will my google ranking be affected if i show a popup,popunder

[indiandomain]

guys
im thinking of showing an exit popup on my PR6 site.
will it affect my google ranking?
its going to be a javascript.

thanks
sohail

[indiandomain]

can someone help me with this please.
:)

[djgreg]

wrong thread! sorry

[Mohamed_E]

I have read nothing which suggests that Google penalizes for popups. Currently they do not seem to look at any "quality of surfing experience" factors, just content.

But remember that an increasing number of users are using popup blockers.

[indiandomain]

guys sorry if this is a wrong thread.
but i had a genuine question.

the reason i asked was because ive read that sometimes google penalizes for using javascripts.
infact ive read something like that on this board.

brett you can push this thread off.

thanks guys.

[skipfactor]

ive read that sometimes google penalizes for using javascripts.

Bad or cluttered JS might adversely affect the spidering/ranking of your site, but I've never read of a 'penalty' for using it for legitimate purposes.

I believe AdWords won't take sites w/ popups, and I wouldn't submit to Yahoo with them active, and like Mohamed_E says, many users won't see that pop-up these days.

Look for the worst-case-scenario, which is: nobody will see the popup, and everybody hates them, and somebody might penalize for them someday, so come up with another catch.