Comments on: “Should I use those annoying popups?”

By: Will

Will — Mon, 01 Jan 2018 17:21:56 +0000

First time I’ve seen this site, landed here from a search on how to get rid of the ultra-annoying full-page popups CNN has started to put on every story. Immediately I get a large popup, in front of a conversation about the wonder of popups.

All I got from this thread is a mental bookmark to instantly close the page if I ever by accident wind up here again on any subject whatsoever. I might wind up doing the same for CNN. Yeah, popups work — to alienate a reader forever.

By: M.Casey

M.Casey — Mon, 26 Sep 2016 19:08:54 +0000

I do not stay on a page that immediately slaps me in the face with a popup.
I google the topic that had me interested enough to click on the link.
Find a link without popups.
So much information in the web about social triggers.

By: M.Casey

M.Casey — Mon, 26 Sep 2016 18:57:20 +0000

I hate your pop up. 🙂

By: Haydrion Rayel

Haydrion Rayel — Wed, 13 Apr 2016 14:28:11 +0000

and because I hate popups, I can’t even spell ..
post above is Those popups not thohs

By: Haydrion Rayel

Haydrion Rayel — Wed, 13 Apr 2016 14:26:39 +0000

I have thohs plugins too, but I will not use them on my website, reason why is simple .. I really hate it when you are try to read a post on some website and 2 seconds later a popup shows up in the middle of the post with .. like us on facebook. My attention to read the post will be gone in no time

By: JIm

JIm — Thu, 07 Apr 2016 23:02:33 +0000

Popups and email marketing is designed to pray on people with low intelligence.

By: Bart

Bart — Fri, 29 Jan 2016 07:04:31 +0000

Look at all these douchebags talking about getting ready to implement their popup shit! Say goodbye to whatever tiny readership you have now, because as soon as you implement that crap, you’ll lose whoever you have plus any prospective members!

I use AdBlock which blocks all of that crap. I never see the shit you people shove down visitors hard drives 🙂

If you use ABP, you’re only two clicks away from permanently eliminating any popup crap, overlay shit or anything else these blog drones want to inflict upon you. Search for Ad Block Plus (free) and say goodbye to these idiotic annoyances and anything else you don’t want to see on a web page! Personally, I block everything but the article I’m reading, including that floating nav bar shit, right column crap and all social media “share” shit!

With ABP, click, click, poof! All annoying shit gone forever!

By: Justin

Justin — Sat, 19 Dec 2015 20:24:25 +0000

Please don’t.

Instead you should consider writing really great engaging content that people want to hear more about and will subscribe anyway.

Please, don’t be that site.

By: Tim

Tim — Tue, 20 Oct 2015 14:51:58 +0000

I can’t say that pop ups don’t work. According to these studies, I guess they must, right?

But I almost never even see what the pop up is trying to sell me. I am too busy looking for that microscopic X. And if the pop up seems extra flashy, I don’t even bother with the X. I just navigate the hell out of there.

Where are these people the pop ups actually work on? I have yet to meet one.

By: Sylviane Nuccio

Sylviane Nuccio — Mon, 09 Feb 2015 21:29:17 +0000

Hi Derek,

Great point and I agree with you 100%.

The reason why I found your post is that I’m about to turn on my first pop up in a couple of days, and I decided to do some research and see what people had to say about popups.

I know there’s lots of controversy on the subject.

The first post I landed on was a post from Copyblogger from someone who said having even received hate mails because of her pop up to the point of taking it down.

Now, I don’t care who they are, but I don’t want to do business with anyone sending hate mail to anybody. So that alone would not make me turn my pop up off.

I will be writing my own blog post about this very interesting and rather hot topic. Either way, more and more people do get pop ups on their blog.

~Sylviane