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      • 2025-01-14: Reduced costs
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      • 2024-12-10: Improvements and bug fixes
      • 2024-11-12: Custom Outlines GTM
      • 2024-10-06: Humanizer GTM
      • 2024-09-23: Model updates
      • 2024-09-10: Custom Outlines beta
      • 2024-08-25: UX Improvements
      • 2024-08-17: Humanizer improvements
      • 2024-07-22: GPT-4o-mini
      • 2024-06-12: Humanizer beta
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  • Controlling the length
  • Writing long-form content
  • Writing listicles

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  1. Features

Length

Controlling the length of your article

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This guide is for controlling the length of fully automated articles, alternatively you can create to fully control your output.

Overview

Machined lets you control the length of your articles. It does this by controlling the number of sections in the outline, assuming that the average section has about 400 words. A section is defined as any H2 with all of its child content.

The table below shows how many sections and words are generated on average:

Length
Average sections (+/- 1)
Average words (+/- 400)

Short

2

800

Medium

4

1600

Long

6

2400

Very Long

8

3200

The example below has 3 sections and will be roughly 1200 words.

## Premier League 2024 Overview
### Season Highlights
### Top Scorers

## Premier League 2024 Standings
### Current Table
### Race for the Title
### Battle for Top Four

## Premier League 2024 Teams
### Promoted Teams
### Noteworthy Performances

Controlling the length

From the cluster view, use the Length dropdowns to change the length for each individual article or all of the articles in the cluster:

Writing long-form content

Creating long-form content is pretty straight forward, simply select Long - that's it!

Writing listicles

To create a listicle requires you to control both the length as well as the title:

  • Length: Short

  • Title: Listicle style for example:

    • "10 Best Beaches in Greece"

    • "Best 7 SEO Tips for Beginners"

This will result in an outline like:

# 7 Tips for Choosing the Best Keywords

## Understanding the Importance of Keyword Research
### Why Keyword Research is Critical
### How Keyword Research Impacts Your SEO

## Tips for Choosing the Best Keywords
### 1. Define Your Focus
### 2. Use Keyword Research Tools
### 3. Consider Search Intent
### 4. Analyze the Competition
### 5. Focus on Long-Tail Keywords
### 6. Avoid Keyword Stuffing
### 7. Refine Your List Over Time

Remember that AI can be inconsistent and unpredictable so it may not work perfectly every time.

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