“Let’s call a spade a spade.”
When it comes to content strategy, most brands usually struggle with consistency, engagement, and piecing out how individual pieces work together holistically to bring in prospects.
This is why having content pillars ready as part of your strategy is critical before you can even begin with a content calendar.
Content pillars provide structure and allow for scalability. From an SEO perspective, they’re also pretty effective at bringing about relevance to your site and boosting your visibility on SERPs.
However, putting together content pillars can easily become a difficult task.
That’s why in today’s guide, we built you a content pillar AI prompt that can help you build content pillars, bolster your existing strategy, and honestly, make life a little easier.
So without further adieu, let’s do this!
The Importance of Content Pillars
Content pillars form an important part of any organization’s content strategy.
A content pillar is basically a central theme that serves as an organization’s foundation for all its content.
They usually cover 3-5 themes and have clustered topics beneath them.
The reason they work so well is that they’re structured for content planning. Without specific pillars, you run the risk of random content creation versus having an actual strategy.
Content pillars allow for growth hackers to:
- Quickly build authority – as it establishes expertise in specific niches.
- Keep consistency – aids in aligning your messaging across different platforms and channels.
- Help with engagement – allows for meaningful interactions as your audience knows you’re specialized.
- Repurpose when necessary – a key trait of content pillars is their ability to create once and distribute multiple times.
When content is properly structured, you don’t need to scramble to find out what you should post next. It allows you to always have a continuous strategy in place that doesn’t deviate from the organization’s goals.
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Content PIllar AI Prompt
This is another one of our longer prompts, so bear with us.
Why is it so long?
It’s because we’re pushing for context here.
Given that this is a fully-fledged strategy we’re trying to pull, we have no choice but to ensure we cover all our bases. At the same time, we want to ensure that all you have to do is input your information and you’re good to go.
I mean it’s a BAMF prompt, so we wanted to do the heavy lifting for you.
I want to develop a structured, high-impact Content Pillar Strategy that aligns with [your brand/business] and serves as a strong foundation for long-term content creation. This strategy should establish [your niche, expertise, or industry] as an authority while ensuring that the content is modular, repurposable, and optimized for audience engagement across multiple platforms.
A strong Content Pillar Strategy is about creating a scalable framework that fuels continuous content production while maintaining consistency and relevance. The process should start with defining core content themes (pillars) that align with audience needs and business objectives. From there, we should generate supporting content clusters that expand on these pillars, ensuring a mix of evergreen and trending topics to maximize reach and retention.
Let’s develop a Content Pillar Strategy tailored for [your brand/industry], covering:**
• Primary Content Pillars: The 3–5 overarching themes that define your brand’s expertise and messaging. These should be general enough to generate ongoing content but specific enough to differentiate.
• Content Clusters & Formats: Supporting subtopics that break down each pillar into actionable pieces across different content formats such as blog posts, social media, video scripts, email sequences, etc.
• Distribution Strategy: How content will be optimized and repurposed for different platforms while maintaining coherence and engagement specific to that platform.
• Engagement & SEO Considerations: How to ensure content drives audience interaction, ranks for relevant keywords, and positions [your brand] as a thought leader.
• Content Calendar & Workflow: A structured plan for content creation, scheduling, and iteration to ensure consistency and avoid creative burnout.
Key Inputs for Customization:
• Industry/Niche: [Your business focus—marketing, SaaS, personal branding, AI, finance, etc.]
• Target Audience: [Who is consuming this content—founders, marketers, developers, executives, etc.]
• Content Goals: [Build authority, generate leads, improve engagement, SEO ranking, etc.]
• Brand Voice & Style: [Authoritative, data-driven, casual, storytelling, etc.]
• Preferred Platforms: [LinkedIn, YouTube, newsletters, podcasts, etc.]
The output should provide:
1. 3–5 well-defined content pillars that align with [your brand’s expertise].
2. A breakdown of 5–7 content clusters per pillar, ensuring variety and depth.
3. Recommended content formats for each cluster to maximize distribution.
4. A strategic repurposing workflow that extends content lifespan and reach.
5. A sample 3-month content calendar with suggested posting frequencies.
Now, generate a structured Content Pillar Strategy that ensures long-term content consistency, audience engagement, and brand authority.
The Output
We filled out the prompt with some boilerplate filler text for a SaaS company called XYZ Marketing, the rest of the placeholders were filled with the usual marketing needs of the sample company.
(Could this be one of our longer prompts?)
For this prompt, we used ChatGPT 4o from OpenAI as it is the most common AI tool that everyone is pretty familiar with.
And wow, the results were just stunning.
First off, the content pillars were all spot on. We work with SaaS clients and this is almost akin to the content we usually recommend to them. Most of the topics are workable.
Of course, they’re no replacement for someone actually taking the time to come up with unique topics, but this is still effective with just minor tweaks.
The content clusters were pretty effective as well, a lot of the topics are pretty spot on, and even the titles all seem to be optimized for SEO.
At the same time, we like the topic ideas as they don’t just set the tone for what other sub-topics you can cover, they also follow in the same voice of the hypothetical brand.
The distribution is pretty basic we’ll admit, however, you can easily use follow-up prompts to make sure they’re more fleshed out when you need them. The sections serve more as an example of what content types you should ideally be working with.
In the same vein, the sample content calendar and cadence are generalized and you can further flesh it out with an additional prompt at the end.
Our verdict?
This is more than what most companies have at the beginning!
Even if you already have your pillars set up you can still use this prompt to sanity-check your work and as a springboard for more ideas in the future.
Takeaways Regarding the Content Pillar AI Prompt
Regardless if you use this content pillar AI prompt or not, we want to insist on the importance of content pillars in any content strategy.
The reason behind this is simple.
It establishes you as an authority.
People perceive brands depending on the statements that they make, and one of the biggest sources is always the content that they put out.
By establishing streamlined and consistent approaches to content, you can position your brand’s knowledge in different topics and that adds to the trust signals you’re putting out there.
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