Sending your traffic to a squeeze page still working for you?

I've always achieved FAR better success overall with a signup box in the top, right-hand corner of my blog, great content, and a reminder at the foot of most (not all) posts, suggesting that visitors sign up to my newsletter.

But having said that, the majority of my visitors arrive at my blog not from Google searches, but because they've read my content on other niche relevant websites, so they arrive looking for more information. A squeeze-page would no doubt be a huge turn-off for them.

I think it would really depend on your readership. Like AnniePot said above, I think a pop-up or squeeze page would turn off my readers. They are most likely finding me because they want more information. If all they see is a big pop-up or something, I worry that they'll turn away or say "no thanks" rather than sign up.

I haven't done any sort of split testing or anything like that to test this, mind you. And maybe it's about my own absolute aversion to pop-ups and anything else that interferes with my ability to get to the page I was trying to get to.

I guess if my readers are anything like me, which is possibly why they like my site in the first place, they may not like it either.

Perhaps I still need to test this, but I'm still in the process of creating a freebie-giveaway for the sign-up. I'm more willing to work on that to grow my list and making my email responder series great rather than work on a squeeze page right now.

*I realize this thread isn't about pop-ups, but I really don't want to block my readers from getting to the page they are looking for.*

I don't have data to back this up, but here's why I put mine in the upper right...

How do people read English-language web content? Top to bottom, left to right, yes?

So I put mine where the eye will linger - on the right, next to the scroll bar and just above the navigation. Like Anne, I put either an abbreviated opt-in form or a reminder to use the one at the top after most posts.

If you wanted to split test for this, you'd need two identical pages, with the only difference being the opt-in on the right or left. Send traffic to each until you have enough data to draw a conclusion or until you get 100 signups on one option. The 100 signup option is so you don't end up running an endless test if the results are too close to matter. You'd also have to code the signups so you knew if they came from the right or left options.

So you're saying it may depend more on what type of page they are coming from on whether they might be expecting to give their information somewhere (or not)? That makes some sense.

I have increased my optin rate the day i have reformulated my words to give a good enough reason to opt-in.

Asking to opt-in without a good enough reason may be perceived as trying to get the email rather than to provide a valuable service to the interested person.

Try to see the page as one of your visitor will see it, does it look like a useful service or does it look like a spam/ad system ?

I also put my opt-in form after an article or a video.