ContentShake AI is a content writing tool that helps you create unique, engaging content that clicks with your customers. It powers your business expertise with AI and competitive data so you can produce more quality articles for your website.
ContentShake AI assists you from ideation all the way to publishing directly on your blog. Additionally, it provides competitive highlights, analyzes what’s trending in your niche, and uses AI technology to help you compose and improve your text.
Find ContentShake AI in the Semrush App Center.
How Can the ContentShake AI App Help Me?
Content marketing can help you generate more traffic and build a stable flow of customers. But what if you don’t have the time or resources to master and scale it?
ContentShake AI will do the heavy lifting and help you create authentic and optimized content with ease. It allows you to:
- Find personalized topic ideas for your business
- Assemble high-performing articles: The app generates an outline, introduction, headers, and other items with just one click
- Optimize your content for users and search engines: See your copy’s score for readability, tone of voice, and SEO
- Find issues in your text and instantly fix them using AI
- Transfer your blog posts to Google Docs
- Publish your articles directly to WordPress without leaving the tool
- Create social media posts from scratch
Who Can Use ContentShake AI?
Anyone can use ContentShake AI. It doesn’t require special skills, and it’s extremely easy to use.
Small business owners who want to spend fewer resources on content creation and more time on growing their business will find it most beneficial.
Additionally, it’ll work great for in-house marketing teams and agencies looking to scale their content production and enhance the content quality control process.
ContentShake AI is currently only available in English.
How To Use AI in Content Writing
Note that tools utilizing AI should always be used with human supervision.
If you’re an expert in the topic you’re writing about but want to save time and better optimize your content, then this tool is for you.
If you’re using the tool to write about a topic you have no knowledge of, you’re less likely to create useful content that you’ll rank for.
Pricing
Two options are available for ContentShake AI users, a paid version and a free version.
The free version includes:
- 3 articles per month
- 3 topic ideas per week
- 3 ideas for each weekly topic
- 3 daily updates for the ideas list
- Custom ideas
- 30 “AI Rewrite” and “Compose with AI” features per month
- 12 social media content generations per month
The free version includes all the basic features of the tool.
With the paid version, for $60 per month, you’ll also receive:
- 25 new content ideas per week (5 topics with 5 content ideas for each topic)
- Unlimited articles
- Unlimited “Compose with AI”, “Ask AI”, and “AI Chat” and all rewrite features
- One-click WordPress publishing
- Unlimited social media content generation per month
How To Use ContentShake AI
ContentShake AI is easy to use. Access it from the Semrush App Center and then follow these five steps.
1. Set Up Your Page
First, ContentShake AI will prompt you to enter keywords to describe your business.
Once you add these, you’ll see suggested related tags. Choose the topics relevant to your business, and click on the Start writing box.
You can change the list of keywords in the project settings - suggested ideas will be re-generated within a few minutes.
Note: keywords can be updated this way only three times per day.
2. Choose Your Ideas
Next, ContentShake AI will provide a list of topics. Click on a topic to see the search intent and traffic potential. For each topic, the app provides a list of article ideas.
Choose an idea and click the Start writing button.
Custom Topics
You can also create your own topics by clicking on the My own idea button.
After typing in your idea, click the Start writing button. You will then be directed to the page where you'll find AI suggestions for the article title, target keywords, word count, tone of voice, and readability level. You can customize these to your liking.
You can also enhance your articles' ranking on Google by utilizing the SERP-Based Article Generation feature. Simply select the Add an extra SEO boost option during article creation to activate this feature. The app will then analyze current search data to improve the ranking of your future article.
Hiding Ideas
Hide ideas that you don’t want to see again by using the “hide” icon (crossed-out eye).
More About Topics
The number of topics you see depends on whether you have a free or paid subscription. All topics are sorted based on volume and difficulty.
Every week, you’ll see new topic suggestions. Topics are rotated, so you may see the same topic again after one month.
Article ideas can't be used twice and will not be suggested again after you use them.
3. Write
After you choose your topic, ContentShake AI will produce an outline with a blog post title, subheads, intro text, images, and a conclusion. You can edit the outline and add your own text, or you can click on the Compose with AI button to add paragraphs of text.
