How I generated 150,000+ words of well-written AI content in minutes

Lately, I’ve been on the hunt for an AI writing tool that can create content clusters with internal links automatically added.

Such a tool would be a HUGE time saver.

A few days ago, I found a tool that does exactly that, at a much lower cost than the competition.

It’s called Machined.

Machined is designed for building interlinked content clusters. It’s the best tool I’ve found for the task.

You need an OpenAI API key to use it. You only pay for your OpenAI usage and the Machined software (but it has a free trial).

150,000 words of content written using OpenAI’s GPT-3.5 model cost me $1.81. The content was well-written - absolutely worth the tiny price I paid!

Just think - before AI, 150,000 words would have cost me $4,500 at 3 cents per word - which is actually on the low side for human writers.

Mind blowing.

I also made a 10-article cluster for a site I’ll share below. This came out to nearly 30,000 words. I used the GPT-4 model for this cluster, which cost about $5. More expensive than GPT-3.5, but the quality - especially of internal link placements - was so much higher.

How to use Machined to create content clusters in minutes

1. Sign up for Machined (they offer a 7-day free trial, and then it’s $49/mo thereafter)

2. Add your OpenAI API key

3. Connect it to your WordPress site (this allows you to post drafts directly to WordPress, but it’s not required)

4. Click “Create Cluster” and fill out the fields

5. Then, you can either let it find keywords for you, or add your keywords manually. I’d strongly suggest going the manual route. You should have control over the topics you publish. Besites, AI is pretty bad at keyword research lol. The keywords you add should all be in the same cluster and the first keyword should be the “pillar” article of the cluster.

Everything above should be pretty self-explanatory once you start.

But if you run into any issues, Machined has some help guides. You can also reply to this email and I’ll do my best to help.

Anyway…

After adding your keywords, it’ll bring you to a page where you can adjust the settings for each article (OpenAI model, tone of voice, and perspective).

When you’re ready, you can have it write the articles. It can write them all at the same time if you select all and click Write Articles next to “Action”.

The great thing about Machined is that the articles are all interlinked wherever relevant. And all of them link to the main pillar article (the first one).

Writing should only take a few minutes. If it takes a long time, just refresh the page (you won’t have to start over).

Once it’s finished writing, you can read through the articles and bulk publish them to your WordPress site.

An example on one of my sites

Here’s a 10-article cluster I published:

You can see these articles live on my site in all their unedited glory (I left them unedited so you can see what the raw output from Machined is like): https://startanaquarium.com/*

Note that I tested all the different tone of voice and perspective options. You can see which ones I chose for each article in the GIF above.

For tone of voice, I like Casual, Friendly, and Humorous the best. They’re easy to read compared to the other options. For the perspective, I like second person best.

*My site, Start an Aquarium, is one of many sites I have. It’s been sitting dormant since 2020. I JUST started working on it again. So it’s nothing fancy yet lol.

Since it no longer ranks for anything (back in the day it made a few $ every month, believe it or not!) I plan to use it as my public testing grounds for AI content. 🙂

Machined compared to other AI writing tools I’ve tried

Like I said before, Machined is the only tool I know of that’s specifically designed for creating interlinked clusters. It’s fantastic for that. It’s also very inexpensive relative to most other AI writing tools.

But there are some shortcomings:

1. You can’t have it create individual articles. You have to create a cluster of at least 3 at a time. For individual articles, just use Cuppa or Koala (and there are hundreds of others as well).

2. Each cluster is limited to 50 articles. Hopefully they increase the limit soon.

3. Once you create a cluster, you can’t add to it. You have to make a new cluster.

4. Clusters in Machined aren’t aware of each other. So, an article in one cluster can only link to other articles in the same cluster.

I actually talked with the founder about some of these issues yesterday and he said they’re thinking about ways to address them. Fingers crossed!

If you want a cheap way to create interlinked clusters, Machined is the best option.

The ~180,000 words I’ve generated so far cost me about $7 total. If I wasn’t on the free trial, it would’ve cost $56. Still ridiculously low for that amount of words.

Machined saves me SO much time compared to other AI writing tools, so I’ll be a paying subscriber for the foreseeable future.

Give Machined a try and see what you think! I’d love to hear your thoughts on it.

In my next email, I’ll share step-by-step how I edit AI-written articles for better on-page SEO. My process typically takes me less than 30 minutes. Stay tuned!

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