How to Use Blog Pilot™ to Generate Blog Topics and Outlines

Blog Pilot™ is DropInBlog’s built-in tool that analyzes your website and generates topics, blog post titles, and outlines.

Here’s how you can use this tool to create new posts for your blog quickly.

Step-by-step guide

1. Open Blog Pilot™

To open Blog Pilot™, click on the Blog Pilot™ tab in the menu on the left.

When you open Blog Pilot™ for the first time, you’ll see the setup screen. Click Build My Roadmap to start the analysis.

Blog Pilot™ will analyze your website pages to understand your niche and identify relevant topic opportunities. You can view other pages in your account while you wait.

2. Review topic opportunities

Once it analyzes your site, Blog Pilot™ will give you an overview of its findings. Click on the Explore Topics button to review them.

Next, you’ll be taken to the Topic Groups page. Here, you’ll find one or more logically grouped topics.

For example, suggestions for a website selling coffee equipment will include topics such as espresso machines, coffee scales, and brewing methods. Instead of listing all of these topics on a single page, Blog Pilot™ will organize them into groups. This helps you find the topics you want to cover more easily.

To show you how topics are sorted in Blog Pilot, we’ll select one: coffee scales.

When you click on a topic group, you’ll be taken to another page where you’ll find one or more similar topics. We’ve selected coffee scales, so we’ll see topics related to coffee scales, such as coffee scales with a timer and espresso scales.

Under each topic suggestion, you’ll see either green, blue, or purple labels, which are used to describe the type of opportunity related to that topic. These opportunity tags indicate how strong a topic may be based on factors like search demand and competition.

The available topic opportunities are:

• Top opportunity: The topic has a lot of monthly searches, and there aren’t many websites competing for it on Google.
• Good opportunity: The topic has a lot of monthly searches, but many websites are competing for it on Google.
• Niche opportunity: The topic is highly specific to your niche. Although it may have lower search volume, it targets a very specific audience.

3. Explore blog topics

Within each topic, you’ll see the Generate Post Ideas button.

Selecting this option will generate post titles (1)  and a short description (2) for each. On the right, you’ll see the primary keyword (3) for every topic.

4. Generate an outline

Select one of the topics, then select Generate Outline to the right of the selected topic.

In a pop-up window, Blog Pilot™ will generate three outlines: short, medium, and long.

Choose the outline length based on how detailed you want your article to be:

• Short outline: for covering one idea or question
• Medium outline: for covering several topic aspects
• Long outline: for covering a topic and its subtopics in great detail

5. Edit the outline

Before you save or move the post outline to the editor, review the outline sections. Use the pencil icon to edit the section title, the close icon to remove sections, and the drag icon on the left to reorder sections.

As an example, we’ll remove a section from our outline. In the screenshot below, you’ll see the original outline on the left and the edited one on the right.

Instead of three sections, our blog post on coffee scales with a timer will now only cover key features and the top 3 models.

6. Start writing the post

Once you generate and refine a post outline, you can either save it as a draft or move it to the editor. You should choose the first option if you want to keep exploring topic opportunities and stay in Blog Pilot™.

If you want to start writing right away, select Open in Editor.

Selecting this option will open the DropInBlog editor. All headings from the selected outline (1) will be moved to the content editing area, along with short writing tips explaining what each section should cover (2).

Review the writing tips, then add your content.

Blog posts created from an outline in Blog Pilot™ can be edited like a regular blog post. That means you can add images, videos, CTAs, and other elements anywhere inside the editor. If you want, you can also add, edit, and remove content from your post.

Before you make your post public, here’s what you should know about its SEO settings:

• Blog Pilot integrates with the SEO Analyzer.
• It will automatically set a primary keyword, SEO title, and meta description.
• Review the SEO Analysis section and adjust the content if necessary.

7. Publish or schedule the post

Once your post is ready, you can save it as a draft, publish it right away, or schedule it for later. Use the publishing options on the right side of the editor to set the post status.

Select the desired option, then click on the Save Post button in the bottom bar.

Tips for using Blog Pilot™ effectively

To get the most out of Blog Pilot™, we recommend you do the following:

• Always choose a topic based on its relevance to your blog. High search volume shouldn’t be the only deciding factor.
• Select outline length based on how detailed you want the post to be. If you’re not sure, save the preferred outline as a draft, research the topic, then, if necessary, edit the draft.
• Review outlines before you start writing to get a clear picture of the key talking points before opening the outline in the editor.
• Add images, videos, FAQs, and examples to your posts to improve your content’s readability.
• To increase your post’s visibility in AI-powered searches, implement suggestions from Mention Boost™.

Now you know how Blog Pilot™ works. Try it out!

Updated on: 26/03/2026