Popups: which one works better?

[steveaaa]

I am looking at adding popups to my sites to capture emails.

Which one works better in your experience:
-popups that roll in in a window but don't obscure the screen
-popups that gray the screen
-the ones that show as a horizontal ribbon at the bottom of your screen

thanks!

[G Singh]

What you could do is test all of them if possible and see which works best. I think the horizontal ribbon would be less intrusive personally.

Gurpreet

[xu1]

Try the simple non intrusive DHTML ones.

Tony

[steveaaa]

Intrusive is not necessary bad I guess I have to run a split test to see the traffic drop off vs. signup rates. I was hoping someone has done that here.

[steveaaa]

Basically adsense drop (my rev. base) vs. registrations via split test.

[xu1]

Originally Posted by steveaaa

Intrusive is not necessary bad I guess I have to run a split test to see the traffic drop off vs. signup rates. I was hoping someone has done that here.

You are right of course, I should have clarified it, I meant something that doesen't freeze your browser while it's loading..

Regardless of some negative comments you may get about popups, they are good for promoting offers.


Tony

[cmaclean]

I like this one: UltimateFooterAd.com

[steveaaa]

Originally Posted by cmaclean

I like this one: UltimateFooterAd.com

I really like these too, thanks for the link (I had forgotten where to find them). I ran something similar on a shopping site of mine and it did not work very well - although it should have. Have you tried it?

[mikeyman120]

Originally Posted by xu1

Try the simple non intrusive DHTML ones.

Tony

Yes! Like instantpopover. I use it and love it. I have it on many of my sites and it helps with the sign ups. It is a hover pop up so it doesn't open in a new window and is unstoppable from pop up blockers.

Mike

[steveaaa]

Thanks Mike. I have InstantPopover but have not deployed it yet. Should look into it.

I like the idea of action popup, which grays the screen, and forces the user to either signup, click on close button (or leave, I guess), but have not tried that one yet.

[abelacts]

It's not a question of whether you like it or not, it's more of which one has the best conversion rate. From my experience, the second option works best. I just simply use what Aweber is offering, nothing fancy. I had tried top ad and footer ad, they don't fare equally well as the popup with greyed out background. No matter what, testing is the only way to find out.