What are exit popups?

Have you ever been to a site and when you tried to leave a popup appeared on the screen saying “wait don’t go yet” or “do you need help before leaving?” Those are exit popups.

Here’s a picture of one:

Most of the time you find these popups used on sales pages, however:

Should You Use Exit Popups On Your Landing Pages Or Blog?

Popups are an annoyance to most people so if you don’t want to annoy your readers than no.

However they do convert well according to many so think it over good. Here is ian talking about them converting for his sites.

They work good for landing pages because this traffic usually comes once and then buys or leaves and aren’t usual visitors. So maybe the decision could be made to show an exit popup to only search engine traffic, the quick browsers of your site.

Or if you put feeding your family above user experience and exit popups don’t kill the experience too bad maybe we should use them for every site, landing page, and blog?

Aren’t All Popups Bad?

I thought so also but I think the attitude is changing, at least from the people who benefit from popups. For instance I always thought that a popup within the first few seconds of entering a site was in poor taste and a good indicator of a more spammy site however now that problogger has touted the rewards of using the practice I’m seeing more and more popups around the blogosphere.

What about popups on the exit also Darren?

Most end users will say popups are annoying. Is the general opinion changing from the non-webmaster/blogger view? I might have to install some entry and exit popups here shortly.

How Do I Make Exit Popups?

Aweber will allow you to make an exit popup during your form creation. In the webforms look for “Exit Pop-up - Like pop-up, but the new window appears when the visitor leaves the current page.”

Roll Your Own - Here are some java scripts to create your own exit popups.

Buy An Exit Popup Script - Virtual smart agent will help you set up an exit popup and more.