Real Names ?

[tedster]

Does anyone here have experience buying a Real Name? Does it help with AV traffic?

[rcjordan]

tedster, I'd say that the consensus has been that they are not worth the money (and fading from the SE scene to boot).

[seth_wilde]

They usually don't seem to bring in much traffic unless you have some killer keywords in your company name.

I wouldn't consider them worthless yet though, It's been rumored that the next version of IE is going to have it's search feature focus pretty heavily on real names (microsoft bought a large part of the company about 6 months ago).