuming and laborious, and if you have no previous experience, you’ll find that creating effective, engaging content is incredibly difficult. By harnessing the power of AI, you can generate high-quality content at any time, at the mere click of a button. Read on to learn more.
Website Building
A lot goes into creating and adding content to a website. You need to have an effective landing page, a compelling story about you as a business, your goals, your values, and you also need accurate and engaging product descriptions to everything you are selling. One of the most impressive things that AI can do is create a website entirely based on user responses to simple questions – allowing you to do so without any coding skills or extensive technical knowledge.
Even for business owners who want to create their own website, AI’s ability to generate product descriptions will dramatically cut down the time, effort and expenses. It will also bolster your marketing strategy – AI can use historical data and performance to optimise your content specifically for your audience. If you use your website as an online store where you sell products, you won’t need us to tell you just how tough it can be to turn website visitors into paying customers.
When a customer visits your platform and checks out a product, they’re going to immediately read the description to learn about what the product is and what it does. This is a key marketing opportunity; carefully constructed and effective product descriptions can help motivate a customer to move ahead with a purchase.
By using AI language tools, you can generate product descriptions for your inventory instantly. Simply tell the AI what your product is, and it will return to you with a professional, well-composed description that you can use on your website. If your product has a unique feature or function, you can include this in the AI prompt and it will incorporate this information into the answer it gives you.
Blog Writing
Let’s say, for example, that you are putting together a sports website. Sports fans are extremely passionate and will want to know everything they can about their favorite team or athlete. In-depth blogs can prove incredibly valuable for sports websites. They will draw in large numbers of fans who are looking for detailed analysis and expert opinion.
However, it can be difficult to find the time to write lengthy blog posts, especially when you consider the level of research and planning that goes into them. This is where AI comes in, AI can generate detailed articles on just about any subject you can imagine.
Today’s AI tools are built on large language models and use neural networks to provide highly detailed text responses to user prompts. They scan the internet for information and can process huge streams of data instantly. Whether you’re looking for a cake recipe or an explanation of quantum physics, modern AI tools can provide you with the information you need.
When it comes to making content for your sports website, you could easily ask an AI system to write an article on the 2006 World Cup Final. Even better, you can carefully curate the angle that you want the AI to go in. Let’s look at ChatGPT as an example. In one scenario, your prompt could be:
Question: Write me an article about the 2006 FIFA World Cup Final.
If you wanted something more specific, your prompt could be:
Question: Write me an article about the 2006 FIFA World Cup Final from an Italian perspective, with the majority of the article looking at build up and reaction.
Although ChaptGPT is still in its early days, it is still able to write a highly detailed, individualised article. What’s More, this technology and others are “machine learning”, meaning the more that it writes, the better it gets, and the more useful it can be for your business.
Image Generation
The internet is a visual medium. If you want people to visit and return to your website, you’re going to need to have images.
In a recent study, it was found that websites with relevant images saw a 94% increase in page views, compared to content that had no images. People are drawn to pictures, colours, and emotions, which makes images necessary if you want to draw in and engage your audience.
AI can be used to produce written content, but it can also be tasked with the production of images and graphics. Much like text-producing AI tools, image-generating platforms will create high-quality images based on user prompts.There are various ways in which you can utilise these tools. You could use them to create images for your blogs and articles or graphic elements for your logo or website headers.
This will ultimately lead to more websites having a distinct personality that accurately reflects their products, messages and values – helping audiences to engage on a deeper level.
The best thing about using AI to create images for your website is that they are totally unique and free from copyright law. This makes using AI a more cost-effective approach when looking to decorate your online platform with images.
Conclusion
There is no question about how far AI could develop in the next decade, let alone the next few decades. But now is a good time to take advantage, especially when you still have an edge over competition. If you’re struggling to create the kind of content your website needs, using AI can be a fantastic decision. As the technology continues to improve, we will only see the use of AI to produce digital content increase.