So if you happen to receive an error popup when selecting “Google Search Results” from the right click menu, don’t worry, the data will be back very soon…

As you can imagine we have a lot of data to process (close to 50 million domains!) though we would expect the whole process to be completed within the next 24 hours.

Thank you so much for your patience!

Competition levels ?  Don’t care, these domains ALREADY rank!

Exact Match ? Don’t care!

.org. .net, .com, etc. ?  Don’t care

In fact, we don’t care about ANYTHING at all…except…what kind of traffic does this keyword phrase get…the one that this domain already ranks for ?  If it’s a nice chunk of traffic, and it’s something we could monetize with an affiliate offer of some kind…then we want that domain!  Getting it can build an instant profitable little business.

So how does IMeye work with domains ?

It’s VERY simple.  For each keyword phrase (and we have 4.5 million now!), we store the top 10 sites in Google’s organic search for a normal search (we call that a broad search where the user simply enters the keyword phrase into Google…this is how most searches are done by real people) and we store the top 10 sites in Google’s organic search for a phrase match search (this is where you put your keyword phrase in “quotes”).  We store the broad search for obvious reasons…these sites are instant traffic getters.  We store the phrase match, because these sites are poised to be on the first page for broad search.  A few backlinks, and you can likely turn a domain you get that ranks for phrase match into a broad match ranking domain.  These phrase match domains are often cheaper and easier to get, so they’re well worth looking at!

Every single day we look at these 90 MILLION DOMAINS (4.5 million keywords, and we look at 10 broad match and 10 phrase match domains for each..this is approximate, as there is some duplication there) and we see which ones are expiring soon, expired and ready to register again, or up for auction right now.

People are often surprised that these domains actually become available and can really be obtained.  These domains have such incredible value!  The fact is…that many people simply don’t know what they have.  They don’t even realize they’re ranked, or they’re not doing anything with a site and just forget about it, or they need cash so they auction it off without really realizing the true value.  When you’re looking at 90 million domains each day to see if any are available…it’s just a sheer numbers game.  You’re going to find a lot of gems!

So, the way to take advantage of IMeye is to just look for great traffic numbers, and domains that are available for either broad or phrase match (don’t check both of these options as it’s an “AND” and it will only return a domain if it is a broad AND a phrase match…which dramatically lowers your domains to look at.  Just use them separately.).  Then you can click on the domain icon and see what kind of availability that domain has.

Let’s take a look at a real example.  One I found this morning, in about 3 minutes…literally.

I looked for traffic first.  I like to get at least 3000 monthly searches (exact) OR around 15000 monthly searches (phrase).  Try both as you’ll get different domains.  Then, all I look for are domains that are available…so I set Domain Matches to “Include all keywords having” (VERY IMPORTANT) and then select either Domains for Sale (phrase match) OR Domains for Sale (broad match).  Once again, try both and see what you can find!

This morning, I quickly found the search phrase “ebook software”.  It gets over 12,000 monthly exact searches and 33000 phrase match monthly searches, and it seemed like something I could monetize, so…all good on the first step.

Then, I went over to www.semrush.com (free to use) and put the domain in to see where it ranks for keywords (this will not yield as good results for phrase match domains…remember these are more for their potential).  Luckily, not only does that domain rank for the term I saw (confirming IMeye’s snapshot of data), BUT, it ALSO ranks for another (almost the same) term that gets double the traffic (ebooks software)

Domain at semrush

Next I have to find out how I could get the domain.  I click on the domain icon (the red or green circle with the exclamation point in the Domain Matches column) to get to our Register Compass interface.

IMeye and Register Compass

It shows me that it’s available at namejet.  I click on the “buy” link and I’m taken over to namejet.

Name Jet Listing

From seeing the namejet information, I can see it’s a domain that’s set to be “released” in a couple of days.  So, I have the chance to get it!  I can place a “bid” for a back order.  Back ordering domains is a bit outside the scope of this blog post, but it allows you to quickly snag it before others can see that it’s expired.  Sometimes you’ll see these kinds of availability, other times you’ll be able to simply immediately register a domain, and other times you’ll be able to enter an auction (think eBay!) to buy the domain.  IMeye and Register compass look for all of these opportunities.

Now that I’ve confirmed the domain ranks and will get traffic, AND that I could actually get it for (possibly) under $100 (it’s possible you could click on it and it will show an auction for $5,000 or something! simply move on when that happens!).  Let’s see how I could monetize it.

