ChatGpt - Understanding and preparing for the unexpected!

Hi to all the WA community, hoping this Friday is treating you well.

I was directed to a blog post by a fellow WA member that I read with eagerness hoping to unleash the power that had been discussed in the post.

Can I mention the blog and member? Still learning the ropes on do's and dont's.

@Phil1944 - ChatGpt is Writing My Blog Posts (Well, Sorta). Excellent Read.

Keen and armed with my keyword phrase obtained from Jaaxy (excellent stats), I follow the instructions as laid out in the post.

Or did I? Thinking about it now perhaps my newbie error and I changed it up!

To better my odds, I requested a 1,500 word article instead of the suggested 1,000 word article on my chosen keyword so that if I had to change a few words, I had plenty of scope. I asked for UK spelling terms to reduce my editing. Yup, I'll have this done in no time at all.

Chatbot, within seconds rolled out what appeared to be exactly what I had asked for.

Whoop woo, how cool is that! Thanks @Phil1944!

Right - I'm still new to this (only 3 posts thus far) so I've gotta think my way through the processes I've been learning in the training modules;

Go to Website - Site Content - Create New - Choose a Template - Hmm, Keyword rich? Yup, that sounds right.

Copy from ChatGpt, paste to template.

Looking good! Okay, some reordering to do, I can do this. Training was clear, concise, just do it in exactly the same way. Step by step.

Introduction - check. Headers - check. Editing some of the wording needs a bit of a tweak - check. Conclusion - check. All done! How easy was that! Publish? Nope - word count is only 689? What?

It must be me, the newbie, argh!

It's okay, all part of the learning process, you got this.

Back to Chatgpt - I make my request again - can you provide me with a 1,500 word write up on chosen keyword please (my son says I am too polite to Chatbot, no need for the pleases and thank you's mum, its an AI).

Again, a flurry of words flow, stream down the screen.

Right - It must have been me, I must have done something wrong last time, lets do this again.

Copy, Paste, Intro, Headers, this time overwrite previous script, conclusion - what in the hell? 722 word count. Really? I know there's tonnes spinning in my head, but I'm sure I typed that correctly.

Do not be defeated - I'll ask Chatbot exactly the same thing and this time I'll ask for a word count per paragraph, yup that'll work.

Same thing, a flurry of words streaming down my screen with added word count provided per paragraph, quick add up on calculator, nice hit's the target, lets go.

This time, I copy and paste into Word as I know I can get a word count. 946 - Still under? But the Chatbot added a word count - #superconfused!

By this point, now 3 hours in and of course with my limited knowledge (I'm still learning, with only 3 posts under my belt), my ability to Navigate around the page is somewhat slow. I click on a header and the whole paragraph becomes a header, I try to undo but it won't, so delete and paste again. Do not touch the header, but there's too many spaces, leave it - do not touch the header or it'll happen again. That's fine, I'll come back to the formatting, once I'm more comfortable with navigating around.

My processes are slow, and that's okay. This is all entirely new to me and the only way I'll learn is practice, practice and more practice.

Eventually, after 4 attempts, almost 4 hours and quite a few additional words that I has to add, I published my 4th content post (I had hoped to spend only 1 hour on this 'quick' post).

I didn't expect ChatGpt to provide a write up, in fact 4 write-ups, with only half of the requested word count. So ChatGpt doesn't always get it right then? Or did I do something wrong?

Valuable time wasted? Or time well spent learning?

Would love some feedback and thoughts.

Cherie

NB; I'm really happy with the post! Keyword rich, words flow, great topic and adding more content to my site, etc. All steps in the right direction for sure, albeit slower than I might have hoped!