13 Useful AI Tools for Blogs and Websites

In a nutshell: If you’re just starting your blog or business website, you’re up against years of SEO experience, teams and budgets. Sounds discouraging, right? It shouldn’t be. In the past few years, the playing field has been evened out more than ever before by AI tools.

So I’ve compiled a list of 13 tools that are truly worthy of being in a new entrepreneur’s toolkit. Not the flashy ones that everyone hails and then forgets about after a week. That’s how blogging works, and they are divided into 4 categories: content, SEO, design and growth. You write it, you make it available, you make it attractive and you push it out to the world. 

Content Creation

Jasper AI is a fast writing tool. Put in the subject and a bit of guidance, and it will spittle out a draft on which you can build a publishable article. It is not going to write your best blog for you; however, it will help you overcome the blank page syndrome, which unfortunately kills more blogs than bad SEO ever does.

Frase.io: This is a variation. Rather than simply writing, Frase analyzes the existing content ranking for your keyword and lets you know what topics and questions you may be missing. Imagine that you are doing your homework prior to writing the essay.

Grammarly Not glamorous, but necessary. If the ideas are good, it can lose the trust it garnered in a blog post littered with typos. Grammarly is a tool that is capable of identifying grammar mistakes that you might not notice when you’re looking at your own work. 

SEO

Ahrefs (SEO Research) Ahrefs is the place where most serious bloggers begin their SEO journey. It reveals the ranking of your competitors, helps you see where you’re ranking over time, identifies technical problems on your site, and identifies the backlinks. If you ever asked yourself the question “why isn’t anyone finding my blog?”, chances are that Ahrefs has the answer.

Surfer SEO (Content Optimization) When you have an idea you want to write, Surfer seo ensures that you write it in a way that Google will reward you. It compares your draft with the top-ranking pages in the website and provides you with instant ideas related to the structure, length, and words that are sure to be included on your page. This can save you a ton of headache if you’re working on your own.

6. SEMrush is a good partner of Ashref. If you are running paid ads or are interested in local search, then SEMrush will do a little more. 

Design and Visuals

Vecteezy (Editorial Photos & Visual Content) Stock photography either makes your site look legit or makes it look like a template nobody bothered to update. Vecteezy has a huge library of photos, vectors, and illustrations that work well for blog headers and banners. Editorial photography (sports, news, events) is worth checking out specifically if your blog touches on current events or anything time-sensitive, since generic stock photos just don’t cut it there. For anyone without a photography budget, and let’s be honest, that’s most new entrepreneurs, it’s one of the easier wins.

Decent-looking graphics can be created with no experience of design with Canva’s AI features, such as Magic Design. Ideal for sharing a blog post on Instagram or Pinterest.

Adobe Firefly If you don’t have a stock photo that fits the bill, Firefly creates unique photos on a text prompt. It’s a nice way to get your blog to have visuals that no one else has because everyone is using the same stock sites and you will end up with the same look. 

Growth and Distribution

10. It’s not just about writing, but it’s also great for thinking out loud. Brainstorming topics, creating outlines, determining how to make an old post and three new posts. Many business owners use it more like a sounding board than as a writer.

Good for your inbox, but that’s not all of Mailchimp Traffic. With Mailchimp’s automation and segmentation, you can attract one time readers into your audience, and then have them return without having to do it all by yourself.

Buffer Buffer’ AI can recommend optimal post times and create captions from your blog posts. Distribution is more important than they think and consistency on social media is one of the few free things that you can do to continue growing.

 Google Analytics (with AI Insights) You can’t fix what you can’t see. The AI-powered insights in Analytics can now identify abnormal traffic usage and pinpoint what actually works so you don’t blindly run off into the direction of what you think you need to write next. 

Putting It Together

None of these tools have much effect unless they are used together. Which is a realistic process that looks like this: discover a keyword to target with Ahrefs, create a short with Frase, create and refine the content with Jasper and Surfer, edit it with Grammarly, pull the header image from Vecteezy, design a few social graphics in Canva, push it out through Buffer and Mailchimp, watch it in Analytics.

It is not necessary to learn all 13 the first day. Choose one from each category, familiarise yourself with it, and expand it as your site expands. These tools are not meant to replace your judgment and your voice, and well, they shouldn’t. What they will do is save you a ton of hours and make your blog stick out from the bigger blogs with a greater budget and team.

The blogs that are successful are not always going to be the ones that have more resources. These are the ones that are operated by individuals who know that in order to be useful to the person who reads them, the right tools must be used in conjunction with the right content.