RealNames Keywords Plus?

Any experiences?

[ggrot]

This may have been mentioned here before, but realnames is offering a 'keywords plus' service wherein you can purchase a $300 review and a $200 annual fee (not included in the review - initial submission is $500) for a single keyword.

They seem to be very relaxed on the keyword selection now. I can type in 2 or 3 word key phrases and they get accepted by the initial script in many cases(who knows about the review).

As before the realnames keywords come up #1, above goto even, on msn searches.

Does anyone have any anecdotal evidence of this being worth the $500 1st year + $200 every other year? How about submission acceptances? Any luck?

[skibum]

I inquired several times about the keywords plus and never received so much as an automated response from RealNames.

[tedster]

Yeah, they seem to be a bit TOO relaxed, especially with Explorer hijacking typos to MSN Search.

Just a few months ago the RealNames fee seemed over the top. But now the "paying field" has shifted so rapidly that it's beginning to look a lot less crazy.

[knighty]

Do people really search from the address bar?

Are there any stats?

Dont they only work *IF* you are running IE on a PC and have the option enabled in your prefs?

[ggrot]

If you search from the IE address bar, it would go straight to your site for an exact match(kinda hard to track this), but the real gold lies in the fact that a search for your keyword on regular msn (using any browser) will deliver your site to the top of the results with a special differentiating icon.

Of course, if I could get a keyword of the quality of 'online casino' or something, then it would definitely be worth it but the question is whether or not I can actually purchase such a keyword assumming the script on the main page says it isn't reserved. I just have no clue what their review process is like.