😳 This Tools Stack is AWESOME

Creating content sucks. 🤮 But it sucks even more when to create this content; you have to juggle it between dozens of tools, copy and paste it, export images, etc.  This leads to a lot of time wasted or you paying staff just to handle these mundane tasks. And that’s why I’ve been on a quest to build the perfect SEO content editor stack. A stack that would allow me to: 👉 Collaborate with our writers and give them feedback on the content 👉 See a history of changes so I can pay writers to update content 👉 Get SEO recommendations to increase the chances of ranking 👉 Easily build internal links on my site 👉 Check for uniqueness and be sure the writers did not steal the content 👉 Check for bad writing style (long sentences, hard to read, etc.) 👉 Easily push the content to WordPress And I know you’re going to tell me if such a tool existed, we’d probably all know about it. And you’re not totally wrong, BUT with a little bit of creativity, you can actually achieve all these things in a single interface. Let me show you how now. 1. The Base Interface & Collab- [Google Docs]( The text editor we picked as the base of our holy SEO content editor probably won’t surprise you: We use [Google Docs / Drive](. Mainly because, first of all, it’s free, and I’m a cheap ass. But most importantly, because the ability to highlight sections and drop comments / collaborate is the best in the market.   Additionally, it offers tons of extensions that we will be using to bring in all the SEO features we want, and it integrates into most project management systems. Herre’s me attaching it to a task inside Asana for a writer to pick it up: In case you didn’t know, Google docs is also AWESOME for internal linking. If you highlight a word and select the link option, you can Google your own pages to add links to them very quickly. 2. The SEO Recommendation layer - [Surfer Content Editor]( Now that we have our base text editor, it’s time to bring in the SEO suggestions while writing. And for this, we selected [Surfer SEO’s Content Editor](. Why? Because together with their Chrome Extension, they can overlay SEO suggestions for your writers on Google docs without sharing any login. It’s simple to use for the writer and coaches them into writing content ranks without our input. Plus, we get to specify precisely which competitors the suggestions should be based on. and we can fix anything that doesn’t feel natural in the keyword suggestion manually to fine-tune the suggestions. So we maintain full control of the SEO recommendations while at the same time letting Surfer do the heavy lifting with their suggestions. 3. The Style & Uniqueness layer - [Grammarly Premium]( So now we have taken care of the collab and SEO part, but we still did not address 2 very crucial aspects of content creation: Writing style and Uniqueness. I’m not going to tell you why these are important; you guys already know. Let’s focus on the tech solution: [Grammarly Premium]( Similar to Surfer, Grammarly offers a Chrome extension that overlays on Google docs and brings most of its features in the text editor where we do all the work. And unlike what its name suggests, the Premium version of Grammarly doesn’t just fix basic grammar and typos. It also fixes cluttered writing style and even rewrites poor sentences for you: What’s even better is that they let you set the goal of the content, like the tone you want to take or how simple you want the language of the article to be. Grammarly will then tailor the suggestions based on these. It’s really quite good, and as a non-native speaker, I use it all the time. The one thing that irks me a bit is that they have another super helpful feature that is NOT present on the Chrome extension: Plagiarism check. That’s right, you don’t need to fork any money to Copyscape with Grammarly premium. Just copy & paste the text in the web app and click the plagiarism button on the bottom right of the screen. In this case, the article is already published on the Authority Hacker blog, and Grammarly quickly found out AH was the original source. Pretty cool, eh? Too bad you have to leave Google Docs to get this function 😥. 4. 1 Click WordPress Push - [Wordable.io]( I know what you’re thinking at this point. "Dude, that’s cool, but Gdocs ain’t ranking my website..." And you will be correct. Moving content from Google docs to WordPress has always been a f*cking pain in the 🍑. First of all, if you copy & paste, your images are hosted on Google docs and often break. Plus, if you look at the HTML of copied content from Google docs in WordPress classic editor, if you still use it, you will see it adds a bunch of useless styles and tags that bloat your page. (image courtesy of Kinsta) But Worry not, I have found a solution that might save you a lot of "uploader" job costs: [Wordable.io]( This little tool basically takes your Google doc and uploads it the right way as a draft on your site in just 1 click. First, you have to install their plugin on your site and click on the connect button so they can push content to it. Then, you have to connect a Google drive folder where the docs of your posts will be. Then the documents inside the folder will show up in the list, and you can filter to find the article you are looking for. After that, you click on the export button and select the options you want them to apply to the content while uploading. Options include open links in new tabs, adding alt text to images with their file name, or resizing images. Then click on the export now button. And voila! One or two minutes later, your post is exported and perfectly formatted, the images are uploaded in your media library, and you just need to add the finishing touches before pressing publish.  And this is how you streamline content creation from drafting on page rules, collaborating, fixing style, and uploading, mainly within the Google docs interface. Using this stack has saved us tons of time (and money) by not having to copy and paste and reformat our content to dozens of tools to get what we want. What do you think of this stack? Do you have any extra tools to suggest for it? I’d love to hear your suggestion and whether you liked this email, so hit the reply button and let me know! Until then, have a great weekend! Gael Breton Co-Founder of Authority Hacker Sent to: {EMAIL} [Unsubscribe]( Authority Hacker, 20-22 Wenlock Road, London, N1 7GU, United Kingdom