The Top 3 AI Writing Tools I Use to Write Blog Posts on My Content Affiliate Sites

As a content creator and blogger trying to grow my content affiliate websites’ content and income, I’m always on the lookout for the right tools that can help me generate high-quality, SEO-optimized blog posts easily, quickly, and efficiently.

So here’s a list of my current Top 3 go-to AI writing tools and the features I like and use of each tool:

1. KoalaWriter — One-click article publishing
2. ContentPace — Write SEO-optimized articles
3. Quillbot — Paraphrasing tool, grammar checker, and writing assistant

Bonus section: a few additional AI writing tools I also use

I feel like these have been covered and reviewed quite extensively by others already, so I’ve just included a short summary of these tools.

4. ChatGPT and OpenAI Playground — Chat and writing tool
(Useful resource: FlowGPT — ChatGPT writing prompts)

5. Jasper.ai — All-round writing tool with 70+ templates

6. Originality.ai — AI detector and plagiarism checker

1. KoalaWriter — One-click article publishing

KoalaWriter is an advanced AI writing tool that produces high-quality articles quickly and easily. The tool’s simple-to-use interface and speedy processing of the user’s keyword and prompt inputs result in the tool generating publish-ready content in minimal time. The tool is ideal for content creators including bloggers and content marketers. It uses OpenAI’s GPT-3.5 and GPT-4 language model systems.

Best Features

• Produces high-quality, well-structured blog posts that often require minimal editing.
• Offers a very simple form design interface with drop-down options where users only need to enter a target keyword, plus a few prompts if they wish, and then they can just click the ‘Create Article’ button to generate the article. This enables users to generate content very quickly and easily.
• You can choose either the GPT-3.5 or GPT-4 AI model to generate high-quality content (using GPT-4 uses 5x the word count usage credits though).
• Option to use real-time search results to write your article.
• Option to use an outline editor first. You can then re-order, delete and add new sections to the outline before generating your article.
• You can also write an Amazon Product Roundup article quickly. The writer will “automatically find the best products on Amazon for your topic using up-to-date product data, specifications, reviews and more”.
• The KoalaChat tool uses the GPT-3.5 Turbo model.
• There’s a Google Sheets Integration to connect GPT-3.5 to Google Sheets.
• There’s an active and helpful Discord community you can join.

Pricing

There is a free trial of 5000 words and 25 chat messages available. You don’t need to set up an account to check out this cool tool!

To review KoalaWriter’s subscription plans, just go to their website and then select ‘Pricing’ in the menu. Here you’ll find all the monthly plan options available and more info on what’s included with each plan.

• The Essentials plan is U.S. $9/month, with 15k words/month and 250 messages/month
• The Starter plan is U.S. $25/month, with 45k words/month and 500 messages/month
• The Professional plan is U.S. $49/month, with 100k words/month and 1000 messages/month
• The Boost plan is U.S. $99/month, with 250k words/month and 2500 messages/month

Summary

KoalaWriter is my favourite AI writing tool at the moment, as I really like the quality of the article it generates by just entering some target keywords and further prompt information if I want to add these in.

The outlines it generates are much better than many other tools I’ve used. I often use the initial article generated as a great starting point from which to edit from. It has already saved me a lot of time when writing blog posts. I also obviously make sure that I fact-check each article before publishing.

KoalaWriter is best suited for bloggers, content creators, digital marketers, and writers who need to produce high-quality blog posts quickly and efficiently. It is also ideal for those who need to generate Amazon product roundup-type articles.

2. Contentpace — Write SEO-optimized articles

Contentpace is a powerful AI app that gathers information from the top 50 organic search engine results for your target keywords. It then presents the information in a clear, easy-to-read summary layout that lets you view and compare the results easily.

From here, the user can analyze the data and see how they could write an SEO-optimized article to potentially outrank these competitor articles. This tool automates and greatly speeds up what would usually be a very labor-intensive and time-consuming research task.

