Drill down into areas that interest you to find product niches that are enjoying sufficient popularity to be good ones to explore using eBay's own freely available market research information!
I encourage clients, associates and even friends to create content-rich sites for whatever they specialize in with the purpose of building an audience and forging relationships.
The type of content aside, the way to create a popular web property is to slowly grow larger over time in an organized, attractive layout with uniquely useful material focused on your niche.
All website analytical tools have their pros and cons, and many people use more than one to track their website's visitors and gather other important data. With that in mind, I've put together this list of some of the best.
All of these web applications offer a free service; while some are completely free, others offer a premium account as well.
There is an exception. I've included the Mint and Yahoo analytical software packages in this list due to their popularity, although they are not free.
What a great resource! These folks have done simple training videos on many of the most popular and functional solutions around for Twitter, Wordpress, etc. This is a GREAT starting point to build a base of knowledge.
I can definitely recommend this webinar if you are interested in picking up some good, useful information on SEO and link building with many methods to improve page ranking and popularity, both on a domain and on an individual page as well.