I do a google search for ebook software and come up with this site:

“http://www.ebookgold.com/”

It’s a software product that has an affiliate program.  There you go..that’s what I’ll sell! 

I can obtain that domain and build an affiliate site to promote and send traffic to ebookgold.

An opportunity like this could be worth a LOT.  It’s very reasonable to assume that simply getting this domain could result in 100-500 visitors per day who are VERY interested in ebook software.  This could mean 1-5 sales per day…easily.  At a $33 commission per sale, this opportunity could be worth $12,000 to $60,000 per year.

3 minutes with IMeye, and then a day to put up a really nice affiliate site…to build a business like that??  Oh, and there’s plenty more where that came from AND the domains that are available change EVERY SINGLE DAY.

This is why I laugh when people say IMeye is too expensive, frankly…it’s because they can’t see this.  You just get ONE of these kinds of opportunities per year (and this took me 3 minutes…let’s not forget!) and you can get a 600% (and that’s at the 1 sale per day mark!) return on the YEARLY expense of IMeye

Please…use it…let these opportunities just fall right into your lap!

However, with your ideas and suggestions, we’re about to make it all even better.  In summary, what we heard was “Give us more keywords”, “Give us more domains that you look at each day”, “Give us exact and broad match for search volume”.

In response to our customers, I am thrilled to announce the following enhancements to IMeye:

1.  We have TRIPLED the number of keywords in our database.  By the time you get this email, our keywords will have gone from approximately 1 Million at launch to over 3 Million.  In order to do this, we have focused on adding the keywords rather than getting ALL of the metrics loaded.  So, approximately 1.5 Million total keywords are lacking Intitle (and only intitle, you may still do all the searches you like on all the other critical values) at this moment, but they will quickly be updated.

2.  We have TRIPLED the number of domains we are researching each and EVERY day.  We have gone from examining 20 Million domains that currently rank for “our keywords” to over 60 Million domains.  This means there will be THREE times the number of domains to look at each and every day.  You should start to see this increase Sunday morning (May 2).

3.  We have changed our collection procedure and the interface to IMeye to collect and sort/filter on exact match AND broad match.  This data will begin to populate the database next week sometime and we expect that within 30 days or so of that start, the majority of the keywords will have these values!

PLEASE REFRESH your browser to see these changes!

All of these changes have been done in less than 1 month!  Imagine what we have in store for you guys .  We have only scratched the surface here.  There is so much more coming.  We can’t even begin to tell you how excited we are at the possibilities that open up with IMeye each and every day.  We have a lot in store for you guys!

Please remember to check the flashing beacon in IMeye regularly for other updates, as we’ll only bother you by email for the critical ones.

Speak Soon!

At any given moment in time, IMeye now has 13,000 domains that are expiring, expired or up for auction.  All of these domains already rank on the first page of Google. These domains change every single day!

I’m not sure how it ever gets any easier than this.

I encourage you to use this, not as a literal paint by numbers example to follow…BUT…as a way to understand the tool and be able to apply it yourself and use it in many different ways to help you make money online.

To beat my hammer analogy to death, I want to show you how to use the front surface of the hammer to pound in a nail, in the hopes that you completely understand its purpose and its potential so you could use it to pound a peg into a hole or something else.  The whole idea being…these examples I’ll give (now and in the near future) are just ways to use this powerful tool.  There are practically an infinite number of things you can really do once you get in the right  mindset of how to use this tool.  This point is REALLY important as I’ve had a few people actually take ALL the examples that I gave in the IMeye tutorial videos and simply combine them together into one big search criteria, thereby looking for a perfect SEO keyword, AND a perfect adwords keyword, AND where there’s an exact match domain , AND where the exact match domain is for sale etc. etc.  Obviously, there aren’t many keywords that will meet that!  This is not the way to use the tool.  The idea is to look for targeted opportunities given a “perfect storm” of key indicators where you can hit the ground running and have a leg up on ways to make money online….let’s take a look at what I mean.

Let’s say I want to do a new affiliate marketing project, and I’m looking for an SEO project.  I find it’s best to start with the traffic source that I plan on using for a new project as that drives many search parameters.