Best Features

• Quickly generates a useful and comprehensive Topic Report once the user types in the keywords they want to rank for.
• Information returned includes a table format analysis of the top 50 results displaying each article’s rank, status, title, score, word count, readability, number of images, number of headlines, paragraphs, and metadata title and description.
• The Topic Report also shows the outlines of the Top 50 articles showing the H1’s to H6’s of each article so the user can get a snapshot of the main sub-topics each article covers.
• It also lists the top questions asked about the topic on the Quora and Reddit forums, important NLP phrases and words to use in your article, and the alt texts and outbound URLs used in the top-ranking articles.
• There’s a Content brief editor panel that lets the user add headlines from any of the Top 50 articles. These can then be reordered or changed to a different H (heading type).
• There’s a simple-to-use content optimization editor where the user can write or paste content into the editor and start to add or remove the suggested words and phrases aiming for these to turn green. There are also on-page SEO instructions to follow. The left column allows the user to track how their optimization efforts are going by giving you the numeric score, words, readability, keywords, images, headings and paragraphs to aim for, and the number you’re currently at.
• The Content Audit feature lets the user paste in the URL of a page they want to analyze. This could be an article on a competitor’s or any other website.
• You can create and optimize content in 14 languages including English, French, Spanish, Portuguese, and Swedish.
• There’s a stock photos library with millions of royalty-free stock photos you can use in your articles.
• You can share and collaborate content briefs with your team and others easily with a unique url.

Pricing

Check out Contentpace’s pricing page for the full range of monthly plan options and more info on what’s included with each plan.

• The Essential plan is U.S. $27/month. Each month you get 20 topic reports, 20 content briefs, 20 content projects, and 200MB media hosting.
• The Team plan is U.S. $57/month. Each month you get 50 topic reports, 50 content briefs, 50 content projects, and 500MB media hosting.
• The Agency plan is U.S. $97/month. Each month you get 100 topic reports, 100 content briefs, 100 content projects, and 1GB media hosting.

All plans also include limited content audit, unlimited content planning and Unlimited user seats.

Summary

Contentpace is an ideal tool for content creators and marketers who are looking to produce SEO-optimized content that could potentially outrank competitor articles on the first page of the SERPs (search engine results pages) by following the recommendations of the tool based on the data it retrieves and analyzes from the Top 50 ranked articles.

Overall, I found the tool saved me heaps of time on research and generating article outlines. The tool simply automates the huge and tedious information-gathering task and presents the information in a way that is easy to scan in a minute or two. If you were to complete this task manually for 50 articles it would probably take a day or more.

If you’re building content affiliate websites and want to try and get your blog posts to rank on the first page of Google or other search engines, with the objective of getting lots of organic traffic each month, then this tool is worth adding to your content workflow tool stack.

3. Quillbot — Paraphrasing tool, grammar checker, and writing assistant

Quillbot is a great AI-driven paraphrasing tool, grammar checker, and writing assistant designed to improve your content to be more coherent, clear, and readable, with a tone appropriate for that piece of writing. The tool achieves this by altering the sentence structure and substituting words with precise synonyms.

Best Features

(Note and disclosure: this section is written based on using Quillbot’s Premium features, subscription kindly provided by Quillbot. The differences between the Basic (Free) vs Premium subscription features can be found over at Quillbot).

• You can select from 7 different paraphrase modes/styles to apply to your text, to suit the intended purpose of your writing. These modes are Standard, Fluency, Formal, Simple, Creative, Expand, or Shorten.
• Or you can also create your own paraphrase style, for example, ‘Like a social media influencer’. This gives you the flexibility to paraphrase in a wide range of styles.
• You can slide the Synonym scale to the left or right to generate a version with fewer (more accurate) or more (less accurate) synonym changes to your text. This can give you interesting results.
• Great user interface with 2 panels side-by-side (desktop only). You paste the original text on the left-side panel, then apply the mode and synonym level
• The thesaurus function is very handy and useful as you can click on any word in the right-side panel to look for alternative synonyms for that word.
• There’s a grammar checker where you simply paste your text into the panel and it’ll give you the word count and the number of errors underlined in red with the suggested correction.
• Scan up to 20 pages (250 words per page) per month to check for plagiarism. It can scan text in 100+ languages including French, Spanish, Portuguese, Arabic, and Chinese.
• The Summarizer feature lets you summarize your pasted text into Key Sentences in bullet point form or in Paragraph form. You can select the summary length using a slider.
• The Citation Generator is very easy-to-use. You can cite a webpage, journal article, book, and other sources including an image or video. You can also select your preferred citation style.
• The Translator module lets you paste text from 30 languages and convert the text into one of the 30 listed languages.
• There is a Chrome and a Word extension that lets you view suggested grammar changes and paraphrase text when using the Chrome browser or Word respectively.

