Given most people's negative reaction to popups, I don't allow them in my Free Traffic Bar advertising system. But I still get people trying to place ads to sites that include them almost every day. Garland Coulson, The E-Business Tutor www.freetrafficbar.com
Ok ... I see a future for flash site but only for the websites like Disney when there is no problem in getting a lot of traffic even without SEO. I agree they look very good but I don't see how will the big G solve the problem of indexing them. Maybe anyone of you has any ideas about this fact ... ????
Why also not think like a visitor to ANY website. Most visitors absolutely hate and try to avoid pop ups at all costs. There are the newbies that dont know how to stop them and i guess that this is where the webmasters are making money. No problem about making money but hey does evrything internet have to be subversive, as far as webmastering goes. Clever is better dont you think. Please dont take my answer as directed at you or accusive either. Its just that i have seen so many surfers, suffer with pop ups and the like, worst now is the flash pop up which, at times, cannot be easily stopped. I guess you can tell that i also hate them too.
I won't take it ... don't worry. I hate popups too, but just as an user. As you already said there are still many newbies who get to see those popups and even click on them so ... here is how I think: if you are an experienced user, then you won't have problems blocking my popups even before they appear so you won't have problems in this area. Nebies will benefit from my popups, because they will learn how to stop them (or not) and many other things related to the computer security. What I really hate is those guys who deliberately place popus to infect their user's computer. This is very bad and its not ok at all.