How Much Do You Hate Popups?
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As a internet user I detest popups. But as a webmaster on certain sites I understand they may be a evil neccesity. Why?
Have you ever had a website that got over 20,000 unique visitors a day, and yet was only able to make you $10 a day with adsense? As I have said many times before adsense is a great earner but it should not be the end all.
On one of my sites, I am running: Adsense, adbrite, Amazon, and paypops. This is a huge site though and besides the popups I have trouble believing that the advertising is taking away from the user experience.
What are your thoughts on popups.
Please let me know your views from both a internet user point of view, and also from a webmaster’s point of view.
For your reference I am not talking about malicous popups that don’t go away, or popups that try to install viruses. Just your standard run of the mill popups.
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TheAnand said:
I dnt remember the last time i saw a popup on a site….exit popups are nice and command attention from a users view…..but the others are usually closed even before they are done loading….
It does not matter if I am not a regular visitor of that site
But if the site in question is a community…users can get fedup of it…October 1st, 2008 at 5:16 am -
jbsjp said:
I personally never surf a site where pop up’s appear, I fear firstly for the integrity of the site, and secondly, it shows me that the site is geared towards generating money rather than generating a surfer’s interest.
I personally on my sites, would rather earn less money than see my viewers have to go through annoying pop up’s, of course this is my opinion only!.
October 1st, 2008 at 4:13 pm -
Brad said:
From my testing, you’ll lose 20-25% of your traffic because of the pop-ups. No real worries thou, Once you remove the pop-ups the traffic goes back up.
Expected rev..
$1.44 for 1000 (USA) uniques* x 20 =
aprrox.$28.8 per day for your website depending on what countries your visitors come from. Each country has different rates.*http://www.paypopup.com/?ref=spazz896 (aff) min. payout 100$
I hope this helps in your decision.
October 1st, 2008 at 8:32 pm -
Mubin said:
Brad, you cheeky monkey! Dropping your aff link in my comments!
October 2nd, 2008 at 12:16 pm -
Desmond said:
As a reader i dont like pop-up, as a webmaster it will be a great tools to earn CPM income, i still remember few yrs back i am using exitfuel and it give me abt USD10-20 per day. if your website has 20000 unique and 5% of user do not have pop blocker, u will only get 1K impression per day. CPM rate is rather low nowadays.
October 3rd, 2008 at 1:40 am -
lol said:
I love em - they help making money!
October 17th, 2008 at 8:10 pm -
Scorpiono said:
I avoid popups as much as possible, unless you are the #1 in the niche, I won’t use it.
October 18th, 2008 at 12:39 pm -
dollar said:
I wouldn’t touch paypopup with a 10 feet pole, they have xss in the popups, dirty pops. Just yesterday I was viewing a blog with paypopup and it loaded that overlay, (with the green border). Then it said “Warning this an attack site” inside the Ad, (using firefox 3) thats not the kind stuff you want to put on your site.
November 3rd, 2008 at 3:19 am -
Michael Henry said:
I tend to stay away from pop-ups because most browsers block them. The transistion from one page to another ads are also something that have to be used with caution. Well, really, all ad placement depends on your site and the niche.
November 30th, 2008 at 8:28 pm -
tkada.com said:
Obviously, as an viewer I hate Popups that really diverts and hesitate us to go further with our path, and also as an webmaster though it leads to income and I feel it not prevails as such it makes to repels the viewers away from our site the next time or in future.
December 6th, 2008 at 3:58 pm -
Make Money Online Reviews said:
I use popups in the internet marketing niche, they appear to convert pretty well. But I definitely don’t use them in any other niche, as they just tick people off. I don’t know what it is about internet marketers, but they don’t appear to mind popups, especially exit popups. I have used exit popups to promote affiliate products, and it actually seems to work, especially if you promote free products with upsells. Everyone likes free stuff. I have especially used them to promote products like Michael Rasmussen’s Mini Site Profits Exposed and Email Promos Exposed
It’s kind of the opposite of Kontera ads.December 9th, 2008 at 1:01 am
