Breaking down the different steps of research

• You need to know what your researching, have a little search for information on the chosen topic so you have an idea of what its about and how you should go about researching it. A good place to start is wikipedia.
• Run a quick google search and make a note of the most popular sites which come up, you may want to reference back to them later.
• Have a look at Doubleclick.com, you can put in certain URL's into the search and find out the popularity of that site, this is really usful in finsding out how many people use the site, and other sites they may use.Is really useful for finding out the demographics of your audience.