Email Overlay - POP UP

[JustinGeeks]

We launched a site wide implementation of an email overlay with a 10 second delay.

Go to http://www.geeks.com to see it live.

Looking at our crawl stats in Google webmaster tools I noticed our pages crawled per day is way down, kilobytes downloaded per day is down, and time spent downloading a page is up.

Could these metrics be of a result of this overlay?

Thank you in advance.

-MB

[EricaMcGillivray]

If this is popping up on every page, it's definitely affecting your site load time and your freshness factor. Also, if that's the first thing Google's reads, they could start thinking that all your pages are the same. While generally, cloaking content from Google is a bad thing, having this pop-up not be indexed by Google may help with your current problem.

[JustinGeeks]

We removed and crawl rate seemed to normalize.  I believe we know what the cause was.  (some of the CSS code)

Thanks for the response.

[EricaMcGillivray]

CSS can definitely get in your way. Glad to hear that your rate has normalized now.