So, the first thing I’ll set is my monthly search volume minimum.  I normally set that to no lower than 15,000 in the hopes of getting 100 visitors per day (see the intro video for the “math” behind that), but for this…I know there will be LOTS of opportunities so I’ll be a bit more greedy.  I’ll set it to 30,000 minimum.  The goal of this filter and column is to make sure there is enough search volume out there to make it worth my time to invest in a project.  Please note, if I were doing an adwords project I would’ve set the minimum number of searches MUCH higher as discussed in the tutorial videos.

Next I want to set the level of competition I’m comfortable with going after.  I’ll do that with the competing pages and intitle columns.  These two metrics are certainly not the complete picture of competition, but…in my experience they are almost always VERY important key indicators.  I want something pretty easy to compete, so I’ll set competing pages at no more than 500,000 and intitle at no more than 50,000.

As a guide, I think of 0-50,000 competing pages as VERY easy to compete; 50,001 - 250,000 competing pages as EASY to compete; 250,0001 - 500,000 as MEDIUM to compete and over 500,000 as HARD to compete.   For intitle…I consider 0 - 20,000 as VERY easy ; 10,001 - 50,000 as EASY ; 50,001 - 75,000 as MEDIUM and anything over 75,000 as HARD.

So far we have it set to give us a nice amount of searches, and a medium/easy level of competition as measured by competing pages and intitle.

Then, what I do…is just randomly bounce around the results!  Any and all of these keywords…and there are a LOT of them… are good candidates for a project (in fact, you could be even more greedy with the search volumes and/or competition levels etc.).

I found this keyword: “maxillary sinus”

It gets 40,000 searches per month and running it through Keyword Blueprint I got a green check and a score of 10 (which is right in the middle…a medium!) so I’m good to go.  I run it through Keyword Blueprint to check the data in real time AND to completely evaluate the SEO competition as Keyword Blueprint looks at much more than just intitle and competing pages.  It examines the strength of the top 10 competitors for that keyword.

Now, what do I “do” or sell ?  Well, it’s helpful to learn what the heck that keyword is and see if there’s really any commercial viability.  So I simply do a google search for it.  The returned results show much discussion about sinusitis and cures etc.  I then went over to Clickbank and did a search in the marketplace for “sinus”.  There were several results.  I could easily pick one of these and build an affiliate site for one of them.

Now, if you know how to build affiliate sites and then do “SEO” to get your site ranked.  GREAT!  If you do not, here’s where your access to Mining Money Online comes in (see the tutorial/videos page for access).  This beginner’s course will walk you through how to build a site and how to do SEO.

So…we’ve found an opportunity and we found something to sell, and we have the training and tools to make it happen.

I’ll be doing more of these in the near future…so watch this space!

This product should level the playing field and give everyone the background in Internet marketing to take full advantage of all IMeye opportunities

You may access Mining Money Online here with your same IMeye username and password :

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In addition, to further help everyone make the most from IMeye, I will be doing a series of VERY detailed examples of how we use IMeye, and posting these once a week.  The first one will coincide with a small enhancement to IMeye later in this week.  We’ll be adding a “What’s New” tab to make sure you’re always kept up to date.  Each time I post an example, it will be broadcast here!

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The keyword column
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First let’s talk about how this column works with regard to filtering.  If you enter “Dog training” in the field and ask it to filter results, it does not give you keywords related to dog training.  It gives you keyword phrases that have the words “dog training” in them.  Trying to use IMeye to find “related” keywords from a seed is the wrong way to use this tool.  If you’re going to do keyword research that way (which is perfectly reasonable when you KNOW the niche you’re going after etc.), then Keyword Blueprint or Market Samurai are the tools you want for that job.  IMeye is not designed to expand keyword lists from niches you already know of.  It’s designed to help you find that one keyword here and that one keyword over there…that you never knew of…that my take you in a completely different niche.  You need to be “open” to the opportunities and let them find you…not have you find them.

It takes some getting used to, but believe me it’s incredibly powerful.

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Exact Match Domains
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The reason you can search / filter on whether an exact match domain is in the top 10 of the rankings, is because…in certain VERY special circumstances…(competing pages < 50000, intitle < 20000), exact match domains do VERY VERY well…so…you’re simply looking for the absence of an exact match domain on the first page.  Then you could try to go get one (com, net, org) or one that’s very close with hyphens and /or extra words etc.  And then it’s a matter if just doing basic SEO.

