Blog Post LinkedIn Promotion Assistant

Overview

Manually crafting LinkedIn posts for each new Ghost blog article wastes time and risks inconsistency. This workflow fetches recent posts, cleans their content, and auto-generates professional LinkedIn copy while logging everything in Google Sheets. It eliminates manual rewriting, streamlines promotion, and centralizes records for analysis.

The Impact

Slash manual effort. Automatically generate LinkedIn posts from your latest blog articles.
Centralize records. Log original and promotional content in Google Sheets for easy tracking.
Boost consistency. Maintain a uniform, professional tone across all LinkedIn promotions.
Enable analysis. Prepare structured data for social media performance reviews and optimization.

Who This Is For

Content managers automating batch LinkedIn promotions and archival for teams.
Independent authors quickly generating consistent LinkedIn posts for personal branding.
Marketing operations syncing promotions with data analysis workflows.
Social media specialists needing scalable content repurposing and tracking.

How It Works

Fetch Recent Blog Posts
Use Ghost API URL and Content API Key to retrieve a specified number of recent articles.

Clean and Map Content
Parse raw post data, clean HTML to plain text, and unify fields for processing.

Generate LinkedIn Copy
Leverage an AI model to craft concise, engaging LinkedIn posts including hooks, value points, CTAs, and author signature.

Assemble and Append Data
Build rows combining original and generated data, then append to a specified Google Sheet using OAuth credentials.

What You'll Need

Before using this template, make sure you have:

A published Ghost blog with accessible Content API enabled and keys available.

Google Sheets OAuth credentials for appending data to your spreadsheet.

A Google Sheets spreadsheet with a worksheet named as per the configuration, headers set for post ID, title, contents, excerpts, cleaned content, LinkedIn copy, and image URL.

How to Use

Step 1. Configure Parameters

Set your Ghost blog base URL, Content API key, post fetch limit, author signature, Google Sheet ID, and worksheet name in the template inputs.

Step 2. Connect Credentials

Authorize the Google Sheets OAuth credentials to enable appending rows.

Step 3. Run the Workflow

Trigger the automation to fetch posts, generate LinkedIn messages, and log all data to the sheet.

Step 4. Review Outputs

Check the Google Sheet for appended rows and verify generated LinkedIn promotional copy.

FAQs

How does the workflow generate LinkedIn posts from blog content?

It uses a large language model to analyze article metadata and cleaned text, then crafts concise LinkedIn posts with hooks, value summaries, CTAs, and author signatures.

What if my Ghost blog has more than three recent posts?

You can adjust the PostLimit parameter to fetch any number of recent posts according to your needs.

How is the content cleaned before generating LinkedIn posts?

The workflow strips HTML tags and redundant whitespace from the blog's HTML content to produce readable plain text for the AI to process.

Can I customize the author signature in the LinkedIn posts?

Yes, you can replace the default AuthorSignature parameter with your own signature and contact details.

How does the data get recorded in Google Sheets?

After generating each LinkedIn post, the workflow assembles a row with original and generated data and appends it to the configured spreadsheet and worksheet using authorized Google Sheets API access.

Updated on: Aug 28, 2026

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