Curt Dalton's 'The Internet Time Machine' – A Time Machine or A Money Machine?

I was notified about this powerful and interesting product/service a week ago and have spent a considerable part of the week evaluating it to ascertain if it performs as Curt Dalton professes and if it would give Internet marketers an edge to help them make more money.

This post is to share my evaluation and perspective of this service … (a warning  – this is a long post … had to be due to the complexity and significance of this product)!

First things first – What is The Internet Time Machine (ITM)?

Simply put, The Internet Time Machine (ITM) is an extremely powerful Search Retrieval and Analysis Engine (built on the cloud computing architecture, which gives it its power and scale), that mines over 36 million keyphrases from across the World Wide Web every 24 hours for -

a) what's being talked about
b) what is being advertised
c) which are being searched for, in what proportions and related to what topics.

The ITM has been conceptualized by Curt Dalton – an Economics major from Massachusetts, and he has rightly used core Economics principles to create an application that analyzes the inefficiencies in the supply and demand curves of what people are looking for (the demand) and how much supply is available on the search engines with respect to products or solutions (measured by number of organic search results and PPC ads for the demand keyphrases).

The ITM project, developed by a team of engineers and mathematicians, started 8 years ago and cost over $200,000 to put together. It has been in private operation for more than 2 years now and is just being opened to the public.

As a side note, Curt Dalton is launching a new search engine – NowRelevant.com, which integrates The Internet Time Machine into the paid search ad campaign platform.

How does the Internet Time Machine (ITM) work?

ITM makes a scorecard that records nouns and pronouns phrases that are being searched and time stamps them. Then the ITM goes out to the top search engines and then uses its own proprietary algorithm to analyze the trend of these key phrases.

Essentially, the ITM analyses the demand and supply curves of the latest buzz works on the internet and provides you the results.

How is the Internet Time Machine (ITM) useful to YOU – the Internet marketer?

The ITM is a revolutionary development in the realm of Internet marketing, giving Internet marketers and SEO experts the ability to foresee a highly profitable product or product niche, BEFORE it has gone public. The wealth of information provided by the ITM in the form of hundreds of thousands of extremely valuable keyphrases in this manner, creates a market breaker for product development and profitable release.

The biggest problem most Internet marketers make is simply look at 1 dimension – the demand curve to see what's in most demand, and build niche sites promoting products based on this single dimension. What they are missing, which will make a big impact on their results, is the 2nd dimension, which is the supply curve. Where supply and demand meet it is equilibrium – there is no niche here – no way to make money.

A niche develops when the supply and demand curve in a particular area is not efficient. If you just have trends, or search volume, you will not make money without the other side of the equation, the results.

The ITM uses artificial intelligence algorithms to ignore most of the mined keywords, instead choosing to focus on the top one hundredth of one percent. These are the words showing the greatest increase in search volume with results not keeping pace with volume. The team at the ITM then then back test the data to find out if what they have a "million dollar gap", which is then presented to the members.

With the ITM, the days of experimenting with varying combination of Keyword Lists and Keyword Tool Suggestions are over. Users of the ITM will have the ability to Know Today What People Will Buy Tomorrow, or better yet, are wanting to buy now!

With the ITM marketers can easily find niches that are high in demand but with low supply in terms of product and/or services.

What tools does the Internet Time Machine (ITM) provide you?

The ITM membership provides 2 levels of access -

1. The ITM Membership Site Access: which provides you with -

a. Top-10 $$ ideas
b. Latest News From The Internet Time Machine
c. Videos – covering niches and affiliate product ideas
d. Forum – covering more niches and affiliate product ideas

The deliverable from this site access includes -

i.   Monthly Secret Summary Reports
ii.  Summaries of the month in blogs posts in easy to print out PDF format.
iii. Secret Invites to Members only webinars and teleconferences
iv.  Instant tweets and email alerts about trend breakouts and how to profit them

2. The ITM Software Access: which includes the 3 search tools -

a. Most Recent Mentions From the Last 24 Hours
b. Potential Trends From the Last 24 Hours
c. ITM Core Trend Analysis

About the 3 Internet Time Machine (ITM) Tools:

a. Most Recent Mentions From the Last 24 Hours:

This tool scans over 36 million keyword phrases, proper nouns and noun phrases used in search engines, blogs, newsgroups, mailing lists, etc. – keyphrases that are the most popular 'movers' in the world – just what's currently popular, what people are talking about right now or what the buzz on the internet is right now.

Internet marketers can use the keyphrases generated by this tool for SEO purposes – by knowing the keyword phrases that are most popular, you can optimized your anchor texts, title tags, blog headlines, blog post titles, article theming etc.

Scoring -  10 being the highest from the internet buzz standpoint – what everyone is talking about … so you can make your blog or article for your niche more relevant.

b. Potential Trends From the Last 24 Hours:

This tool is ideal for PPC arbitrage -  the missing link PPC advisiters are looking for – quality clicks with little or no competition.

