Pages with pop-ups will rank lower soon

jamie3000 · Sep 28, 2016

If I understand these sources correctly pages with pop-ups will rank lower soon. Be interesting to see how list builders overcome this. I mean will a delay on the pop-up just stop Google detecting it?

https://webmasters.googleblog.com/2016/08/helping-users-easily-access-content-on.html?m=1

http://blog.hubspot.com/marketing/google-pop-up-mobile-marketing#sm.00001ohcsaax9jeu1yz7j7z06hc02

blogzandstuff · Sep 28, 2016

i don't use them on my sites as i find them annoying, pop up blockers along with ad blockers are making it increasingly difficult now for site owners to earn now

Capo Dei Capi · Sep 28, 2016

blogzandstuff said:
i don't use them on my sites as i find them annoying, pop up blockers along with ad blockers are making it increasingly difficult now for site owners to earn now

Spammy IM'rs and Retarded Ad networks are the reason why adblockers are being used so often now. People load up way too many ads, and slow pages down so people have to use an adblock to load page well. And some networks like Clicksor don't really give a fuck and they been allowing malware ads for about 10 years now.

blogzandstuff · Sep 28, 2016

yes i agree, i have been on sites when researching and bam a popup, close it scroll down and another bloody popup, then my screen flashes and they've loaded a popunder, so i installed adblockers to stop it.
I don't use adverts on my sites now due to just about everyone getting adblockers, even facebook announced they were fighting them.
Website owners will have to stop being lazy now and find more creative ways of making money from their sites

Capo Dei Capi · Sep 28, 2016

blogzandstuff said:
yes i agree, i have been on sites when researching and bam a popup, close it scroll down and another bloody popup, then my screen flashes and they've loaded a popunder, so i installed adblockers to stop it.
I don't use adverts on my sites now due to just about everyone getting adblockers, even facebook announced they were fighting them.
Website owners will have to stop being lazy now and find more creative ways of making money from their sites

On Mobile, I have been to some pretty major news sites and they have had the fake virus popup ads.

blogzandstuff · Sep 28, 2016

Capo Dei Capi said:
On Mobile, I have been to some pretty major news sites and they have had the fake virus popup ads.

i have seen those sort of things, i wondered if they were like jacking.

0xxi3 · Sep 28, 2016

This isn't really fresh news. Heard about it a long time ago. What I'm interested in is how Google is going to detect annoying ad popups and separate them from e.g. login popups, image lightboxes and similar useful elements.

kingvestor · Sep 29, 2016

blogzandstuff said:
i don't use them on my sites as i find them annoying, pop up blockers along with ad blockers are making it increasingly difficult now for site owners to earn now

What if I advert my own business ? Is it still considered as an Ad by google or AdBlockers ?

blogzandstuff · Sep 29, 2016

kitamain said:
What if I advert my own business ? Is it still considered as an Ad by google or AdBlockers ?

the way you can get round adblockers is to save the banner as a graphic and link from that.

Freddyjames · Sep 29, 2016

If that is the case, that pages with popups will lose rank, then the NYT, Washington Post, Shape, Cosmo, in fact every huge site on the internet is fucked.

Popups are dead guys. Next will be opt-ins to create a list, or any site mentioning the word "subscribe", you heard it here first.

If only there was a way to make popups less "intrusive".....

freqee · Sep 29, 2016

For years I have heard that this or that is going to kill rankings, then you look at the top sites and they do all these supposed "bad" things.

I think this is all a mental game. Google knows that people build their sites to what they think Google likes, so if Google leaks some info that pop-ups are bad, half of the people out there will take them off their sites. Plus on forums like this, it will get repeated that pop ups hurt your rankings etc. Then right there Google has reduced pop ups by half and they never really did anything.

Zwielicht · Sep 29, 2016

Capo Dei Capi said:
Spammy IM'rs and Retarded Ad networks are the reason why adblockers are being used so often now. People load up way too many ads, and slow pages down so people have to use an adblock to load page well. And some networks like Clicksor don't really give a fuck and they been allowing malware ads for about 10 years now.

For a long time, I never bothered with Adblockers as most of the sites I went to were reasonable. However, about a year ago when I joined a popular Mercedes forum, the pages loaded so slowly due to the vast number of in-content and sidebar ads that the only way I could browse the site was with an Adblocker.

duomaxwell · Sep 29, 2016

Freddyjames said:
If that is the case, that pages with popups will lose rank, then the NYT, Washington Post, Shape, Cosmo, in fact every huge site on the internet is fucked.

Popups are dead guys. Next will be opt-ins to create a list, or any site mentioning the word "subscribe", you heard it here first.

If only there was a way to make popups less "intrusive".....

You're right about that. So many blogs ask for your email (dumb idea) and then sell it to advertisers. Hopefully Google punishes sites that use that tactic. I'm expecting them to punish smaller content image based sites soon. So many people just create sites that just aggregate reddit.

blogzandstuff · Sep 29, 2016

Freddyjames said:
If that is the case, that pages with popups will lose rank, then the NYT, Washington Post, Shape, Cosmo, in fact every huge site on the internet is fucked.

Popups are dead guys. Next will be opt-ins to create a list, or any site mentioning the word "subscribe", you heard it here first.

If only there was a way to make popups less "intrusive".....

They are not the biggest sites for nothing, they'll find a way round it

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