Now..a COMPLETELY different use of IMeye is looking at the domains that ALREADY rank in the rankings…and seeing what ones that are expiring or up for auction that you can get that can give you instant rankings…(well almost anyway)…and building projects around them.  Now…to the extent that this may also be an exact match…GREAT…BUT…that will be rare…and not the point…just gravy, because their value is in the fact that they already rank for the keyword you’re looking at.  You have instant Google ranking penetration potential!

Several people were trying to combine these things and only look for those special levels of competition AND where there’s an exact match domain name for SALE.  You do not need to do this.  That represents the combination of two very powerful tactics which would be very hard to find keywords that satisfy.

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Domain Availability
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There’s been some confusion about how we are presenting the domains that are expiring or are up for auction.  Here’s how it works:

For every keyword we have…and let’s just use 1 million for now…we store the top 10 domains that rank for a broad match search and the top 10 domains that rank for a phrase match search. This data is updated approximately 1x per month or so.  So…we now have a database of 20 million domains to look at that may be valuable to own as they are ranking already.

Every day…a different percentage of these domains become available due to expiring or up for auction.  So every day…we bounce our complete list of domains up against what’s expiring or up for auction…and if there’s a hit..bingo!  This is why it’s different every single day.

Add to this the fact that if we add 20k keywords in a day.  We are now checking an additional 400k domains EVERY DAY.  (20k x 20).

The bottom line is that every day (at around 7-9 AM EST), there are thousands of new opportunities to acquire domains that already rank in Google.

One other note.  If you’re getting the message “This Domain is no longer available”, that actually means that we’re updating the database while you’re trying to check.  We’re working to change that message as it’s misleading.

In addition, if you’re seeing only 1 or 2 domains available, that also means the update is going on.  Giving it 30 minutes or so will correct that.

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Only 50 pages of data?
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I’ve been asked about the 50 pages of data limitation and the number of keywords per page.  The number of keywords per page is directly related to your monitor’s size (well, really resolution).  The higher the resolution, the more keywords you’ll see per page.

The 50 page limit represents the limitation of the number of keywords you’re able to bring into your workspace at one time to sort and look through.

It does NOT mean that you’re only allowed 50 pages of data as there can be 10’s of thousands of pages, obviously.

The way to see “more” or “all” of them is to simply make your search criteria more targeted.  For example, when you first hit the red x filter to reset everything…it pulls all keywords and gives you the first 50 pages of data.  But, if you filter on search volumes > 150000 and bids < .05 etc., or whatever combination you’re looking for at the time, the search criteria will get narrower and narrower and will eventually return back less than 50 pages as you get more targeted.

The idea here is that no one really wants to look through 50 pages anyway!  You want the keywords to find you, so tightening your criteria ruthlessly is the best bet!

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Where did my options icon go ?
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Originally, IMeye had an options icon because we thought we would have…uhm…options :-)  We didn’t end up with any, so the icon went away!

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What’s with the “foreign” words ?
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IMeye is a global tool.  There is a whole other world out there besides countries that speak English!  If someone is searching on it , it’s going to make its way into our tool regardless of what language it is.
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Slow and steady wins the race!
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Finally I wanted to share a thought about the best way to incorporate IMeye into your workflow.  I see too many people who are rushing in and trying to grab 50 domains…or find 1000 keywords and own all the opportunities the first day IMeye came out

That’s not the best use of this powerful tool.

It’s quality not quantity that counts here, and it’s another paradigm shift away from more traditional keyword research.

The best idea, I think, is to set a goal.  I’d suggest 1 keyword and 1 domain opportunity per week.  Find your best ones, and then go use them to build out something that will get you revenue!  Then rinse/repeat.

Because new keywords and new domains are added every single day…you don’t have to stress.  IMeye can be a long term partner in building your online business.  And, since you’re an early adopter, you’re locked in to this price forever even as we raise the price for new members shortly.  Finding just one opportunity in a year (seriously) can pay for a whole year’s worth of IMeye access in a matter of a month or two.  And that’s just one…find one or two per week!

Within 30 days, we’ll have the ability to sort/filter on the “age” of the keyword so, you can tell IMeye that you’ve already searched through the previous keywords.  I only want to look at the most recent ones or the ones since I’ve looked before etc.  This will go a long way towards making the tool more valuable for people to use routinely.

In addition, we have lots of exciting new things we’ll be adding to IMeye.  The power this platform gives us is staggering.  You’ll be so happy that you’ve chosen to come along for the ride.

But..in a good way!

Check it out right here!