Does MSN Search penalize a web site's ranking because the site uses a pop-up?
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No.\n\nBut if you are using a redirection script (i.e. you have many URLs that all redirect to one site), you may be in trouble.
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Some Web sites seem to have one mission in life -- to annoy you. They stick little pop-up windows in your face every time you visit them.\n   GeoCities, a company that hosts thousands of smaller Web sites, is the worst offender. I try my best to avoid sites that have "geocities" in their addresses.\n   But sometimes I have no choice. If that happens to you and you can't avoid sites that insist on using pop-up windows, try a pop-up zapper. I tried two, both written for Windows 95 and 98. Both work with Internet Explorer and Netscape Navigator.\n   The simpler of the two is Close Popup, from Take a Hike Software. It costs $20. You can download a trial version from http://www.homeonthewww.com/ryan/. The other is from the huge Siemens electronics company in Germany, available from http://www.siemens.de/servers/wwash/wwash_us.htm. It's called WebWasher.\n   Close Popup has only one task -- to close pop-up windows. It looks for telltale signs of pop-ups by watching for the typical phrases in their windows -- "Welcome to a Tripod Member page!" or "Some words from one of our sponsors..." and so on. You can add to these phrases if you find a site with different pop-ups.\n   Close Popup runs in the System Tray, out of the way. It blocked pop-up windows without slowing down the browser and without getting in the way of anything else.\n   WebWasher is much more ambitious. Siemens gives it away to individuals but asks corporate users to pay $20. (Everybody gets the same version and there is no time-out on any of the features, so corporate users are on the honor system to pay.) \n   WebWasher does much more than block pop-up windows. It has two more useful functions. It blocks advertising on Web pages and it keeps Web sites from knowing what site you came from. (This is called a "referral.") All of WebWasher's functions can be adjusted or individually turned off.\n   WebWasher is even more flexible if you have a home or office network. You can set up WebWasher as a proxy for all the computers on the network -- Windows PCs, Macs, Linux PCs or what-have-you -- so that all the site filtering goes through just one computer. This computer can be the one with an Internet connection (if you use NAT32, the excellent gateway program I wrote about recently) or it can be whichever PC on the network is least busy.\n   Like Close Popup, WebWasher runs in the Tray and stays out of the way. Network administrators (and those who keep things running on a small peer-to-peer Windows network) should turn on a logging feature that tells WebWasher to keep track of everything it does. You can diagnose problems easily that way.
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Install an anti-spyware which also has a pop-up blocker.\nI strongly recommend Webroot SpySweeper, http://www.webroot.com/\nIt's cool, not heavy on the system resources, does the job extremely well, very customizable and the best !
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Hi there,\n\nIt's depend on what browser you used.\nIf you use Internet Explorer, then just click on menu Tools -> Pop-Up Blocker -> Pop-Up Blocker Settings..., and adjust some setting which you prefer.\n\nAnd if you use Mozilla Firefox, just click on menu Tools -> Options and in the Options dialog box go to Web Features part, and you can find the Block Popup Windows checkbox, and also you can adjust the sites by clicik on the Allowed Sites button.\n\nHope this will be helpful,\n\nCheers
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Honestly, if you have a search web bar, it's not a good thing. Almost every single web bar is a form of spyware. Best bet is to uninstall it.\n\nEric
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I use internet explorer often along with firefox. for internet explorer, i downloladed google's search toolbar which will kill pop-ups/ If you are getting a lot of them you may think about spyware or adware too. Slow computers and webpages loading slow may give you a hint you are infected.\n\nE-mail me at \nsteve@nicesites.org if you have other questions
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Depends on the type of browser you are using. If you are using IE its possible that its still cacheing the page to veiw, or its blocking ads without descrimination...(gee wish mine would do that sometimes...) If its firefox its still sorting the cache for veiwing. So you might try to look at your internet options and see what settings you have on the advanced settings for your IE and Firefox...whichever you are using at this time.
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hold down shift (or ctrl it depends on which pop-up blocker you use) while clicking on the link to go to the site.
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Hi,\n Pop ups are just small windows that are forced to open once a site opens. Orcan say they are just liks to the site if site opens the popup opens...
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The header at is very hard to make out, you really cant read the words. Also have a brown background is kind of odd on a page about fruit (not that you should make it some neon color). Finally making your links javascript pop-ups, while a nice idea, may effect your search engine ranking, depends how you set them up, having direct links are probably the way to go.
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Yes, and no. Helpful, huh? :)\n\nWhen you do a search, you'll see that there are paid search results at the top of the page (in the shaded box), at the bottom, and in the right-hand column. Those *are* paid placements, which is how Yahoo! makes money; the numbered items are pure-search items. \n\nSo yes, if you pay for it, you show up at the top of the page ... but not in the numbered search items.
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I am too, but we have to deal with them.  A study recently claimed that spam forms the biggest part of Internet traffic (I don't have that link).  However, we have to proactive in making it redundant.  I use Opera browser, its more secure than even Firefox.  In addition, I use LavaSoft AdAware and Popup Blocker.  They do an awesome job of blocking popus!!
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sometimes you might have two or more popup blockers (like msn and yahoo), in the toolbars bseides the option in the tools menu in M$ internet explorer
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you either have pop up blockers from yahoo, google or something in the tool bar\n\nanother pop up blocker is from microsoft sp2\n\nto turn off your pop up blocker from microsoft, in IE, go to tools, options, privacy and there's a checkbox for pop up blockers, uncheck it\n\nto turn of pop up blockers from your yahoo toolbar or other tool bars, there should be an icon for pop up blockers, if you aren't sure which one it is, place the cursor over the button, and it will tell you want it does
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Check your Pop-up blocker settings. Disable it.
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Unless you pay for the listing, yahoo takes its time, until one of its crawlers comes and visits your site. Also, when you list your URL it means that they will go over it and eventually categorize it in their directory whenever they get to it. Look in your site management tools for visitation of crawlers. Once you have been visited by the "inktomi Slurp" Crawler, your site will start appearing in search results, similarly Microsoft's crawler is " MSN Bot"
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Yup!\n\na simple little javascript command (that few people use!) is dependent on the way the browser designers decide to do it!\n\nThere is no standard for placement... You can get a lot better compatibility with AJAX (the domscripting part) techniques.\n\nCool sites pop 'windows 'right in the middle of the main page... \n\nI use jquery(a javascript library) to do this type thing, so can you!