Free users receive three AI-generated paragraphs per article. Paid users receive unlimited AI suggestions.
Additionally, you can edit an article with dynamic questions to AI by using the Ask AI feature.
With the help of this feature, you can get new structure ideas, related keywords, write an intro or conclusion for your blog post, etc. It also can answer any question, as a GPT model. It has knowledge of your article's context such as title, keyword, and typed text, and tries to help you using this data.
To the right, under the Suggestions tab, you’ll see several drop-down options.
Once you’ve selected options for each, click the Next button to update and optimize your text.
Title shows several options for your article’s headline as well as examples from competing articles.
Introduction provides you with suggestions for an opening paragraph as well as examples from your competitors.
Structure shows you the proposed heading structure of your article based on your competitors. You can add and remove headings here. Also, you can review the article structure of your competitors and dive into the actual text within each subheader.
What is more, any text from the suggestions can be rewritten using the AI rewriter by clicking the “Rewrite” button.
Images provides options for royalty-free images to include in your article. Some of these get added automatically upon article generation, but you can adjust this part by removing them or clicking the plus sign to add more. It also shows you what your competitors are using.
The AI Chat feature allows you to communicate with our chatbot. Simply ask our chatbot to generate titles, introductions, structure, suggest images, and more. The chatbot remembers what was written previously, giving it a better context.
AI Chat spends AI features limits. Free users receive 30 AI feature limits per month. Paid users receive unlimited AI feature limits.
4. Improve
The Improvements tab provides a quality score on a scale of 1 to 100, based on SEO, Readability and Tone of voice.
SEO
Readability
The Readability section provides a score based on the readability level you chose in the Targets.
It considers your current word count against the target word count, informs you of any issues with your title regarding character or word count, and also you’ll see any issues with a sentence and paragraph length as well as any additional issues with readability.
You can fix any of the highlighted issues in one click using the app's AI features. Select the text you need to adjust and choose one of the options: Rephrase, Simplify, Expand, Summarize, or Make list.
Highlight the text you want to change and choose one of the following from the toolbar:
- Rephrase: Paraphrase your piece of text to improve readability
- Simplify: Enhance your text’s readability by simplifying the selected sentences
- Expand: Combat writer’s block by adding more details related to your sentence or paragraph
- Summarize: Create a short summary of the selected piece of text
- Make list: create a list of bullet points to make text more organized and visually appealing
Tone of Voice
In the Tone of voice section, you’ll see a list of sentences that may lean too casual or too formal, depending on the tone you’re targeting.
You can change the Tone of voice target by clicking the “Edit” button.
5. Share
All finished? ContentShake AI allows you to publish directly to WordPress via our plugin, or you can send your newly created article to a Google document.
Just click on the Share button at the top right corner of the app.
Install the WordPress Plugin
Visit our Knowledge Base article for installation instructions.
Share on Google Docs
To view the article you just created in a Google document, open the Send to Google Docs drop-down and click the Open in Google Docs button.
To Share with read-only access, select the drop-down and click the Copy link button to receive a link to share a read-only version of the article with others.
How To Use ContentShake AI For Social Media Posts
Creating a Social Media Post from Scratch
1. Click the “Start writing” in the Home menu
2. Fill out the form to create a post
First, select one or several social networks for your post. Then, describe the post you need, tone of voice, and post type.
Press “Create post,” and our text generation model will provide content for a social media post you can work with and edit.
Create a Social Media Post from the Editor
You can also create a post based on an article in ContentShake AI editor. Here is how it can be done in a couple of simple steps:
1. Click the megaphone icon in the editor in the top-right corner.
2.”Create a Post" window will appear along with AI-generated post description based on the article text.
Review the description for accuracy and make necessary edits.
3. Proceed like you would when creating a post from scratch.
Frequently Asked Questions
To remove articles and posts created by ContentShake AI from your list of content, follow these simple steps:
- Navigate to "My Content" part of the interface
- Locate the article or post you want to delete
- Click on the bin icon located to the right of it to delete it
If you have other questions about the App Center or the ContentShake AI app, please email us directly at app-center@semrush.com.