How To Easily Generate Topics For a Guest Post Campaign Using AI Tools

Guest posting is a key strategy for acquiring links to your site. You publish a post on another site relevant to your niche with the link to your blog or service page. Here is a guide on how to find such sites. When you form a list of sites to submit guest posts, let’s review the step-by-step process to offer a suitable topic to increase the chance of publishing your post.

Check if the site accepts guest posts

It’s a common practice when the page about Guest Post Guidelines is published on the site, but the editorial team stops accepting posts. How to check if the site still publishes guest posts?

Option 1: Review the recently published posts on the Blog or the Resources section

Manually check the date of the last published story, and if there are any links to other commercial sites. In the screenshot below, the article was published two weeks ago.

Nevertheless, it can take some time to manually research a lot of blog pages. How to speed up the process?

Option 2: Ahrefs Linked Domains section

Open the Linked Domains section and set up the following settings:

• Dofollow links
• Links from target 1 – 1
• No. of redirects: No redirects
• Sort by First seen

You can review a list of domains in the column “Linked domains” and ignore domains with DR over 80, and check other domains if they are commercial sites.

It allows you to double-check if the site accepts guest posts and publish such content last month.

Find contacts

Usually, you can find the email in the Editorial Guidelines page. But sometimes there is no such option, no email or contact form. 

Should you send a guest post request via the General Contact form or email like support@xxx or info@xxx? It’s likely that your email will be ignored. In that case, you can reach out to the Editor or Content Manager of the site who manages guest post submissions.

Scroll blog pages to the Author bio and find the email address, or at least the first and last name of the Editor or Content Specialist.

You can find email, LinkedIn link, and other contact information about the person who possibly manages guest post submissions on the site.

Let’s move to the next section on what topic you should suggest.

Suggest the topic with the AI

Review current guest post guidelines and match them with your content plan. For instance, you are going to write about AI in E-commerce Marketing. It’s a great match with the site’s editorial policy below.

Using AI to generate topics

How to write the request to generate relevant topics?

• Copy and paste the site’s guest post guidelines (AI tools sometimes can’t properly read content from the webpage, so we can insert the text instead of sharing the URL of the guest post guidelines page).
• Mention the number of suggested topics (I usually ask to generate three topics).

Result:

1. How AI is Transforming eCommerce Marketing with Personalization at Scale
2. The Future of B2B Logistics: How AI is Driving Lead Generation in Freight Forwarding
3. From Chatbots to Predictive Insights: AI Tools Every Online Business Needs in 2025

The next step is to select a suitable one for the pitch.

Check if the mentioned topic is already published on the site

Let’s check if our topics are already published on the site. In case the same topic is already published on the site, we can receive a rejection from the site’s editorial team. ChatGPT shows that we can move forward with the suggested topics.

Let’s check via Google search operators

1. How AI is Transforming eCommerce Marketing with Personalization at Scale

A similar article has already been published on the site. So, let’s check the next one.

2. The Future of B2B Logistics: How AI is Driving Lead Generation in Freight Forwarding

👍Great result! This topic will be new for the site.

3. From Chatbots to Predictive Insights: AI Tools Every Online Business Needs in 2025

There are three similar articles on the site. Let’s go back to the second topic.

As a result, the AI model ChatGPT makes great topic suggestions, but doesn’t check if the suggested topics have already been published on the site.

Check if you can find sources to write the article

The next step is to find sources to write the suggested topic. Based on Google search results, there are no exact articles to rewrite, so if your content specialist is ready to conduct additional research, you can move forward with this topic.
🚨Be aware that an AI tool can suggest a topic with a low amount of resources; it’ll be difficult to write the article. That’s why this check is so important before the pitch topic. 

Write the pitch

When you have a valuable topic that meets the site’s editorial guest post guidelines, collect energy and patience to “sell” it to the site’s editorial team. 

Fill the form

Below is the screenshot of a form for submitting a guest post. In this case, you don’t need to write a custom pitch email. Just fill in all required fields.

Send first email

The majority of sites require sending the email to a dedicated address. In this case, you need to write the email to describe why your suggested topic should be taken into account.

It’s a good idea to ask an AI tool like ChatGPT to write a such email, but I recommend to make edits and simplify the pitch.

Here is a sample of standard pitch

Hi, would you approve the next topic “The Future of B2B Logistics: How AI is Driving Lead Generation in Freight Forwarding” with dofollow link to [] (anchor: [])?

Ready to write the article based on your guidelines.

Waiting for your reply

Write follow-ups

My approach is to write 2-3 follow-ups after 3-5 days after the previous email.

What are the next actions when you don’t receive a reply?

Find alternative ways to reach editors:

• Find additional emails of editors using tools like Hunter.io or VoilaNorbert.
• Search the LinkedIn profile of the editor and send the pitch. Also, you can find social media accounts, but it’s not a suitable way to reach the editor.
• Write to contributors of the site and ask how they reach out to the editor.

Conclusion

AI tools are helpful for fast topic suggestions when you manage a guest posting campaign with 50+ guest posts per month. It saves your time; nevertheless, pay attention to the ability to write the article based on an AI-suggested topic. Also, AI models can show wrong results when searching for duplicate content on the site.