May you direct me to a place that I can get an exit pop-under window script?
You're just asking for trouble admitting you plan on using pop-unders around here... ;)
But have you tried searching Google for "exit console script" or "exit window script"?
Obviously I won't use them on my main sites where I'm looking for repeat visitors, but on doorway pages etc. it makes sense.
My opinion is if anybody wants quality they can subscribe to sites that charge for content. If they are not willing to fork up for the Wall St. Journal website etc., then they'll have to suffer the likes of my websites which will hit them with pop-ups, pop-unders and God-knows-what-else as soon as they enter...
They might be nasty, but they work. With the almost daily reductions in earnings from banner impressions and affiliate commissions, we have to be more creative and ruthless to survive... and if that means pop-unders then I have no qualms about it.
Sorry...
I guess one problem is that if there are lots of sites like yours, people will assume all free sites use such methods, and would'nt visit them. Quick way i guess to enourage free sites to become subscription sites, or to make people look for other media for information rather than the Web and drive them away.
You may think (and are right!) that you can do whatever you want as long as its legal. Becuase you have one time visit sites, I can understand why annoying people is not an issue. But it does affect the reputation of the Web for all of us.
I've been in the affiliate biz. for three years and have tried to be whiter than white - and had very little success. I have *never* linked to nude, semi-nude or gambling sites - and as you all know those are the biggest payers.
Until recently I didn't even advertise CDs and videos on my sites because I wanted to promote 'educational' products, quality books, and saw Hollywood movies and the like to be unwholesome and the cause of much of America's woes.
I spent hours finding affiliate programs that didn't sell any seedy products. Take magazines. Virtually every magazine subscription site earns most of its revenue from selling Playboy, Maxim etc. I picked Magmall deliberately because they were family-friendly and didn't promote magazines which have naked women splashed all over them.
Not many other webmasters have those kind of morals.
I'm not saying I'm better than anybody else, but I think earning revenue from selling Playboy and Penthouse, which most webmasters wouldn't have qualms about, is far less moral than pop-ups.
And when I use pop-ups, on my commercial sites, the revenue from them just goes towards subsidising my quality projects. I run one of the net's premier free literary and intellectual ezines [URL snipped. NFFC]. I spend one week a month on it, full-time (and my full-time I mean 14 hours a day), and earn about 50 cents from ads in it. The pop-ups pay for my bread and milk. I'll remove them if anybody cares to subsidise my ezine which contains quality content and aims to promote literature and learning and has debates on subjects other than the size of Britney Spears' boobs.
