Popups

Just wondering if anyone knows if popups effect ranking in google?

As for I know, enduser dislikes popup, so it may lead you to have bounce rate. Obviously bounce rate will effect your SERP.

So my answer would be YES.

Yes, they do unless you use a lightbox style of popup.

Nickalexkrier,

Its probably safe to say that yes, popups negatively affect your rankings. Google disapproves ads for landing pages that have popups, their tool bar has a popup blocker built in and popups generally do not contain quality content.

Check out this post on why Google may not like popups,

http://www.seoptimise.com/blog/2008/05/do-popups-have-a-negative-effect-on-google-rankings.html

Hope that helps,

Shawn