Popunders not allowed by google chrome???

[TrafficTitan]

Did google chrome just recently change their rules on popunders? Did they just ban them completely?

[Klen]

There is like thousands of threads asking same question

[Markul]

By default google block popunders. this is not new. If you in any way rely on pop-unders, I'd swap to something like push for now.

[EddyTheDog]

By default google block popunders. this is not new. If you in any way rely on pop-unders, I'd swap to something like push for now.

I think mainstream went so hard on push that people are too wary of it - They wont fall for the tricks anymore - It was pretty short lived...

There was something somebody was talking about a few days ago - Some sort of video gadget thing that people are using instead of pops - I will have a look.....

Edit: There is always link to a new tab and change the originating page to a sponsor trick as well...

[trevesty]

There is like thousands of threads asking same question

OP owns big sites and I suspect he's talking about something quite different than the typical 5k / day dork here who's clueless about changes Google implemented in 2015.



OP, not really - but they did get more strict about "under" vs "up".

[Markul]

I think mainstream went so hard on push that people are too wary of it - They wont fall for the tricks anymore - It was pretty short lived...

There was something somebody was talking about a few days ago - Some sort of video gadget thing that people are using instead of pops - I will have a look.....

Edit: There is always link to a new tab and change the originating page to a sponsor trick as well...

Yea that clicks to new tab and redirect is what everyone seems to be doing now.

[PornMySex]

Yea that clicks to new tab and redirect is what everyone seems to be doing now.

You still get the google abusive alert when doing this.

I'm also looking for a solution.

[TrafficTitan]

It would be cool if google would actually post their policy changes instead of just randomly changing enforcement. It would be super cool if google just fucked off and let surfers decide.

[mikeet]

It would be cool if google would actually post their policy changes instead of just randomly changing enforcement. It would be super cool if google just fucked off and let surfers decide.

Yes it would but im pretty sure that will never happen

[Klen]

OP owns big sites and I suspect he's talking about something quite different than the typical 5k / day dork here who's clueless about changes Google implemented in 2015.



OP, not really - but they did get more strict about "under" vs "up".

Google does not discriminate, they dont care do you have 5 hits a day or 5000000 hits a day
And there was many thorough discussions already, but since google randomly do this stuff, there is always surprises.

[trevesty]

Google does not discriminate, they dont care do you have 5 hits a day or 5000000 hits a day
And there was many thorough discussions already, but since google randomly do this stuff, there is always surprises.

That wasn't my point. But ok, keep talking to keep activity up or something.


Google definitely recently became more strict about their already existing rules. I gave OP a hint. Their manual reviewers aren't fond of "under" rather than "up" it seems.

Didn't you shut down all of your sites years ago because you were bad at SEO?

[Eddie Monster]

Our current pop script from our network has yet to be hit with a warning on publisher sites. I'm not saying that it won't. We have moved forward with testing some new options just in case it does.

We did get hit by Google on our test site that we had our old pop script on. Based on the video they sent us the person that was clicking around had to be in what we considered a tier 3 country based on the ad that popped for them (they could have been using a VPN as well). Also when google blocked all the ads on the site, a simple Adblock trick got around that. After that we ended up removing all the ads and got the site cleared by Google. Using the old script we limited that to exclude chrome and we are testing a new ad type there for chrome only.

My opinion is I don't like what Google is doing now. It was ok at first to make sure pops were not hindering the user's experience, but now it feels they are trying to control too much. Also this better ads coalition https://www.betterads.org seems to be backed by them and not a real independent board. But it has gotten us to think about new ad formats to offer that are on the same level as popunders.

[Klen]

That wasn't my point. But ok, keep talking to keep activity up or something.


Google definitely recently became more strict about their already existing rules. I gave OP a hint. Their manual reviewers aren't fond of "under" rather than "up" it seems.

Didn't you shut down all of your sites years ago because you were bad at SEO?

I was not bad at seo, i simply didnt had will to fuck around with constant algorithm updates

[Colmike9]

I don't know if this still works, but with some JS popunders, you can just increase chromeDelay (Or whatever they named it) until the popunder doesn't get blocked.

 shouldExecute: function() {

            if (browser.chrome && lastPopTime && lastPopTime + this.options.chromeDelay > new Date().getTime()) {

                return false;

            }

            return !this.isExecuted();

        },

[trevesty]

I was not bad at seo, i simply didnt had will to fuck around with constant algorithm updates

That sounds like a nice way of putting exactly what I said, because in 16 years, I don't think I've had to "fuck around with" algo updates. Most of my traffic on all my money sites has always been SE, too.

But before 2012, it was extremely easy to do some link trades and get SE traffic to low quality sites. Now it's not.

[Klen]

But before 2012, it was extremely easy to do some link trades and get SE traffic to low quality sites. Now it's not.

You dont say My favorite SEO exploit then was getting backlinks from domains which contained same keyword as keyword which you would target, regardless do they had any seo value or not.

[amcic1994]

it is not a new thing from google , they make sites with popunders showed in the last pages results , it sucks

[APwebcamoffers]

Webcamoffers makes google complaint ads. Including popunders. We have our ways ;)

[Reno78]

Google checked my site a week ago. I have Exoclick popup window on my website and I passed.

I just had to adjust the settings.

1. Always use Pop-up instead of Pop-Under

2. Trigger Method: Clicking on links with a specific class.

You have to remove the pop-up script from all links and navigation elements (menu, etc.).

[Colmike9]

Google checked my site a week ago. I have Exoclick popup window on my website and I passed.

I just had to adjust the settings.

1. Always use Pop-up instead of Pop-Under

2. Trigger Method: Clicking on links with a specific class.

You have to remove the pop-up script from all links and navigation elements (menu, etc.).

Does making a clickable overlay over the whole page still work?..

[APwebcamoffers]

Webcamoffers makes google complaint ads. Including popunders. We have our ways ;)

*compliant not complaint

[TrafficTitan]

Google checked my site a week ago. I have Exoclick popup window on my website and I passed.

I just had to adjust the settings.

1. Always use Pop-up instead of Pop-Under

2. Trigger Method: Clicking on links with a specific class.

You have to remove the pop-up script from all links and navigation elements (menu, etc.).

What about on mobile where it generally uses a popunder? So you have the popunder trigger on video/gallery links but just not on the navigation links?

[Paul Markham]

They should mark sites down that rely on Pop up, unders or sideways to make the user experience better.

[pornguy]

Yea that clicks to new tab and redirect is what everyone seems to be doing now.

and its another tactic that pisses people off.