How many pop ups are too much?
We generally use one on exit and that is cycling the traffic to our other program sites for the most part. At times I think that’s too many.

In a pay per signup scenario, the ideas is to sell off the non-buying traffic in order to afford to pay a larger amount up front. And in today’s game I can understand that concept very well. But when a site pops 8 consoles, I have to wonder how good the original site is converting to begin with.

I can say from my own experience that a lot of what I do depends on the traffic I’m getting and how I approach it. For example, on a couple of our phony link sites I will use 2 – an exit and a blur console. It’s a free site and the traffic that I get to them actually converts from the console more than the site. I only added the consoles after I watched how the traffic worked. Since it’s a free site its purpose is to sell, for me. So I need to make it do that.

As annoying as they can be, A pop up has it’s uses. It’s going way beyond one or two that I don’t particularly go for myself – especially when you get into some console chains that take over your entire system, not only a download but the type you have to reboot for. I especially despise those timed pop ups that wait in your cache and pop later.

and why do people have pop ups that install things on your computer?
Why? That one has eluded me for years. Fucking drives me nuts. Whether it’s a dialer program or a freaking adware, I find this the most intrusive and annoying of all tactics.

I never liked using pop ups on any sites we did. And for a long time I avoided it like the plague. Even when I put one on a traffic site or phony tgp, I still cringe; and that’s after I’ve analyzed that traffic and know it’s the only way I can get them to buy.

My pennies for the fountain…

Gary-Alan