Two blog topics

Here are two news topics you can use for your blog. These topics will help you gain search engine traffic and probably do well in search engine rankings if you have a blog that is already established.

Sago Mine Accident
About two weeks ago, a coal mine in West Virginia collapsed trapping 12 miners. Families learned that 12 miners they thought were alive in the Sago Mine had actually died. The only survivor, Randal McCloy is awakening from his coma and started to respond slightly to his families.

It will take some time to fully recover from the injury, therefore this topic will be tracked closely by the media. You can blog about Randal’s recovery status, Sago Mine, it’s impact on coal industry, and how the families are recovering from the awful incident.

Baby Noor
From CNN

Baby Noor was discovered several weeks ago by U.S. troops raiding a house in Abu Ghraib, a poverty-stricken district in Iraq west of Baghdad. The soldiers noticed paralysis in the baby’s legs and what appeared to be a tumor on her back.

Spina bifida prevents the backbone and spinal cord from closing before birth. The tumor was actually a fluid-filled sac containing part of the baby’s spinal cord and membranes that are supposed to cover the spinal cord.

One of the soldiers, Lt. Jeff Morgan, e-mailed a friend in Douglasville who is a social worker. They enlisted the help of a variety of officials and social service organizations. Through those efforts, Noor, her grandmother and her father were brought to the United States late last month.
The Iraqi infant known as Baby Noor underwent surgery Monday for her spinal birth defects, and doctors said the operation, the first of at least three, went well.

Baby Noor is likely to be covered by the media for a long time. There will be several operations to be done. Baby Noor gained mass media coverage throughout the nation as well as the foriegn countries. This is a topic that is likely to stay little longer than Sago Mine incident. Definitely something to blog about.