How To Make Sure Your Visitors Don't Come Back!

Pop up windows - when you arrive, when you leave, when
you click to another page! It's an epidemic!

I was at a site today where they started coming up so
fast and so many that it froze my browser and I had
to hit Control, Alt and Delete in order to close a
couple of them so I could get back in control.

You use to see a couple here and there but now they
are everywhere and they are getting to be a pain.
Little ones, big ones, ones that come up half on the
screen so you have to actually drag it before you can
close it! Others that are small but have a full size
page inside but you can't read it unless you enlarge
the window! There are narrow ones that go across the
top of the screen and there are those that are larger
than your monitor screen so that you can't get to the
upper right corner to click that little "X" to close
the darn thing.

And now I find that I will close my browser and guess
what, there is a sneaky one that is lurking on my desk
top waiting for me, like a stalker, from a site I
visited a half hour ago!

It is getting to be like an arcade game, they pop up and
I shoot them down. I am getting pretty quick with my
mouse pointer. What I need is a laser mouse so I can
close them quicker :>)

Then there are the sites with the fancy flash programs.
They have the pop up that wants you to download the
Flash player. And that comes up a couple of times.
First of all, I have the darn player and secondly
hopefully there is a link there so I can bypass the
Flash presentation. Otherwise I just click away because
I really don't want to see it. I went to a site the other
day because I had to get some contact information. I had
to sit through a four minute presentation to get into the
site because there was no other way.

Then there are the sites that you go to and you get a
page that says - "This site requires that you have cookies
enabled" and you can't get to the site content. They must
get so much traffic that they can afford to turn some away.

Yes, we have one pop up at our main site but it will only
come up once when you leave the main page and it will not
come up for that visitor for the next twenty-four hours
not matter how many times he or she clicks around at
the site.

Well if you want to make sure that after you spend
all those resources to get people to come to your site
that they don't come back, make sure you use all these
fancy Flash presentations, lot's of pop ups and cookies
and great big graphics so if they do get into your page
it takes forever to load completely. What ever happened
to keep it simple!

It is a lot quicker to "click" away with a mouse than
Ann from "The Weakest Link" can say "Good Bye" although
the result is the same!