How to Write Blog Posts Using ChatGPT Canvas ✍🏻

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OpenAI just released a new feature in ChatGPT!

It’s called Canvas.

What is it?

Canvas is basically a text editor that has ChatGPT built-in.

I wanted to quickly share how this can work for writing blog posts.

Short caveat: You need to be a paying user of ChatGPT to access this feature.

1. Head to ChatGPT’s website

2. At the model dropdown button, click on GPT-4o with canvas

3. Give it a prompt to write a blog post

Next, you’ll want to give it a super powerful prompt like this:

4. Explore the Canvas editor

You’ll notice that the editor will popup and take the above look.

On the left, you will have your chat with ChatGPT.

On the right, you now get the Canvas editor, where you can edit text.

Why is this important?

It’s because SEO is changing and 100% AI-generated content may be seen as spam in the eyes of Google.

While it is a multi-faceted feat to rank well on Google, quality content that’s written in line with AI + human imput is recommended.

I use this method with another AI tool called Jasper to help me rank no.1 on many of my blog posts.

5. Make custom AI edits in the Canvas editor

We’ll now make some edits using the Canvas editor.

The first paragraph doesn’t really hook the audience to get them to scroll down.

Highlight the first paragraph by mousing over the top right of it.

After clicking on it, you’ll see a popup.

Then click on Ask ChatGPT.

You’ll be given a text box to prompt ChatGPT with the context of the highlighted portion.

Now prompt it to edit the paragraph, like so:

6. Watch ChatGPT do its magic

You’ll see ChatGPT get to work, rewriting the entire paragraph.

It changed the phrasing of words to address the target audience, so readers know that the content within the article is highly relevant to them.

Here’s the rewritten output on the right:

And ChatGPT’s response on the left.

As you can see, this feature great for working in collaboration with AI.

Great! Now we have a good introduction to work with.

Time to make it sound more human.

7. Edit the content to sound more human

It’s time for some manual edits.

I did the following:

• Improve readability: Broke up the text into 3 separate pargraphs

• Empathize with target audience: Addressed needs of data scientists, analyst, engineers, tech leaders

• Cover more grounds: Highlighted more points to be covered in the article to pique reader interest.

8. Copy and paste into your content management system

To copy, just click on the copy button at the top right corner, next to your avatar.

Bonus: Explore other features

Canvas also features a few other quick actions in its toolkit.

You can access them at the bottom right corner.

Click on this bubble at the bottom:

You can quickly adjust the emojis, final polishes, length, reading level, and suggest edits.

Have fun with this neat tool!

That’s all for this week.

See you next time!

Justin Chia

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