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The views of Moz. Have you thought about what your popups might be doing to your SEO There are plenty of considerations from their timing and how they affect your engagement rates all the way to Googles official guidelines on the matter. In this episode of Whiteboard Friday Rand goes over all the reasons why you ought to carefully consider how your overlays and modals work and whether the gains are worth the sacrifice. Popups modals overlays interstitials and how they work with SEO Click on the whiteboard image above to open a highresolution version in a new tab Video Transcription Howdy Moz fans and welcome to another edition of Whiteboard Friday.
This week were chatting about popups overlays modals Kazakhstan Phone Number interstitials and all things like them. They have specific kinds of interactions with SEO. In addition to Google having some guidelines around them they also can change how people interact with your website and that can adversely or positively affect you accomplishing your goals SEO and otherwise. Types So lets walk through what these elements these design and UX elements do how they work and best practices for how we should be thinking about them and how they might interfere with our SEO efforts.
Popups So first up lets talk specifically about what each element is. A popup now okay there are a few kinds. There are popups that happen in new windows. New window popups are basically new window no good. Google hates those. They are fundamentally against them. Many browsers will stop them automatically. Chrome does. Firefox does. . There are still some spammy and sketchy sites out there that use them but generally speaking bad news. Overlays When were talking about a popup that happens in the same browser window essentially its just a visual element thats often also referred to as an overlay. So for the purposes of this Whiteboard Friday well call that an overlay. An overlay is basically like this.
This week were chatting about popups overlays modals Kazakhstan Phone Number interstitials and all things like them. They have specific kinds of interactions with SEO. In addition to Google having some guidelines around them they also can change how people interact with your website and that can adversely or positively affect you accomplishing your goals SEO and otherwise. Types So lets walk through what these elements these design and UX elements do how they work and best practices for how we should be thinking about them and how they might interfere with our SEO efforts.
Popups So first up lets talk specifically about what each element is. A popup now okay there are a few kinds. There are popups that happen in new windows. New window popups are basically new window no good. Google hates those. They are fundamentally against them. Many browsers will stop them automatically. Chrome does. Firefox does. . There are still some spammy and sketchy sites out there that use them but generally speaking bad news. Overlays When were talking about a popup that happens in the same browser window essentially its just a visual element thats often also referred to as an overlay. So for the purposes of this Whiteboard Friday well call that an overlay. An overlay is basically like this.
