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Article basics - The Article Wizard
Article basics - The Article Wizard
Updated over 3 months ago

Why use the Article Wizard

The step-by-step article generator is ideal for having full control over the article generating process. Here are 3 key benefits to generating article via

  1. Step-by-step we can optimize for SEO, manage our keywords, titles, outlines and more.

  2. For each step we can analyze top Google results to easily build top quality content with AI.

  3. We can even control fine details for every single section. With custom instructions, talking points and even file & URL research capabilities, we can create any type of fact-based article you can imagine.

Accessing the Article Wizard

The Article Wizard can be used inside any Shopia Document. Let's create a new Document from the dashboard:

Next we can choose the 'Article Wizard' option from the left menu:

We are now on the 1st step of the Article Wizard:

Step 1 - SEO report

The benefits

Creating an SEO report before generating your article has 3 core benefits:

  1. Shopia will automatically find NLP terms, links & more for optimization.

  2. Access additional tools in the next steps that combine high ranking Google data & AI.

  3. Access optimization guidelines and tools once your article is generated.

Creating a report

From the first step of the article writer you can optionally generate an SEO report.

Add a focus keyword (the main search term in Google you would like this article to rank for). Then select the country and language you want to optimize for. Click 'Create SEO Report':

💡 Need keyword ideas? Use Topic Clusters for a data-driven approach to building a content plan. Learn more

Google results will appear, you can edit what competitor articles you want to analyze. The top 10 results will be auto-selected for you. When you are ready click 'Save & Process':

Step 2 - Context - defining your article

In this step we will define the key details and settings for our article.

Let's describe what our article is about. Add your own description or click on 'Suggested Topic' and Shopia will analyze google for an ideal description and add it for you:

Next we define our writing style. We can click 'suggested tone' and Shopia will analyze Google to come up with an ideal writing style:

When you're ready, click 'Continue' to head to the next step.

Step 3 - Keywords

Next we define any keywords we want to use within our article. We can paste in our own keywords or upload them via CSV. Similar to the previous step we can also click 'suggested' and Shopia will add NLP terms found by analyzing the top Google results:

Step 4 - Configuration

💡 We recommend turning on ‘External Linking’ - Shopia can fact check across the internet before writing. Shopia will determine key questions needed to write each section.

💡 We recommend setting model type to 'Quality' - this will not only improve writing quality, but formatting, addition of external links & more. It will however take significantly longer to generate your article.

Advanced controls

You can find further controls under the advanced options, such as meta-data generation and letting Shopia auto-create an outline draft for you:

Step 5 - Title

Here we can add our article title. You can simply click on any of the suggested titles to use it:

Step 6 - Outline

Here we can make any changes to our article outline and talking points. We have our outline on the left and tools on the right to help us build our outline:

We can click on 'Show talking points' in the bottom left:

We can now view and edit each sections talking points and add additional instructions:

We can add more sections to our outlie by clicking on a suggested section on the right:

Alternatively for more ideas, we can click on the 'SEO' tab. Here we can add sections from competitor outlines or add FAQ sections using Reddit, Quora or AI suggestions:

When you're happy with your outline click 'Generate Article' and Shopia will begin writing your first draft.

Your first draft

We can now read through our first draft as it generates:

Managing your article

From the previewer we have a number of options available on the right:

  • Share - Copy/Download your document or grant access to other people.

  • Publish - Send your article to your website/other apps

  • Content manager - Organize your content, assign team members, scheduling & more.

  • SEO - Optimize your content

  • Translate - Create different versions in various languages using AI

  • Repurpose - Create supporting content for your article

Creating another draft

If you want to regenerate your article we can create a new draft. Click the refresh button here on the top-right when previewing your draft:

Your new draft will begin generating:

Generating and optimizing your article

Once you’re ready click ‘GENERATE ARTICLE’. It will take a moment to return the first section to the document text editor. You can then use multiple tools to continue editing and optimizing your article:

You can continue to use the SEO report tools from the ‘SEO’ tab. Here you can find optimization recommendations plus AI text generation & research tools using the analyzed Google results:

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