06.23.08
Popup And Peel Ad Software Programs
There are a variety of software programs available for highlighting particular specials, products, or third party websites to the visitors browsing your site. In the early days of the Internet, banner ads were the popular choice. The problem is that they quickly led to banner blindness on the part of most websurfers.
To save the day came the first evolution of popup generators. These worked by opening a framed second browser either behind or over the webpage that your visitor was busy reading! Unsurprisingly, most people found these quite annoying, and the counter-attack came from popup-blockers, which soon became commonly installed on browser toolbars.
Then a new generation of dhtml popups came into existence. Rather than opening a new browser window, these would overlay a popup note, hover ad, or fly-in ad within your existing browser session. They are less annoying and far more difficult for popup blockers to detect and zap. They also come in many varieties: from note popup designs, to fade-in lightbox overlays, to slide in and fly-in windows. They can be attractive to look at as well as very versatile, allowing you to embed audio snippets, optin forms or a video right into the sticky popup notes.
Software continues to evolve of course, and the newest generation of attention generating programs allow you to add peel ads to the corners of your webpages. These are far less intrusive than even the newest genetration of popups, and yet they obtain a good response rate from visitors. A Peel Away Ad example can be seen in the corner of the following page about Hans Jakobi, promoting the Success university website.
There are numerous webpage peel graphics programs for sale. Some are better than others. The more basic scripts only enable you to display a small 500×500 pixel peel, and when clicked, they open a new browser window by default. The more fully featured scripts enable you to choose between 500×500 pixel and larger 600 by 800px ads, enable you to choose whether they will open a new browser window or not, and will enable you to add scrolling text both over your small animated peel in addition to your large peel away ad.
The most affordable program which has all of these advanced features is PeelAwayAds.net v2. At only $17, it is in effect a package of four scripts. One for 500 by 500px corner page peels, one for rotating and split testing your corner page peels, one for affiliate promotion, and the version 2 script for the 600 by 800px peel ads with scrolling overlay text options.