Opinons on pop-ups

[kaus]

Alot of the gambling rooms offer pop-ups on entrance of your site or even exiting. I personally feel that these are tacky and annoying. When I do come across a site that has this enabled I leave.

So I am curious what opinons are on this feature. I have seen some big sites who use this and am not sure if it would be worth my while or if many people feel the same way as I do with them

[Brandon]

I will never have a popup asking to download while viewing my site. I think they are very tacky, and I can't stand going to places like absoulute or UB and getting that pop up.

I think it really loses the value of the site.

[ThePokerBank]

I am almost always going to click 'x' on any pop-ups before I read them. I feel pop-ups are there to try and sell you something you dont want or are not interested in anyway. Its just an anoyance for me and makes me think less of the site.

I wouldnt advise you use them, but then again I am not speaking for the majority of visitors that would be coming to your site. Maybe if the pop-up included something that visitors may be genuinely interested in and didnt look tacky, then maybe it wouldnt be so bad.

[pokerforfree]

I basically hate pop ups, and have a blocker enabled to avoid them.

Though, an idea could be a div element that has display:block, and can be closed by your visitors, or by a time limit. I also like the advertising that's used on xwww.sitepoint.com, placed at the bottom of a browser.

[CoolDog]

PartyPoker has a pop-up mentioning a $200.00 bonus offer from EmpirePoker after the page loads and when a person wants to leave the site. It appears as though that it is some kind of AdWare. Now I get a bunch of these pop-ups on my Desktop every day.




I can't believe Party does this:

1) It discourages visitors from using Party affiliate bonus codes because they don't compare to the Empire Bonus offer.

2) The Empire pop-up is AdWare. This is so disreputable.

So to answer your question; I hate pop-ups. I rarely stick around a site when I am constantly closing pop-ups whenever I visit a page on a site.

See my thread here on the Party pop-up subject:
http://www.pokeraffiliateworld.com/f...e-problem.html

I've emailed Party last week and no response.

CoolDog

[kaus]

LOL I emailed Party about a spammer I have a couple of times now. I don't think they care cause he's still doing it.

[edmc]

empire/hollywood/party/pacific are popping up constantly. Cant find the dam things to get them off. I dont mind the occassional pop-up to join a sites mailer but shit that attatches itself to a computer is disguisting. Im gonna track these people down and feed them to my cat

[Zilla]

This is an interesting topic.

I would never use a conventional pop-up as I think it damages your sites reputation.

Some of the newer pop-up's that popup on your actual website page, rather than an actual seperate window are more reputable, and could be used with care.

But I have been to a number of sites where they have an actual pop-up in a seperate window behind their site which is their actual affiliate link to party poker or similar and I've always wondered about the cookie tracking on this.

Although it is unlikely that someone would sign up there and then and wouldn't be very happy at the pop-up, but presumably the cookie gets placed and if that person opens an account at a later stage it would be credited back to the dodgy pop-up affiliate would it not?

[J S]

I've never used any pop-ups if personally if i visit a site that has pop-ups I make a point not to go back...

On the other hand, I have seen some very good pop ups that are designed to collect email addresses. Usually it is a newsletter sign up or something along those lines. Do any of you guys use pop-ups for this? Any success?