Popups good or bad ?

[dotcomguy]

Popups are really bad or is there any possible designing technique for making creative popups for your web-hosting advertising ? Also lets share your experiences on popup blocking softwares and methods of removing them.

 

[peter phillips]

I think Pop-ups appearing on any website are really annoying. Pop-up ads take away the credibility of a good site. Many first time visitors to a site would not return to a site due to pop-ups appearing.

For details on pop-up blockers visit the link http://www.download.com/Pop-Up-Blockers/3150-7786_4-0.html

 

[cyberturk]

they are very bad. Pages with pop-ups are annoying people and goole like search sites block this sites.

 

[lcryan]

bad big no no

 

[webfreak]

Popups are just annoying. Browser based popup control should block most of them.

 

[Sachiel]

CPM affiliate networks are using popups and paying around $2-5 per 1000 unique hit. Why ? If popups are just annoying, why these networks still paying for these popup and popunder ads ?

 

[cpengineer]

Here are some guidelines for all types of popups:

• Wait for users to ask for the popup; don’t pop them up automatically.
• Make sure that the popup box is between a quarter and a third of the window size. Too small and the user won’t see them; too large and they’ll cover too much of the screen.
• Don’t reuse the same popup unless you can make sure that it comes to the front of the screen each time.

 

[goosexp2asia]

CPM affiliate networks are using popups and paying around $2-5 per 1000 unique hit. Why ? If popups are just annoying, why these networks still paying for these popup and popunder ads ?

Simple. They are collecting e-mail address in order to protect themselves from spam accuse. Most of the CPM affiliate networks use false stats information about your site. If you send 10 K traffic into their CPM advertiser, probably you will see 1 k or less affiliate stats. Thus, it must be $0.2-0.5 for each 1k visitors instead of $2-5 CPM. They are cheating the publishers. However, you can find some fair networks if you search deeply.

 

[kiz9999]

pop ups have got a very bad rap. i would never use them on my website.

 

[siteseer]

yes cpengineer is right again, wait for the user prompt. Popups usually suggest to me an insecure portal, my radar goes off if i have extra windows suddenyl open.

 

[techpresence]

Well, if pop ups were good why would they make blockers for them? . The only pop-ups I allow my Site(s) to have are "roll over" popups

Cheers,

 

[imported_sam]

Pop ups have their uses... i.e. we use them in our client support area for clients tutorials, etc.

Here is a link for a great article on how to create perfect popups. Enjoy!

http://www.sitepoint.com/article/perfect-pop-up/2