Creating long form content with Article Forge can be as easy as entering a keyword and clicking a button.
But you can have more control over your articles by telling Article Forge what topics you do and do not want it to write about.
In this post, we are going to cover how you can tell Article Forge what not to write about by excluding topics from your articles.
Why exclude topics?
There are many reasons why you might want to exclude certain topics from your articles, here are a few of the most popular:
Exclude the names of your competitors
- When you are writing about a product or service, you want your brand mentioned and not your competitors!
Exclude specific talking points or sub topics of your main keyword
- This helps Article Forge focus more on other aspects of your main keyword.
- Note: This is especially useful if you are creating multiple articles about the same topic but want to make sure they all focus on different points.
Exclude topics that Article Forge may have had trouble with in previous articles
- This helps prevent Article Forge from writing about the things that confuse it
How to exclude topics:
From the interface:
All you need to do is enter the topics you don’t want included in the “Excluded Topics” field (one per line, max: 5 topics) as seen below:
Note: You can use the same process for the Bulk Article Generator, but excluded topics will apply to each article.
From the API:
The API includes an excluded_topics
parameter that can be provided with an initiate_article request
.
The excluded_topics
parameter should be passed as a string where the excluded topics are separated by comma (e.g. excludedTopic1,excludedTopic2,excludedTopic3).
For more information, view the Article Forge API documentation here
Watch Article Forge exclude topics:
Excluding topics is just one of the ways you can control what Article Forge writes about.
For more ways to control and shape your Article Forge content, check out the articles below: