Originally Posted by knuckles
Is there a downside to having pop-ups on the website, other than higher bounce rate? I've read that this year, Yandex - biggest russian search engine, starts giving penalties if pop-ups obstruct the content, anything similar in Google?
I would love to think there is a massive downside to popups / overlays or what ever you wish to call it.anything that forces users into some action even if that is close is bad news for the user.
However google have to be careful here of double standards, youtube for example very often force the user into watching a advert before viewing the content they wanted.
I have seen a trend of late of delayed popups on sites which I guess is in an attempt to get past any google detection, if google are working on a solution for this I wish they would hurry up as they are a really pain in the ar$%