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One of my personal bug bares with sites!
It’s worth it to read the original Google announcement. They have some exceptions, one of which is interstitial for some legal stuff like acceptance of cookies or age check.
We sat down with Corey Silverstein when we were at Qwebec Expo (our plan is to hire him), and he’s a big advocate of enter/exit dialogs on ALL pages and ALL sites (not just porn) – so users actually take action to agree to terms of service and privacy policies. When I saw these headlines I wondered if that would mean sites with enter/exit dialogs would get punished. It took reading the exceptions to make me realize they’re OK.
So yes, those Javascript warnings I took off my sites last year are going to get reimplemented – though more smartly this time. They won’t just be about age, and Bootstrap helps immensely with the technical implementation.
And its good to see they dont mind banners as long as they use reasonable amount of space. It all seems like common sense for once. The ones I can see it affecting is the majority of tube sites which love ads including popups and popunders.
Some tubes (like xtube.com ) are smart about it, and use a gender/interest qualifier when you go to their site. There’s no ad displayed on it, either because they don’t know where you’re true interests are yet. Try it out. That’s the kind of pop-up pre-qualifier that more sites should use.
God, I hate those pop-ups too. Glad to see there may be less of them. Funny though, I was seeing them so often I thought about putting some on my blogs. If you can’t beat them, join them, as they say.
@jerry
Same thing AEBN does.
Seems sensible, although I get the feeling they might both get a little jittery and probably change a few things when the time approaches. We all know Google likes to be a little bit misleading and vague in their statements so it wouldn’t surprise me at all if this eventually went a lot further than what is being reported right now.If this is all it is then I think it’s a good move. Now if only they would start treating tube sites like the plague they are, and actually start demoting sites that load so many fucking ads your browser takes you back to 1996.
@thevipr3
The temptation is always there, and I have submitted to that temptation a couple of times in the past too, mainly for newsletter sign-up. It works in that regard.
We had a newsletter pop-up on BuddyBate for months and got plenty of new subscribers in that time, but that was traffic from social and sharing, not organic. The organic traffic for that site is so bad we expect to log in to check the stats and see nothing but a gif of a clown giving us the middle finger.
We’ve taken down the pop-up already, mainly because it was terrible for mobile viewers, but we will be putting it back up if organic traffic doesn’t improve at all.
Interesting. Will have to edit some banners on our systems.
