We have a free email guide that visitors subscribe to. Once they subscribe, they receive a series of educational articles from an autoresponder. The articles they receive are blocked from SE by robot.txt and our sitemap, so they don't show up SE results (we want users to subscribe before they receive content).
On the main the directory of our site, we do have the same articles, optimized for SEO, and they are indexed by SE. We did this just to bring more attention to site. Most users don't know these are here, although traffic does come into these artilces.
We are considering putting a popup on these articles (on main directory) that would create a mask which covers all the content on the page, only leaving the popup content visible. I was condidering having the popup trigger after about 5 seconds. The popup would give the user the option (with a link on popup) to go to main signup page of email guide. The message would be something like -
"Get access to this article and more be subcribing to our free email guide - click this link to open the signup page"
I am wonderig if putting these type of dhtml popups that mask the content will hurt our indexing, rankings. I know one factor is that user will tend to leave page sooner because they will be navigating to main signup page (instead of staying to read articel). I've heard how long the user is on a page is relevant to se rankings.
Here is a page on another site that does this type of thing (popup shows up after 5 seconds with a mask blocking content):
http://articles.mercola.com/sites/ar...-eyesight.aspx
Thank you for any suggestions. |
