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As of 13 August 2026, AI can suggest blog topics for your UK business.

Most people should do this themselves; the prompt is on this page.

Can you do it?

5 minutesto a draft.

15 minutesto something you’d act on.

Cost, all in£0

Skill needednone

Who has to check ityou

What the alternative costsFrase is an SEO content research and drafting tool that can help develop blog topics.

If this goes wrong: you spend time on a generic or commercially irrelevant article, then change the topic or stop using the draft.

What to actually do

  1. Do it yourself

    The route this page recommends

    A chat interface, no skill needed, and roughly 15 minutes until you can act on the result.

    How to actually do it

    1. Open your website, product or service pages, and any existing blog index, then copy the relevant URLs or topic lists into the prompt.
    2. Gather your current product list, target customer description, business location, customer questions, objections and commercial goal from your sales notes or website analytics.
    3. Paste that information into the bracketed sections of the prompt and remove any section that does not apply rather than asking the model to guess.
    4. Send the prompt to a chatbot and ask for the 20 ideas, grouped intents and ranked shortlist in one response.
    5. Compare every suggested topic with your current services, existing articles and real customer questions, deleting duplicates and topics you cannot answer accurately.
    6. Check the shortlisted topics against your own search data or a suitable SEO research tool, then choose a topic, brief the writer and verify every business-specific claim before publishing.

    Prompt

    Suggest blog topics for my UK business using the information below.
    
    Business: [describe what the business sells and where it operates]
    Ideal customers: [describe the people or organisations you want to reach]
    Main products or services: [list them]
    Commercial goal: [for example, enquiries, bookings, sales, email sign-ups or local visibility]
    Relevant expertise: [list subjects we can explain accurately]
    Customer questions and objections: [list them]
    Existing website and blog topics: [paste URLs or a list]
    Topics to avoid: [list them]
    Competitors or reference businesses: [list them if useful]
    
    Create 20 distinct blog topic ideas for this business. Focus on useful questions that the ideal customers may ask before buying, and include a mix of educational, comparison, problem-solving and local topics where appropriate. Do not invent services, qualifications, customer evidence, regulations, statistics or search-volume figures. Do not claim that a topic has demand unless the supplied information supports that claim. For each idea provide: a working title, the reader's question, search intent, the business service or product it could support, a one-sentence angle, and any fact or assumption I need to check. Group the ideas by intent, then rank the best five for the stated commercial goal. Explain the ranking in plain English and flag any topic that would need specialist review before publication.

    Open it prefilled in ChatGPT or Claude, or copy it into Gemini, which takes no prefill link.

  2. Use a tool built for this

    Second choice
  3. Hand it to a person

    The distant third

    A person who owns the outcome does this end to end, worth it when the failure is dear.

What it gets wrong

  • AI cannot know which customer questions are genuinely common in your business unless you provide sales, support or search evidence.
  • AI cannot decide whether a topic fits your brand voice, positioning or commercial priorities without your judgement.
  • AI cannot reliably establish current search demand, rankings or competitor activity from a generic prompt.
  • AI cannot tell whether your business has enough original expertise or evidence to make a topic worth publishing.
  • AI can produce plausible duplicates and broad ideas that look useful but do not lead naturally to one of your products or services.

Even on a YES, the friction has a name: context depth, taste and real time truth.

How we scored this

Five axes, each scored nought to two by hand: ten means AI carries the task cleanly, and the thresholds that turn a total into YES, PARTLY or NO are published in the methodology. Each axis name links to its definition.

AxisScore (0–2)
Output2
Inputs2
Verification2
Liability2
Effort delta2
Total10 / 10

FAQ

Can ChatGPT come up with blog ideas for my business?
Yes. Give it your customers, services, location, existing content and commercial goal, and it can produce and group a useful list of blog ideas. Check the shortlist against real customer questions and your own services before commissioning or publishing anything.
How do I get AI to suggest SEO topics?
Ask for topics based on search intent and customer questions, but tell it not to invent search volume, rankings or statistics. Use an SEO research tool to check demand and competition because a chatbot's topic list is not evidence that people are searching for those terms.
Can AI write blog topics that attract customers?
It can suggest topics connected to buying questions, objections and your products or services. It cannot know which subjects will attract your customers unless you provide evidence from sales conversations, support queries, analytics or keyword research.
Is it worth using AI for a small business blog?
Yes, for the initial research, brainstorming and sorting. The useful result depends on you supplying specific business information and rejecting generic ideas before they become part of your content plan.

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Assessed by gpt-5.6-luna (gpt-5.6-luna) on 2026-08-13, second-checked by an independent model. Wrong somewhere? Email [email protected] and it gets re-checked.

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