Okay, let’s start things off with a rant. You know those websites that stop you from leaving by way of an exit popup that you must acknowledge before you can leave? It’s a common tool used by internet marketers. Usually it says “Wait! I have a special gift for you on the next page” or they are offering you a $10 discount off of what they are selling. I was approving ads at one of my websites last nite and I came across a website that had SIX exit popups! I was totally blown away. That is just plain overkill and serves no other purpose than to piss off your website visitors. Every time I acknowledged an exit pop another one would appear and then another and I could not leave that site until I had clicked to acknowledge all six of them.  Needless to say I declined that ad as I will not subject my members to that kind of tactic. Two exit pops is plenty.

I am not going to name the site in question but it has now been banned from every site in my network. I figure if you have to resort to that to sell whatever it is you are flogging then you need a new product or you need to hire a professional copywriter. Not only that your site would be banned from Traffic Exchanges and Safelists so you limit your affiliate’s ability to promote your product

I certainly would not buy from a site that subjected me to that. That brought back memories of the “good ol’ days” where popups and popunders were everywhere and everytime you closed one popup another one or two or three would appear. Thankfully we all have popup blockers in our web browsers or toolbars.