Dec | 20 | 2008

Your Blog And Pop-ups

Posted by Jimmy as Opinion, Plugins, Promotion

I think that pop-ups are one of the most intrusive and most irritating things that you can encounter when visiting a web site. I simply dislike it when I click on a link to visit a blog or a web site and even before I get to see what the site has to offer, I am already being bombarded with some one sort of advertisement or another.

I am sure that I am not the only one who feels this way but then again, I am also pretty sure that there are a lot of people who disagree. After all, didnâ€™t John Chow and Jeremy Shoemoney â€“ both blog royalty in their own right â€“ use pop-ups to increase their newsletter subscriptions? Let me correct myself â€“ they are using pop-ups to promote their newsletters. So there must be something right about using pop-ups for your siteâ€¦

Well for those like me who have an aversion to pop-ups, here is what John Chow said about using pop-ups to the advantage of both the blogger AND the reader:

Adding a Lightbox newsletter sign up box is pretty straight forward. Iâ€™ve made a screen cast on how to do it. So far, Iâ€™ve gotten a few comments about the sign up form but no real complaints because I set the Lightbox to display only once per visitor. In other words, if youâ€™ve been shown the Lightbox, youâ€™ll never see it again unless you delete your cookies.

I set the Lightbox to display only once per visitor â€“ that right there is the key, I believe. Perhaps I will consider using this in the near future. What about you?

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20|Dec|2008

[...] it. You may have already heard it. For a large part of the interview, Godin speaks about concepts Your Blog And Pop-ups – blog-tutorials.com 12/20/2008 I think that pop-ups are one of the most intrusive and most [...]
Angel Seeker
21|Dec|2008

If I could distinguish between a website and an application then I would say that popups are never okay for a website but they might be necessary for an application. Some times you need to help some one fill out your form for instance.
Mike
17|Mar|2009

im going to try one

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