One year ago, I spent $500 in order to do a comprehensive AI SEO test. I wanted to figure out if you could automate the whole SEO process, get tons of traffic, and then monetize it. And today, I finally wanna reveal the results of it and share the good, the bad, and the ugly with you. Welcome back to the AI driven marketer. I'm Dan Sanchez. My friends call me Sanchez. And today, it's an exciting day because I literally did this last February. Last February, I spent all the money, set up all the processes, and had it go crazy with this AI tool that I invested in and had been running articles, hundreds and hundreds of articles ever since then.

And what I found out is that it's kinda got mixed results. In fact, it's probably more bad than good. But let me show you what I did in order for you not to fall for the same trap I did and now what I'm doing instead. So I bought a tool because it was cheap on AppSumo. You know, you can get these lifetime deals on AppSumo, and I fell for this one. It's called the SEO writer with auto posting or WP auto blog. And it's still a pretty prominent tool, and I think it's still an AppSumo deal if you wanna test it out yourself. But here's what I found.

This tool works directly with WordPress, uses a an AI connection tool in order to write hundreds and hundreds of articles, and I upped it to, like I bought I double I triple stacked the code so I could write up to 500 blogs a month. So let me log in, and I'll kinda show you how it works. You could see here's all the different articles I was writing. In addition to buying this tool, I bought a whole different web host so I could have five WordPress sites and that were fast and on WPX.net. So it was it was not the cheapest web host, but it wasn't the most expensive either, $20 a month, and I just bought a whole year's worth just so I could test this thing out. So So that was like half of the 500 right there. The other half went to triple stacking the codes for WP auto blog. And and then, of course, I had to register five domains, because I wasn't gonna test this out on my main site.

Are you crazy? Didn't want Google to, like, flag my site as spam. I had to test this out on fresh domains and see if it worked there. And here's the tool. You come to come in here, and you can do some keyword research with it, but I was doing the keyword research more manually because I wanted it to hit the right keywords. Right? And then you tie in your keywords here, or what I did was put in just the titles instead of letting it just make the titles up for me. I was pretty good at title writing, so I masqueraded all the titles and kind of just used the same template that I knew would work over and over again for the long tail keywords. You come in here, you put in a 200, three hundred titles. Right? And usually trying to do this as fast as possible on Google Sheets with the titles.

And then you get to have some settings. You know? It's like English. Do you want to publish immediately? No. You'd usually schedule it out every six to three hours so that it doesn't look like an AI bot just slammed and threw down, you know, four 500 articles all at once. You wanna spread it out over the month. Just spread it out every three to six hours depending how fast you're posting. You get a group going and you can post it onto a website. You can see here's all the websites I did.

I did multiple categories. I did one on AI marketing, one on video studios, one on audience growth, one on prayer, and one on bible verses, because these are two prayer and bible verses are things that I've written extensively for. I've done a lot of content marketing for, so I knew the market. And so I was tying trying a bunch of different things that were analogous to things that I'd done before or things that I was known for that I could kinda see and vet more easily. And all these websites are gone now, and you'll find out why in a second. You could pick the style. You could pick the point of view that you want to write in, the article length, which I always went for the maximum article length, of course. And then you could pick out some of these different sections in there.

You could give it a a personal prompt, which was really key. This was this wasn't in here at first, and then it became in here about halfway through the year. I started utilizing it because before, you couldn't really prompt it. You couldn't give it special instructions here. You could at least load in some special instructions. You could have it give it some instructions on what types of images to use, buttons, setting up other links inside of it so you could do some cross linking between these articles, and not all overall, not a bad setup. Right? But what I found over and over again is that it was good at writing out, knocking out all these articles, but the articles were just horrible. They were so bad.