Are all those Dhtml, Hover, Slide in, unblockable pop up ads effective? Example of what I'm talking about: free pop up creator Do they really help to build a mailing list and promote new products? Or do they just irritate site visitors?
Those ads that pop up, slide around, follow the scroll, etc are just an big irritation for me. Why I don't use them at all on any of my sites. The so-called gurus say that they work, but who has the proof? I think they just turn off visitors who have to hunt on some of the sliders, etc for the way to turn them off, if they can be turned off. Irritation for me, loss of a sale for the site that uses them. The latest thing is this: you go to the site, and you click a link to go to another page. But before heading to the page you want, the page that comes up has an ad! You have to click "skip the ad" to get to the page you wanted. Another damn irritation!
massive irritation............. don't use that!! if i see that kind of popups i don't take the site seriously anymore