The tool harvests keywords and keyphrases that people are searching for on multiple search engines, which do not have enough supply with regards to content or PPC campaigns. Basically keywords/keyphrases whose search volume is rising, but organic search results or PPC is not keeping up with the search requests. The generated content is not a keyword synonym result, but the actual search terms being used – searches that are getting HOT on multiple search engines.

c. ITM Core Trend Analysis:

This is a very powerful tool for Internet marketers planning on creating a new product. This tool uses proprietary, state-of the-art search analysis algorithms to identify hot new product areas and niches that are developing worldwide. It monitors increase search volumes over time in topics and look to see where supply, organic or PPC, is not keeping up with demand. These are long term product development ideas.

Similar to (1) but goes over 60-90-120 days looking for trends – actual trends that people have continually searched for but there isn't enough results either from organic search or PPC.

This database updates every 24-48 hours.

This is the "big idea" button for product development/affiliate product promotion.

A note of caution here – since the tool analyses subjects that people are talking about, there may not be many money making niches. You may have to ignore 90-98 % of the data, but the 10-2% you find could be pure gold for product development.

How does the ITM compute the relativity SCORE for each keyphrase?

The ITM is composed of THREE major components: CRAWLERS, TREND BOTS and STATISTICAL ANALYSIS MODS.

The combined operative functionality of all three components in tandem, allows the ITM to study data from millions of sources across the web, and evaluate what keyphrases are being mentioned where on the web, what their relative importance is to the users searching for them, where (which search engines) they are being searched and in what frequency, what topics are being written about on multiple websites that are contextually relevant to these keyphrases, how much PPC Advertising there is already being conducted for these keyphrases (if any, which is the catch the ITM capitalizes on), and what keyphrases are exhibiting high volumes of search and have little to no PPC ads being supplied for them.

Having completed its daily search and analysis routines, the ITM is capable of projecting a score, individually, for each keyphrase, that depicts how valuable that keyphrase can be to Internet Marketers, SEO Experts and/or both. The scores projected are such that, the HIGHER the score, the HIGHER the DEMAND for it is (this is reflected via No. of Search Queries as only ONE of several parameters involved in computing the score), and the LOWER the SUPPLY in PPC Ads for the keyphrase in question. Typically, the HIGHEST SCORE and any scores within 5% of the HIGHEST SCORE, represent HIGHLY PROFITABLE keyphrases / keywords that if used correctly in PPC Campaigns can generate massive profits due to little to NO Advertiser Competition!

By providing these scores to users of the ITM, particularly those of the 'Potential Trends' feature, the ITM provides a wealth of information to Internet Marketers to successfully market existing products in hot niches identified by high-scoring keyphrases, OR to develop new products for the same. This presents an AMAZING plethora of hundreds of thousands of UNTAPPED keyphrase combination that are PPC-Ready, or are basically winners if used correctly in PPC Campaigns to market new or existing products.

JOINING ITM – ITM Membership Access Packages:

There are 4 membership levels offered by the ITM -

1. Bronze Package: $5.00 for the first 2 weeks, then $47 per month after the first two weeks for access to the ITM Membership Site.

2. Silver Package: $197 One Time Charge for lifetime access to the ITM Membership Site. (Click here to get a special $100 off on this membership level)

3. Gold Package: $97 per month for access to the ITM Membership Site plus ITM Software Access.

4. Platinum Package: $397 One Time Charge for lifetime access to the ITM Membership Site plus ITM Software Access.

Note: On the order page, the Platinum Package is only available as a back-end up-sell from the Silver and Gold packages.

TheInternetTimeMachine.com Membership Bonuses:

The ITM team is offering the following 3 bonuses when you sign up -

Free Bonus Gift #1: Free Niche Marketing e-book on "Knowing What People Will Buy Tomorrow"

Free Bonus Gift #2: Free copy of their "Best Money Making Areas for 2010" secret file.

Free Bonus Gift #3: Free Access to Invitation Only Private Webinars with The Internet Time Machine staff

Even if you don't sign up, you can receive their "5 Best Ideas for 2010" Free Report – in exchange for your email address.

My perspective on The Internet Time Machine:

Having had full access to the Platinum membership the past few days, I believe it is a very key tool for Internet marketers to find new, hot niches or new product ideas. We depend on this kind of intelligence to scale our revenue generation efforts and take the most advantage of new and emerging opportunities.

The model (demand-supply analysis) upon which the ITM is built is flawless and the output based on multiple sources is irrefutable. Having said this, you should be aware that since the ITM is mining from a wide database, many of the results may not pan out to be money-making niches. You have to use the information the tool provides to find products/solutions that would be viable for earning revenue. This is especially true of the ITM Core Trend Analysis tool where you would need to ignore maybe up to 98% of the keyphrases spewed out by the system. Is this a waste of time? In my opinion – No!

Also since the promoters of this service are relatively new names in the Internet marketing business, I did an extra due diligence to verify their credibility. The ITM site is rated as a Trusted Site by the Onine Business Bureau and they have a "Recommended" rating which means that they are a member in good standing with no outstanding complaints. You can find this information here.

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I look forward to your feedback and comments on this post. As always, I will answer all questions you post here to the best of my knowledge and ability.