Special mention of the Quillbot Flow Tool

Quillbot Flow is a great tool to help with your writing, whether you’re a student, academic, journalist, or any other type of writer. It’s like having your own personal writing and research assistant working with you on your document.

• Use Smart Scan to help you write an essay, blog post, or research paper. You enter your topic with a brief description and Quillbot will generate an outline for you.
• The Research icon lets you type a search query and it’ll return the top 10–20 web results. You can then view the text of the Full Article in the panel, or view the Highlights which essentially lists the main H2’s (subheadings) of the article with the text for that section included below it, or finally view the Topic/Keywords of that article. You can also bookmark these links.
• Under the Research icon, you can also select the Academic option which will return academic papers matching your search query keywords. You can also see how many articles papers cited a particular paper. Plus you can also easily cite these papers in your document. You can also bookmark these links.
• There’s a Notes icon where you can add your own notes.
• The Citations icon also lets you create a citation using a number of Citation styles.

Pricing

Check out Quillbot’s pricing page for the features you get with the Free vs Premium subscription.

• The monthly plan is U.S. $19.95 billed monthly
• The semi-annual plan is U.S. $13.33 per month billed every 6 months at U.S. $79.95 (saving of U.S. $39.75).
• The annual plan is U.S. $8.33 per month billed every 12 months at U.S. $99.95 (saving of U.S. $139.45).

You can also pause your subscription if you’re taking a break, which is a pretty cool feature not many other app tools offer.

There’s also a 100% money-back guarantee within 3 days of purchase.

Note: There is a special promotional offer until May 14th at midnight CST where you can get 30% off the annual plan. Promotion code: FINAL30.

Summary

Quillbot is a great AI-powered tool that can help you take your writing to the next level! With its ability to restructure sentences and find the perfect synonyms, your content can be edited to a high standard in minimal time.

This tool offers plenty of different features such as a grammar checker, plagiarism checker, Quillbot Flow, summarizer, citation generator, and translator to help you out with what you need to write.

I was particularly impressed with the features that come with the Quillbot Flow tool. It can support writers in their research and writing journey! Overall, Quillbot is a valuable tool for anyone looking to improve their writing and editing skills and their documents before publishing.

BONUS SECTION: a few additional AI writing tools I also use

I feel like these have been covered and reviewed quite extensively by others already, so I’ve just included a short summary of these tools.

4. ChatGPT and OpenAI Playground — Chat and writing tool

Literally everyone’s heard of ChatGTP from OpenAI by now. It’s designed for the user to type in questions or prompts into the blank field box at the bottom of the screen and then ChatGTP will generate a response. The interface takes on a more conversational style of exchange where you go and back and forth with the AI.

Or go to OpenAI’s Playground more interactive platform where users can experiment with OpenAI’s language models, including GPT-3 and GPT-4 (paid).

Useful resource: FlowGPT — ChatGPT writing prompts

FlowGPT lists a whole lot of prompts you can use on ChatGPT and other similar AI tools. You can also share your best prompts and use cases, and upvote prompts. Reading the prompts helps you think about ways to structure your own prompts when using these tools to try and get a better outline or piece of content overall.

5. Jasper.ai — All-round writing tool with 70+ templates

Jasper has a whole range of templates to help you generate content for all types of use case scenarios. These include email, social media, video, and marketing templates. I usually start from scratch using the Freeform document mode. Jasper has now also added a Chat function (beta). I’m subscribed to the Boss Mode which lets you generate long-form content.

6. Originality.ai — AI detector and plagiarism checker

Originality.ai will detect if AI tools were used to create the content. The tool also has a plagiarism checker that can scan approximately 1000 to 1500 words at a time. You can also scan a website of up to 1000 pages. It costs U.S. $0.01 per credit and 1 credit scans 100 words for either AI detection or to check plagiarism.