thedirty..heres the skinny..
Goto's inventory search shows how many searches were done on a particular key- word or phrase the previous month at oveture.
It is an important TOOL in helping you determine if there is a MARKET for what ever product or service you are interested in and a chance to profit from that..
Using the keyword "baseball" for example..you see their were 271,000 search's using the keyword "Baseball" ..so you see that baseball is indeed a popular market..now you dont need overture to tell the word "baseball" gets hits from people actually typeing "basball.com" in the URL address bar ..correct..
It simply is used to show you that Baseball or whatever is a viable market or not.
now to profit off that..you already understand the domain "Baseball.com" baseball.net, baseball.Us etc are long gone..and to just have a nonsensical domain like "myfavoritebaseballstuff.com " is to long, to general and no specific enough to worth while as a domain to resale or worth the time ,energy or money to build into something worthwhile.
So go back to :
http://inventory.overture.com/d/searchinventory/suggestion/
and type in "Baseball" again ..see all the other baseball searchs 134585 fantasy baseball
44165 major league baseball
41284 baseball card
19689 baseball bat
18029 yahoo fantasy baseball
17009 baseball history
15115 equipment used for baseball
14900 baseball score
14665 espn baseball
14015 baseball hall of fame
11926 baseball gloves
11450 baseball cap
11221 baseball picture
10388 angel baseball
9942 minor league baseball
7972 baseball strike
7928 fantasy baseball
7921 baseball hat
7913 baseball stats
7900 baseball card price
etc..
Find what you are interested in . say Baseball Caps ..you see that their is a market for baseball caps..and common sense tells their should be.correct? so that would make an excellent domain if available... for a number of reasons.. for one thing when you submit your domain to be added to directories like DMOZ and such..the editors appreciate the fact that your domain reflects your website and vice versa.. some search engines algorithims also search the domain name for the keywords "baseballcaps"
Many other variables of course but always do your best to have your doamin reflect your product /service
The most important thing to remeber is all those different searchs you see are actual words and phrases people are using inthe search..
chances are all things considered ..
no one is searching "myfavoritebaseballstuff.com "
but they are searching for "Baseball Cap"
BTW..BaseballCap.US is available..the plural is better but still a nice keyword domain..
Some people claim that by typing in a word with the extension as in Baseball.com at overture can reflect the actual number of people actually typ-ing a word in the URL..(true type-in) to some degree that can be used as a rough measure.."baseball.com for example shows that AT oveture last month over 6,000 idiots actually "searched" for baseball.com at oveture instead of directly in their URL address bar) the problem with that is it can EASILY be abused..
hers how take "myfavoritebaseballstuff.com " do to
http://www.overture.com/ and act like you are searching for "myfavoritebaseballstuff.com " 100 times..typ in in ovetures search box..100 times..
then next month go back to :
http://inventory.overture.com/d/searchinventory/suggestion/
and you will see " myfavoritebaseballstuff.com " had 100 search's..wow that must be a great name ..! :laugh: so beware and use common sense...
so you think you found a great widget domain..then one of your first stops should be at
http://inventory.overture.com/d/searchinventory/suggestion just to see if anyone even wants that widget..is there a market..?