"Subscribe" pop up is annoying...

 

I know this is not entirely crochet related, it's more of an overall websites issue, crochet and otherwise. "Subscribe" pop ups are all over the place, nearly every site you go to nowadays has one.  I get you want subscribers, I want them too. A website is nearly nothing without subscribers and audiences, I get it, I do. 

I have spent the day browsing around other crochet sites and even some other sites (just depends on how sidetracked I get).

The #1 aggravation is....

The pop up subscribe form!

I may want to subscribe after I see what you offer. 

I no sooner than get the page opened and the subscribe pops up and you can't view what is on the page till you make it go away. Most all the sites I went to today were new sites I had never been to before and that is how you greet someone? 

With a high pressure subscribe form before I can see what your page is about?

I am not impressed with that tactic. I mean you could at least wait till I am about to leave and throw it up there, I might actually be inclined to fill it out then, if I liked the content of your site.

I visited this one site where I made the pop up go away, viewed the content and thought "I just might want to get their newsletter" but guess what, it is not available anywhere on their site other than the pop up.  They obviously didn't think that one through very well.

When I decided to do a newsletter I actually thought about doing a pop up but I couldn't figure out how to do it without it being the first thing you see, so I opted out of that. Last thing I want to do is annoy my potential customers and audience. 

Maybe that is why they are all at the beginning of your visit, maybe they can't find how to move it just like me. 

If you are planning to add a subscribe pop up, you might want to think twice about when to present it and make sure there is an alternate way to subscribe later in their visit.