Comments on: What Do You Think Of Pop-Over Opt-In Boxes?

By: Jermaine Fitzgerald

Jermaine Fitzgerald — Sun, 14 Dec 2008 18:05:53 +0000

I have pop over optin on all my sites and it get me more subscription witch leads to more traffic and less. It works for me.

By: George Manty

George Manty — Fri, 05 Dec 2008 17:45:07 +0000

Trent,

Thanks for speaking up. It is making such a huge difference in my daily subscriber rate that I am finding it hard to justify moving away from. I may test other options though…

By: Trent Brownrigg

Trent Brownrigg — Fri, 05 Dec 2008 16:37:13 +0000

They annoy me. However, if it was a blog/site I liked it wouldn’t deter me from coming back. I would just close it and keep reading.

The ones that really get to me are the ones that pop up ever time you go to a new page or come back to the home page. It should only come up once per session.

By: Mitch

Mitch — Sun, 16 Nov 2008 02:59:41 +0000

I absolutely hate popups and popunders, and I keep trying different products to try to stop them from occurring. Since that doesn’t occur, I just stop visiting those blogs as often. At least in my Feedreader program, I can actually see the entire post without having to deal with them, but it keeps me from commenting as often.

By: Wilson Pon

Wilson Pon — Sat, 15 Nov 2008 10:19:16 +0000

If it’s only a single pop-up, then I still can accept it…

I hated those sites that full with multiples pop-ups, as it’s really irritating indeed!

By: Ian Fernando

Ian Fernando — Thu, 13 Nov 2008 17:05:09 +0000

can be annoying at times but as long there is a cookie to do it on first timers and never again (unless I clean my pc) then I am fine.

By: David

David — Wed, 12 Nov 2008 07:38:42 +0000

I don’t recall seeing your pop-up. I know you can have it pop-up the first few times they visit. Maybe 2 times would be best??? It can definitely be irritating though – don’t really like them, but it does FORCE someone to take an action of some sort or another.

By: Lazy Slacker

Lazy Slacker — Wed, 12 Nov 2008 05:55:17 +0000

Depends if it pops up every time I visit.

I use a pop up box on my blog – but you only get it the first time that you visit. And even then it doesn’t pop up right away – takes about a minute.

Not an issue for me.

Plus, I read most of my blogs via rss reader. The pop up box is not even an issue.

By: Abdulrehman

Abdulrehman — Wed, 12 Nov 2008 01:40:49 +0000

Pop overs are extremely annoying, i would never tolerate them!

By: George Manty

George Manty — Tue, 11 Nov 2008 19:29:40 +0000

Andrew,

Interesting… I had not thought of that as a possibility…

By: Andrew

Andrew — Tue, 11 Nov 2008 18:04:31 +0000

Darn you, I realised after I answered the poll (leave and never come back) that I had already seen the popup and closed it without even noticing it was there. I imagine that isn’t a true answer then.

Perhaps you should have included a, “What pop up? Oh, well too late now”, option

By: George Manty

George Manty — Tue, 11 Nov 2008 15:35:03 +0000

Update: Looks like Daniel’s poll just closed. The results are interesting. Will talk about them later…