The Annoyance Of PopUps on a Blog!

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Karen Woodham

Karen Woodham is the founder and owner of Blazing Minds (The Number One North Wales Blog for Entertainment) an avid blogger of all sorts of interesting and odd things. She is also a Film Reviewer at her local cinema, where she reviews the latest movies, she also covers local and national events and is a bit of a local celebrity.

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Now some of you may have read my post here on ComLuv “Music On Blogs! Is It Really Necessary?” so continuing on from that post I thought I’d pick on PopUps this time.

As with music automatically starting on blog, my other pet hate is PopUps on blogs and one which seems to be popping up everywhere at the moment is one called Popup Domination and it’s so annoying.

Why PopUps Annoy People

I like to visit a blog and read it’s content and then usually drop a comment before carrying on to some other posts that I think sound quite interesting, but the one thing that puts me off is the usage of these very annoying popups.

Ok it’s not too bad on the home page, but it still annoys me, but to have a popup show up after you click on the blog post, then again when you’ve entered a comment and then again when you click on another blog post. AAARRGGGHHHH

Don’t get me wrong, not all bloggers that are using Popup Domination do this, but some do and those are the ones I can’t stand, suffice to say, I don’t go back to their blogs again.

But it’s not only popup domination that annoys me, it’s also the use of other types of popups, like

a new browser window opening as soon as you arrive at the blog, trying to sell you something, or a window that will popup when you leave the site, asking you if you are sure, then after clicking yes, it asks you again, STOP! If we didn’t want to leave the page then we wouldn’t would we.

What Should Bloggers Do With Their PopUps?

I’m going to be polite here, but I personally think that these annoying PopUps should be placed where the sun doesn’t shine, you know where I mean

Stop your PopUps from annoying your readers, if you have a plugin, try to set it so that it only comes on with the first visit from your visitors, not EVERY TIME. It’s sure fire way of losing people from your blog.

What Should You Do As A Visitor?

If you get a constant flow of PopUps or even a few times, then take the time to comment on the blog, but add something like “You’re lucky I commented with your annoying PopUp on this blog!”

Hopefully that should let them know that people are getting annoyed by them.

Stepping On Toes!

Now I know, I really do, that I have probably upset some people that are using PopUps and I do apologise, but for those using them wisely and taking the time to have them set cookies so that a visitor doesn’t get the PopUp all the time then I salute you, to the other, GET RID OF THEM or at least tweak them!

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