AI Blog Outline Generator

This blog outline generator asks an AI model to plan a post before you write it: an H1 title, H2 sections, H3 subsections under them, a one-sentence note on what each section should cover and an estimated word count for the major sections. You choose the audience, the article length, optional target keywords and the standard sections to include. The topic box holds up to 300 characters.

How to use the blog outline generator

1. Type your topic or working title in Blog Topic / Title, for example "How to start composting in a small apartment".
2. Pick a Target Audience: General Public, Beginners, Intermediate, Experts / Professionals, Business Owners or Students.
3. Pick an Article Length: Short (500-800 words), Medium (1000-1500 words, the default), Long (2000-3000 words) or Comprehensive (4000+ words).
4. Add Target Keywords if you have them, separated by commas.
5. Tick the parts you want under Include Sections, then click Generate Outline.
6. Copy the result, or press Regenerate for a different version. A link under the outline opens the AI content writer when you are ready to draft.

What each setting changes

Every setting becomes one plain line in the instructions sent to the model, such as "Target Audience: Beginners" or "Article Length: Long (2000-3000 words)". Those lines steer how many sections the model plans and how basic or technical the headings are. The model reads them as guidance, so a Short outline can still come back with seven H2s.

Introduction, FAQ and Conclusion are ticked by default. Key Takeaways and Expert Tips are optional extras. Each ticked box adds a line like "Include a FAQ section", and unticking one removes the line, although the model may still add that section on its own.

I use this tool to make sure every post plans an FAQ section, because short questions with direct answers are easy to scan and, in my view, easier for AI answer engines to quote. The outline also gives me a quick map of the subtopics before I start writing.

Example blog outline

With the composting topic, Beginners, Medium length, the keywords "apartment composting, worm bin" and the three default sections, the tool sends these lines, followed by its formatting rules (H1 for the title, H2 for main sections, H3 for subsections, a one-sentence description per section, word estimates, no preamble):

Topic: How to start composting in a small apartment
Target Audience: Beginners
Article Length: Medium (1000-1500 words)
Target Keywords: apartment composting, worm bin
Include an Introduction section
Include a FAQ section
Include a Conclusion section

An illustrative start of the reply (headings, order and estimates change on every run):

H1: Apartment Composting for Beginners: A Small-Space Guide
H2: Introduction (~100 words)
  Why composting works in a flat and what you need to begin.
H2: Choosing a Worm Bin or Bokashi Bucket (~250 words)
  H3: Worm bins
  H3: Bokashi buckets

The reply arrives as plain text. You cannot edit it inside the page, so paste it into your editor and rename or reorder sections there.

Blog post outline generator tips

• Put the angle in the topic. "Composting for renters with no balcony" gives more specific H2s than "composting".
• Treat the word estimates as the model's guess. The tool does not add them up or check them against the length you chose. For a sense of how long a post should run, read how long a blog post should be for SEO.
• Read each H2 as a question your reader has. Cut any heading that answers nothing they asked.
• Keywords are passed through as you type them. The tool does no keyword research and shows no search volumes.
• Once the post is written, the word counter shows whether each section came close to its estimate, and the meta description generator can draft the search snippet.

Limits and where your topic goes

Like every AI outline generator, this one depends on an outside model. Clicking Generate Outline sends your settings to this site's server, which passes them to an AI provider. It tries Google's Gemma models first and falls back to other providers when that fails, so the style of the outline can vary between runs. The server rejects any request over 2,000 characters; the tool's own instructions take 415 to 559 of them plus your topic, so only a keyword list longer than about 1,100 characters would hit the limit.

Each IP address can make 5 AI requests a minute, shared with the other AI writing tools on the site, and Regenerate counts as one. For a step-by-step workflow from outline to finished draft, see how to use AI to write blog posts.