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How to create an Article

Learn how to quickly create an Article with Aksu. This guide will walk you through each step, from logging in to generating SEO-optimized content. With Aksu, you can customize every detail to fit your needs, ensuring high-quality articles every time.

Prerequisites

• Aksu user
  • If you don’t have a user yet, you can create one here: https://app.aksu.ai/register
• Credits
  • When you sign up, you get 50 free credits! It’s sufficient for more than 1 Article.
  • If you run out of free credits, you can purchase more on the “Billing/Credits” page in the app.

Log in to the application at https://app.aksu.ai.

When you have logged in successfully, you should be redirected to the “All articles” view. In the top navigation, you should see a link to the “New Article” page. Click on the “New Article” link.

You should now be on the New Article page. On this page, you can enter the details of the Article you want to generate.

Language

Aksu supports a wide range of languages, including the local dialect variants (e.g. Spanish (Spain), Spanish (Mexico), Spanish (Argentina), etc.).

• A language you need is missing? Let us know, and we will add it!

Title

Pretty straightforward – this is the title of your article/page.

Keywords

What are the SEO keywords you would like to target?

Enter 1 to 5 keywords & mark the most important one as Primary keyword.

Category

Category is an optional but recommended field. It will help you later on to find, group & filter for specific Articles on the All Articles page.

Tone of voice

The Tone of voice field dictates the writing style of the Article. You can also add other instructions regarding the niche & target audience.

Examples:

• “Formal. No jargon. Dry humour is allowed.”
• “Funny, make some jokes here and there. Don’t be afraid to use technical terms and acronyms, the reader will be aware of those.”
• “You are a specialist in financial content. Be very conservative in your instructions. Use formal language. Use generic language, do not mention any brands or services by name.”
• “Use Simple English. Sentences should be as short as possible. Prefer using bullet lists wherever suitable.”
• “This is a PROMOTIONAL LANDING PAGE, so do not use language like “Article” or “Guide” in the text.”

Article structure guidelines

Any instructions and guidelines you want to provide the writer engine. You can also instruct the writer to use WordPress shortcodes and other “magic elements” in this field.

Examples:

• “This landing page will be published on a Swedish loan comparison website that wants to help consumers make smart financial decisions. Each section should be 150-250 words longs (hard requirement) with this exception(!!): H1 section (i.e. the first section) should be only 1 sentence long(!!). Aim for 10 sections total.”
• “You are working on a blog post that will be published on a self care niche site. Aim for 5 sections, 100-300 words per section. Use this WordPress shortcode once or twice in the content: [promoted_products]. Note that it needs to be added to a separate line. Near the end of the page, add this shortcode: [related_articles].”
• “Aim for 8 sections, around 150 words each. Throw in at least 2 unexpected section titles to keep the reader engaged. Use a lot of lists, it’s ok for a section to be 90% of lists.”
• “You are writing a comparison article / review about 2 smartphones. I will give you all the technical details about the devices in the Source Material section. Think of important areas where the devices should be compared, and decide a winner for each area. Try to think of 5 areas to compare, adding a couple of filler sections, so around 8 sections total for the page. In the last section, decide which device is better i.e. the winner of the comparison.”

Source material

In this optional field, you can add any source material that might help the writer engine to produce more accurate content. For now, only textual source material is supported.

Create article

Once you have filled out all the required fields, you can click on Create Article to continue.

You also have the option to Autogenerate the article. If you check this box, Aksu will start writing the article immediately. If you leave this box unchecked, you will be able to manually control the section titles and the section writing instructions of the article. When first starting out with Aksu, it’s recommended to leave this box unchecked.

When you have created the Article, it appears on the “All Articles” listing. Click on the Article title, or the blue “View” button to go to the “Article” view.

When you open the Article you just created, you will see 4 sections:

1. Article metadata/settings
2. Section instructions
3. Finished Article
4. Event Log

In the Section instructions segment, you have 3 options:

1. Add the section instructions manually
2. Generate the section instructions automatically using AI
3. Generate the section instructions automatically using AI & make manual changes before continuing

Generating the section instructions automatically with AI will cost you some credits (between 2-6 credits, depending on the requested article length and the amount of source material). If you want to save your credits, and/or have more control over the content, you can also type in all the section instructions manually.

Remember to click on Save Changes if you make any manual changes to the section instructions.

Once you are satisfied with the Section instructions, you can proceed to generating the full Article.

When you click on Generate Article, Aksu gathers all the Article metadata & section instructions and produces a full article.

You can monitor the progress in real-time in the Event Log segment.

When Aksu is finished with the Article, the result will be visible immediately. You also have the option to open the result in a new tab, or even in raw HTML.

Once the Article is finished, you also have the option to generate an optimized SEO title & description for the content. This operation costs between 1-4 credits, depending on the article length.

In a couple of seconds, your SEO meta is generated, and it becomes visible above the content:

Once the Article has been generated, you have the option to push it directly to your WordPress site using a WordPress credential you’ve linked to Aksu.

Select a credential and click on “Push to WordPress”. This operation does not cost you any credits.

• To control the post status (“Published” vs. “Draft”), page template settings, and other things like that, navigate to the “WordPress credentials” page and edit the WordPress Credential.