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StupidNewbie · 08-22-2002, 05:44 PM

I've been trading traffic with 20 or so people I know well. I add an exit popup that goes directly to a particular directory listing helping my site's rank, traffic (and actually do provide a very easy to navigate directory for the surfer) on an archive/s page within the site. Most of the people I trade with I had contacted about a week or two in advance to let them know I was making drastic changes in layout and adding an exit popup. 12 hours after I modify the site I am contacted by another webmaster who is one of the fairly large sized trades and whom I thought would not have a problem with it.

The overall message was that I was cheating and now must be blacklisted from our trade together. I took down the exit popup as soon as I received the message, though it does considerably help my traffic the last thing I want is to be labled a cheater. I would like to know someone else's opinion on this, I know some guys are hardcore anti-console but once a surfer enters something such as the archives I still cannot use one single popup at all? I'll abide by any rules to conform to my current TGP trades but really I'm more interested in your opinions. Am I going to be considered a cheater for have a popup inside the site? Why is an exit popup so bad?

08-22-2002, 05:44 PM
StupidNewbie Registered User Join Date: Apr 2002 Posts: 864	Anti-Console webmasters I've been trading traffic with 20 or so people I know well. I add an exit popup that goes directly to a particular directory listing helping my site's rank, traffic (and actually do provide a very easy to navigate directory for the surfer) on an archive/s page within the site. Most of the people I trade with I had contacted about a week or two in advance to let them know I was making drastic changes in layout and adding an exit popup. 12 hours after I modify the site I am contacted by another webmaster who is one of the fairly large sized trades and whom I thought would not have a problem with it. The overall message was that I was cheating and now must be blacklisted from our trade together. I took down the exit popup as soon as I received the message, though it does considerably help my traffic the last thing I want is to be labled a cheater. I would like to know someone else's opinion on this, I know some guys are hardcore anti-console but once a surfer enters something such as the archives I still cannot use one single popup at all? I'll abide by any rules to conform to my current TGP trades but really I'm more interested in your opinions. Am I going to be considered a cheater for have a popup inside the site? Why is an exit popup so bad?