Do Popunders Effect SEO?

[dave90210]

Just wondering if you place popunders on your blog if they effect your search traffic?

[CyberHustler]

[st0ned]

Popunders have not effected my rankings however they will annoy the surfers.

[Kelli58]

That's not true. ANY code of any kind you put on your site has an effect in one way or another. It could effect keyword density. It could cause your site to be a part of the "above the fold" punishment recently handed out by Google.

On the surface they may not seem to matter but every single bit of code no matter how big or small matters.

[st0ned]

Originally Posted by Kelli58

That's not true. ANY code of any kind you put on your site has an effect in one way or another. It could effect keyword density. It could cause your site to be a part of the "above the fold" punishment recently handed out by Google.

On the surface they may not seem to matter but every single bit of code no matter how big or small matters.

While I guess this is true for the most part, I have NEVER had a site move lower in the rankings after adding my popunder code, nor experienced a loss of traffic.

I never add it to my new sites though, only my older more established sites.

[baddog]

I would expect a negative effect.

[Colmike9]

What about hosting the code as a .js file and calling it as: <SCRIPT LANGUAGE="JavaScript" SRC="scriptname.js">
</SCRIPT> since G doesn't read js?

[Colmike9]

I like this popunder code since it doesn't get blocked, btw:

<SCRIPT>
var puShown = false;
var PopWidth = (screen.width);
var PopHeight = (screen.height);
var PopFocus = 0;
var _Top = null;

function GetWindowHeight() {
var myHeight = 0;
if( typeof( _Top.window.innerHeight ) == 'number' ) {
myHeight = _Top.window.innerHeight;
} else if( _Top.document.documentElement && _Top.document.documentElement.clientHeight ) {
myHeight = _Top.document.documentElement.clientHeight;
} else if( _Top.document.body && _Top.document.body.clientHeight ) {
myHeight = _Top.document.body.clientHeight;
}
return myHeight;
}
function GetWindowWidth() {
var myWidth = 0;
if( typeof( _Top.window.innerWidth ) == 'number' ) {
myWidth = _Top.window.innerWidth;
} else if( _Top.document.documentElement && _Top.document.documentElement.clientWidth ) {
myWidth = _Top.document.documentElement.clientWidth;
} else if( _Top.document.body && _Top.document.body.clientWidth ) {
myWidth = _Top.document.body.clientWidth;
}
return myWidth;
}
function GetWindowTop() {
return (_Top.window.screenTop != undefined) ? _Top.window.screenTop : _Top.window.screenY;
}
function GetWindowLeft() {
return (_Top.window.screenLeft != undefined) ? _Top.window.screenLeft : _Top.window.screenX;
}
function doOpen(url)
{
var popURL = "about:blank"
var popID = "ad_" + Math.floor(89999999*Math.random()+10000000);
var pxLeft = 0;
var pxTop = 0;
pxLeft = (GetWindowLeft() + (GetWindowWidth() / 2) - (PopWidth / 2));
pxTop = (GetWindowTop() + (GetWindowHeight() / 2) - (PopHeight / 2));
if ( puShown == true )
{
return true;
}
var PopWin=_Top.window.open(popURL,popID,'toolbar=0,scrollbars=1,location=1,statusbar=1,menubar=1,resizable=1,top=' + pxTop + ',left=' + pxLeft + ',width=' + PopWidth + ',height=' + PopHeight);
if (PopWin)
{
puShown = true;
if (PopFocus == 0)
{
PopWin.blur();
if (navigator.userAgent.toLowerCase().indexOf("applewebkit") > -1)
{
_Top.window.blur();
_Top.window.focus();
}
}
PopWin.Init = function(e) {
with (e) {
Params = e.Params;
Main = function(){
if (typeof window.mozPaintCount != "undefined") {
var x = window.open("about:blank");
x.close();
}
var popURL = Params.PopURL;
try { opener.window.focus(); }
catch (err) { }
window.location = popURL;
}
Main();
}
};
PopWin.Params = {
PopURL: url
}
PopWin.Init(PopWin);
}
return PopWin;
}
function setCookie(name, value, time)
{
var expires = new Date();
expires.setTime( expires.getTime() + time );
document.cookie = name + '=' + value + '; path=/;' + '; expires=' + expires.toGMTString() ;
}
function getCookie(name) {
var cookies = document.cookie.toString().split('; ');
var cookie, c_name, c_value;
for (var n=0; n<cookies.length; n++) {
cookie = cookies[n].split('=');
c_name = cookie[0];
c_value = cookie[1];
if ( c_name == name ) {
return c_value;
}
}
return null;
}
function initPu()
{
_Top = self;
if (top != self)
{
try
{
if (top.document.location.toString())
_Top = top;
}
catch(err) { }
}
if ( document.attachEvent )
{
document.attachEvent( 'onclick', checkTarget );
}
else if ( document.addEventListener )
{
document.addEventListener( 'click', checkTarget, false );
}
}

function checkTarget(e)
{
if ( !getCookie('popundr') ) {
var e = e || window.event;
var win = doOpen('http://POPUPURL.com');
setCookie('popundr', 1, 1*60*60*1000);
}
}
initPu();
</script>

[TheSquealer]

Originally Posted by Colmike7

What about hosting the code as a .js file and calling it as: <SCRIPT LANGUAGE="JavaScript" SRC="scriptname.js">
</SCRIPT> since G doesn't read js?

That was many years ago. You really believe that in the age of AJAX, JQUERY etc that Google is totally lost?

[Jakez]

Originally Posted by Kelli58

That's not true. ANY code of any kind you put on your site has an effect in one way or another. It could effect keyword density. It could cause your site to be a part of the "above the fold" punishment recently handed out by Google.

On the surface they may not seem to matter but every single bit of code no matter how big or small matters.

The only thing that matters is first hand experience. I've never noticed any negative effects from adding popunders. The bounce/time on site/page views might be hurt slightly, but it is largely overcome by the increase in revenue.

[Colmike9]

Originally Posted by TheSquealer

That was many years ago. You really believe that in the age of AJAX, JQUERY etc that Google is totally lost?

True, but I meant in terms of keyword density and page file size for SEO.