Popunder Ads

Does Google penalize site for popunder ads

[JoeHouse]

Wondering if the rumors are true. I have heard that google does not like sites that are involved with popunders ads. Is this true? Does google penalize you if you use them?

Please Advise.

Thanks!

[rfgdxm1]

Not that I am aware of so far. Hopefully they will very soon.

[pleeker]

Does Google penalize site for popunder ads?

Probably not, but (more importantly) users often do.

[BigDave]

I have heard that google does not like sites that are involved with popunders ads.

The Google founders are all in agreement, that pop-unders are annoying, and no, they do not like them.

But then again, nobody likes them, and it will hurt your website in the long run if you use them.

Does google penalize you if you use them?

This is a different question. The answer is probably not.

[Gert_Jan]

No they don't simple as that :)

[ct2000]

I know if you are in the Google Adsense program you will be ejected if you run pop-unders

[rfgdxm1]

>Probably not, but (more importantly) users often do.

And if they use the Google toolbar with pop-up blocking enabled, or one of the many other pop-up blockers, they may never even be aware of you have them on your site.

[pegaweb]

ct2000 - I was using (Fastclick) pop-unders with Adsense. I wasn't kicked off.

I have long-since abandoned pop-unders though :)

[BlueSky]

And if they use the Google toolbar with pop-up blocking enabled, or one of the many other pop-up blockers, they may never even be aware of you have them on your site.

Google's blocker and some of the others provide a little zap as it kills a pop-up/under. For these, visitors will indeed know a site has those annoying things.

[ct2000]

pegaweb - fyi - [webmasterworld.com...]

[lgn]

We tried pop-unders for a while. Big mistake.

It's a great way to get visitors to leave your site. Our visitor retention rate increased 28% after we dropped the popunders.

One thing I have learned; if you f*** with the
user's browsing experince in any way, expect a severe backlash.

That includes:

popups
popunder's
popups on exit (no you can't leave our site until you buy something).
disabling the back button (I can't navigate, so I might as well buy something).

Please feel free to add to my acts of stupidity.

[pegaweb]

Thanks ct2000 :)

I didn't really notice an increase in visitor retention rates (I only had one pop-up for the site), but if there's anything that Google has taught me, it's "BOW DOWN BEFORE THE ONE AND ONLY GOD OF THE INTERNET!" :)

I can do without the $1.50US per day those pop-ups were giving me.

And other annoyances for the list:

- No right-click
- The tiny "news frame" that has some physics-based scrolling algorithm
- Non-standard link colours
- Incomprehensible/multiple navigation systems

[indiandomain]

let me ask this question to you popup haters.
what if you were earning 100$ a day with the pop's
and most of your visitors are never going to come back.

would you still not use popunders?

[BigDave]

I would still not use pop-unders because it is rude, and my mamma raised me better than that.

I would not roll drunks in the park for $100/day, even if I would never meet any of them in the future.

[pegaweb]

indian: I'd use pop-ups in that scenario (assuming that the $100 is because they paid well, not because I had 200,000 visitors per day.)

I see them as being an annoyance, but I don't "hate" them. If they were viable, I'd use them. However, when compared to adsense, they make me a sad, sad panda :)

[dirkz]

For $100 I wouldn't deploy no f****** pop-somethings.