The story surrounding the brutal murder/suicide of pro football player Steve McNair and his girlfriend Sahel Kazemi is sensational yet very sad. Perhaps that is why the term “Steve McNair” is the second most popular search (after Michael Jackson) for last week.
If you are interested in writing a “magic bullet article” this week, then I suggest you write one on some aspect of this big news story. While you will probably not beat out the major news outlets such as CNN for the term: Steve McNair, it doesn’t matter. The term is getting enough traffic that you could pull in a good amount of traffic and attention by using his name in long-tail keywords.
Article Writing Ideas & Writing Prompts:
1. Write about gun violence in the US. with a tie-in to McNair’s murder.
2. Write about the cost of Steve McNair‘s infidelity to his wife, kids, family, friends.
3. Write about the general cost of infidelity in a marriage.
4. Write about signs of suicidal behavior. Were there any in Sahel Kazemi?
5. Write about pro athletes and gun violence. Is there a connection or is it coincidence?
6. Explore the age difference between McNair and Kazemi and ask if that could have been a factor in the deaths.
7. Write a feature about Steve McNair’s football career. Talk about other players whose careers or lives he touched.
8. Write a “tomorrow is not promised” type of article citing McNair as an example.
9. Write about the effects of the deaths on both McNair and Kazemi’s families.
10. Write a profile on Sahel Kazemi, her name was a top advanced search term according to Ask.com
11. Write about the devastating effects of the loss of a father to a family. McNair had a wife and 4 sons.
The key with articles on hot subjects like this is to somehow tie in the topic into your business. It has to make sense, but you’d be surprised how you can merge two very different topics into a interesting article.
Of course these article ideas and writing prompts will work a lot easier for a general news site, relationship coach, marriage and family therapist, or an organization dedicated to ending gun violence — but of course that’s part of the challenge. Making the “hot topic” relate in some way to your business.
Lisa Angelettie
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Using google trends to find a hot topic and including them in your latest article is a great way to keep your readers plugged in, participating in the ‘buzz’ and not to mention monetizing potential long-tail traffic. I saw a lot of top 10 songs, videos from MJ and many such articles related to top 10 premature celebrity deaths in last week. Everyone was talking about Susan Boyle for some time before that. The trick is to use the latest news within your niche.
Excellent point Steven. I hope everyone out there is using the many free Google tools to see what the “buzz” is in their niche.
Using google trends to find a hot topic and including them in your latest article is a great way to keep your readers plugged in, participating in the ‘buzz’ and not to mention monetizing potential long-tail traffic. I saw a lot of top 10 songs, videos from MJ and many such articles related to top 10 premature celebrity deaths in last week. Everyone was talking about Susan Boyle for some time before that. The trick is to use the latest news within your niche.
Excellent point Steven. I hope everyone out there is using the many free Google tools to see what the “buzz” is in their niche.
thanks lisa. writing just a couple of small articles on mj bumped my traffic up very well this month and your post here proved what happened.
thanks!
india
.-= IndiasWorld´s last blog ..Nelly’s New Music Featuring Diddy And….. =-.
Same here India. Everyone loves Mike!
thanks lisa. writing just a couple of small articles on mj bumped my traffic up very well this month and your post here proved what happened.
thanks!
india
.-= IndiasWorld´s last blog ..Nelly’s New Music Featuring Diddy And….. =-.
Same here India. Everyone loves Mike!
um i strongly disagree with writing about gun violence in the u.s. How about write about all the criminals not locked up that very well should be locked up? How about we write about the criminals that have the ability to recieve guns thru other criminals that are still on the streets? You people need to realize GUNS are not the problem. It is the one behind the gun that is the problem. Guns dont kill people, people kill people. I hate hearing and seeing people talk about gun violence, when they really dont kno the statistics. Criminals commit the criminal gun acts, lawful and legal logical gun owners are not, responsible. Dont put guns on the spot.
um i strongly disagree with writing about gun violence in the u.s. How about write about all the criminals not locked up that very well should be locked up? How about we write about the criminals that have the ability to recieve guns thru other criminals that are still on the streets? You people need to realize GUNS are not the problem. It is the one behind the gun that is the problem. Guns dont kill people, people kill people. I hate hearing and seeing people talk about gun violence, when they really dont kno the statistics. Criminals commit the criminal gun acts, lawful and legal logical gun owners are not, responsible. Dont put guns on the spot.
I hear you Dominic, but gun violence is just that – violence committed by people using guns. It doesn’t mean you just write about one thing or the other. You write about the accessibility to guns in the US that is quite unique from most other industrialized nations on the earth AND you can write about the people that commit the crimes with these guns. Either way – they are both problems intertwined in the fabric of our country. Thanks for stopping by.
I hear you Dominic, but gun violence is just that – violence committed by people using guns. It doesn’t mean you just write about one thing or the other. You write about the accessibility to guns in the US that is quite unique from most other industrialized nations on the earth AND you can write about the people that commit the crimes with these guns. Either way – they are both problems intertwined in the fabric of our country. Thanks for stopping by.