Why bother with Pop-Ups anymore?

95% of security programs block them. Not to mention the browsers security.

Pop-ups are so Web 0.5

KP

I hate popup and believe everyone feels the same. Moreover, as KP said - most of the browsers, toolbars and anti internet security tools have the built-in technology to stop popups.

Most of popups either have adwares, nudity or screensavers - nothing is needed by anyone.

So revenue model based on popup is a totally fruitless plan though popup CTR is very high but visitor should be your target ... don't ever think for it. I don't visit pop-up site once I discover that fact.

Same here, it was annoyingforcing the visitors to visit their advertisement.. If I were you I wouldn't even think about it

You can use javascript to create pop-up effects that isn't normally stopped by security software - obviously they need javascript turned on. User friendly Pop under ads, interstitials with CSS, DOM and JavaScript

Don't be tempted to put Adsense in these, you will get banned.

I do use this myself, although not a lot.

Tony

dont use it
place a banner instead

They are annoying, so don't bother using those silly pop ups. Browsers will just block those and you won't get any revenue if it happens.

YEah. I hate those blasted things that keep popping on my screen and do anything to prevent them.

A site that has pop ups is a real turn off for me and from a personal point of view - I will walk away from it if it is not one of the very big websites!

I would forget Popups, total waste of time in my books, not only do most browsers already block them but its annoying to the end user.

I think having pop ups in your site will give you a bad image from visitors. This will give them reasons to just close the window of your site because they become annoyed seeing them.