#9 - GPT-4, Seedling Sites & Twitter Growth...

It’s been a crazy week for the newsletter, seeing our largest week of growth yet. We gained over 125 new readers this week. If you’re one of the 125, welcome!

I think we should be able to hit 1,000 subscribers by the middle of April. Got a similar-sized newsletter in this space and want to cross-promote? Reply to this email and let me know.

Anyway, here’s what we are going to cover in this week’s email:

• Quick site update

• How I’m Utilising GPT-4

• Why You Should Start Seedling Sites

• Twitter Growth

Site Updates

There are no major updates on the sites this week. A google core update rolled out during the week but none of my sites seem to have been affected either way.

However, the update is still rolling out and could cause effects either way.

Have you seen any major updates on your site? Reply to this email and let me know…

How I’m Utilising GPT-4

GPT-4 was released this week. This is the updated language model from OpenAI. If you upgrade to ChatGPT Plus you can get access to the updated version of the model.

A few thoughts so far:

• The content it produces is much better

• It can write much longer content

• It is great at ingesting content

• There are a lot of ways you can use ChatGPT that don’t involve creating AI content

With the previous version of ChatGPT I wouldn’t risk publishing the content it created on my main site. However, with this latest version, I have actually been publishing content this week.

The content is good enough that I can’t tell it came from AI. While it still needs to be fact-checked and lightly edited, it is way ahead of where the last version was.

I have been using it to create listicles and product roundups. I made a full tutorial breaking down exactly how I have been using it:

If you’re still not sure about publishing AI content on your main sites, there are a lot of other ways you can utilize this software.

Here are the 5 ways I have been using it:

1. Creating Topical Maps for new or existing sites

2. Creating Article Briefs & Outlines For Writers

3. Rephrasing/Re-writing Existing Content

4. Giving Blog Post Title Ideas

5. Feeding ChatGPT Templates and having it create content from them

Rather than try and create tutorials in this email, I have created a video outlining each of these strategies:

Why You Should Start Seedling Sites

If you’re anything like me, you probably have a severe case of shiny object syndrome. Especially since I sold my main site, it’s hard to know where to focus my attention.

However, the small sites I have started over the past few years have really helped me out over the past couple of months.

When you are starting on a brand new domain it can take a while to get your content indexed on google.

Luckily, I had 3 or 4 sites I started, wrote a few articles on, and never looked at again until I sold my main site.

Now, I have been able to jump onto these sites and expedite the growth as content indexes immediately. For example, you can clearly see where I started posting on this site below.

I was able to instantly index and start getting traffic immediately.

While I think your main focus should be one main site until you get to $5k per month, I don’t think it’s a bad idea to seed 2 or 3 other sites with 10-20 articles in niches you might want to pursue down the line.

Personally, I wish I had of grew another site to $1-2k per month before selling my main site but the opportunity to sell came and I had to take it.

Twitter Growth

This week I have been focusing on growing my Twitter more aggressively. It’s currently my favorite social media platform for business content. I never really used Twitter until this year, so I started from scratch in January.

I’m just about to close in on 1,000 followers and most of this newsletter has been grown from Twitter.

90% of these followers have come from threads. When I started to get into the Twitter world I heard about people who great massive audiences during lockdown by being “Threadbois”.

However, the impression I got was that threads didn’t work anymore. That didn’t stop me from writing a few though. These have got over 120,000 impressions in the past 28 days.

I’ve also got 5,074 profile visits and 220 new followers.

I’ll definitely be continuing to post valuable content on Twitter and push to grow that platform even further. While it’s great to grow out my personal brand on Twitter, the main focus is to capture my Twitter following in this email newsletter.

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