Pop-ups ok for SEO?
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Are unintrusive pop-ups okay or is Google likely to impose a black mark?
I'm not talking about making people stay on the site, just talking about little one corner pop-up for a special offer.
An example would be an embedded live chat pop-up.
Have you had any experience?
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Hi,
They shouldn't hurt the rankings directly. However, the user experience from my point of view would be horrible. No matter how tasteful they are done, they always annoy me. I just finished up writing a SEO article this morning, and I remember vividly advising against this.
Hope it helps,
Don
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Agreed. No SEO ding directly, but as donford said, be careful that you don't mess up UX. One thing to be aware of. If you use a 3rd party to host the pop-up, it can slow down the site if the script blocks the downloading of other assets on your page. You could then have a page speed issue that can indirectly cause issues with SEO.