Do Pop-Ups Influence Google Ranking

Pop ups will bring you down in serps?

[robinponty]

Hi,
I strongly fee that with increasingly opposition of unwanted (or wanted) popups on the site can put you into black list of google. I am talking of the popup that just opens up when you go to any page of the site.

yeah, i know , this is bad from user point of view but what i want to discuss here is that i am sure engines specially google will have a negative score for it while placing yuo in top of SERPs. By launching popup blocker, google has already showed its intention. I know there are a lot of sites which are in top SERPS inspite of having popup but i feel that they have some other factor dominating over the negative score that they got for having popup.
What do you say?
thanks friends..

[martinibuster]

>>>By launching popup blocker, google has already showed its intention.

The intention is to please the user. It was so well received by toolbar users that other search engines are implementing pop-up blockers, too.

[wreck3d]

I honestly doubt popups would have any impact on rankings. There is absolutely no reason why a great page or article would be treated less because it happened to have a popup. The information is still relevant, and prob will be ranked accordingly, regardless if the webmaster would like to get extra pageviews to an ad.

[BigDave]

Of course popups will hurt your rankings. I won't link to you, and neither will lots of other people.

Is google specifically penalizing you for having them? It would be nice, but so far I doubt it.

[stcrim]

Visit Google News and you will be standing at the door of pop-up h*ll. News sites are the worst...

Doubt Google is considering them in their ranking - but who knows what the future may hold?

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[pageoneresults]

This from Google might give you an idea of how much they despise popups. Personally, I suggest getting rid of them. Not only due to a possible downgrade of your site but, users really hate those things. ;)

Are pop-up ads allowed on Google? [google.com]

[Tropical Island]

With all the pop-up blockers now in use they are becoming irrelevant anyway.

Get rid of them.

We have now blocked 2025 pop-ups with our Google tool bar.

[stcrim]

Pop-ups may be a bother but so are commercials on TV, but without them TV wouldn't exist.

I think AdWords on ever site is a bother too, but I'm not writting an AdWord blocker script.

Pop-ups generate revenue and revenue keeps the web alive. If pop-ups didn't sell, they would not be on so many sites - kill them and you will kill those sites too.

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[BigDave]

Popups are hurting real ad revenue too.

The first popup blockers were the ad blocker programs. So, because of x10 ads, many other more benign ad formats are also being blocked out.

[Symbios]

I don't like pop ups but the ones I use are appropriate to the sites content and make me money so I'm not about to ditch them, also I've no evidence to show that they affect rankings at the moment.