A Quick Tip to Boost Your LP CTR and CR (53)

For a long time on PPV I've used intro pops on nearly all my landing pages.

I've found they can make a HUGE impact.

Typical results are campaigns going from breaking even to 30%-50% ROI.

If you dont know what intro pops are , here is a screenshot :



Basically it's an alert box that loads when users enter on the page.

It has 2 basic benefits :

1 - "Presell" the visitor. An exit pop for a free iphone would be :
"Site.com visitor , you have been randomly selected to win an Apple Iphone 4. Read more on the site".

2 - Users are forced to read your message because they can't close the pop without clicking the "Ok" button.

The problem is the no.2 benefit.
Since users cant close the popup immediately , most CPV networks dont allow intro pops.

Despite that , I used to do this for a long time turning on the alert after after approval.
However I got caught a few times and was told that I can't do that anymore or I'll get banned.

So yesterday I started looking for alternatives and found a very cool javascript library that can do some sick stuff.

And the best part it doesn't block users closing the window so it's allowed to use on all CPV networks.

You can get it here , http://codecanyon.net/item/jquery-msgbox/92626 for 5 bucks.

Here are a few screenshots of what it can do :

Alert Box :



Error Box :



Info Box :



Question Box :




And the best is that it comes with an easy code generator so you dont have to code a line.

To make things easier for you I split tested the Alert , Question and Info boxes to see which one did better on my Iphone landing page.

The clear winner was the Info box with a 15% improvement.

Now for you that are curious how did this compare to the real javascript alert , I tested that too.

It performed slightly worse but at least this one is compliant.

So give it a go and let me know how it performs for you.

cool cool, call me a wimp but i don't want to stress about getting disapproved/banned after spending the time to get a good campaign going, my hunch is that there's usually something else out there that works AND is compliant. This is is definitely something to check out!

Cheers, thanks for the reminder. I bought that long time ago but never had the time to look into it more. Thanks again!

Yeah , definitively worth the $5 it costs.

I snagged a copy of the jQuery scripts last night and needless to say I'm impressed. I have a feeling that library is going to get a lot of use from me. I still can't believe it was so cheap though. Kudos to whoever coded it for not charging more, because he probably could have.

You read my mind mate I was looking for this script! thanks again

Awesome! I have been messing with some ways of building these on my own with an image, but this looks way slicker. +thanks

Would be interesting to see how OS-styled pops might narrow that CVR gap.

Just installed it on my lander, not too difficult. I'll let you know how it works for me.

Which package did you guys buy?

Can this be used on Lead Impact? Would they approve it?

I only saw one package. But I may not have been paying enough attention.

I just built a bunch of less than compliant landers for a ppv test I'm doing (ipad2 offers, like our noobs in the contest ;P) and I put these popups on them. They make the lander look a lot better. I was amazed at how nice they look. And they load pretty fast, too.

Not as obnoxious as a javascript alert but I'm guessing it will cause less complaints and (hopefully) keep my landers from getting re-evaluated. Because if that happens, I'm probably not going to have an LI account much longer, haha.

Stop messing with the n00bs man, it's hard enough as it is!!

jk

Haha I was planning on outlining the whole campaign when I was done. It's all good, man. :P Besides I doubt I'm directly competing with any of you.

Anyone mind helping me with some instructions to get this set up?

Usually I can figure it out, but I've been messing with it for a while and trying to teach myself some more javascript from w3schools to help, but still can't get it running right.

Copy the files from the archive onto your server - they recommend in the same directory as the page that will use it but realistically you could put it in its own folder and change the url to call it from there. For now just put it in the same folder to make this easier.

In that folder, load up "generator.html" - type in your text and hit the button - it will spit out the code you need to call the popup. Copy and paste that into a text file to save for later.

Now head over to "index.html" and copy the code that goes into the header (its near the top of the page.)

Paste that code into your lander between the <HEAD></HEAD> tags (I like to put it just before the closed tag so its easier to find later.)

Now, if you want your jquery box to pop up when the lander loads, go to the <BODY> tag and change it to <BODY onLoad=""> and between the "" put the code you got from generator.html - this will call the box to pop up on page load.

Now you can get rid of generator.html, index.html and examples.html, and upload your landing page. The popup should show when the page loads.

If that doesn't make sense let me know and I'll make some screenshots or a video or something. It's fairly straight forward.

@jons

What problems are you having?

I can help you sort it out.

Sweet dude, thanks. I was using the wrong call function in the body, funny something so simple can trip you up like that.

Appreciate the help.

Ya he covered it bbrock32, thanks though....now time to test this out.

My only other question would be now that I'm messing around with it is: can you call out user attributes within the message box?

Like calling another javascript function for the user's date, city, or site they came from. Seems like that could be useful.

Also, can you make another popup occur once an action is done. Like when they click the call to action button, you could have another box pop-up saying "You win! Fill in your email to win your prize." Or something to that affect.

Yes you can .

To display user's city you would have to include this right after your head tag :


and then put this where you want the city to be displayed :

<script language="JavaScript" src="http://j.maxmind.com/app/geoip.js"></script>

<script language="JavaScript">document.write(geoip_city());</script>

var d=new Date();
//day of month
var dt=mydate.getDate()
//month number
var month=mydate.getMonth();
//year
var year=mydate.getFullYear();

// to print the date
document.write(month+"-" + dt +"-"+year);

Ya I have those scripts but can't get them to work inside the message box.

I'll keep messing with it and see if I can figure it out now that I know you can do it. Thanks.

To display it in the alert box just remove the <script> tags.

So it looks like this :

<script language="JavaScript">
$.msgbox("Hey " + geoip_city() + " visitor");
</script>

haha, awesome. Ya the part I was missing was that you needed to end and then restart the quotes.

Sweet dude thanks.

Originally Posted by bbrock32

To display it in the alert box just remove the <script> tags.

So it looks like this :

Code:

<script language="JavaScript">
$.msgbox("Hey " + geoip_city() + " visitor");
</script>

So basically you mean when a user clicks "OK" on the alert to be redirected to a new url in a new window?

If this is an intro pop users don't get a chance to see the lp.

If you can give me more details I can certainly help you.

When the LP pops, it has a popup message that says basically "You have won an iPad2!" then they click ok, look at the page, and it's a poll. After they click on their selection for the poll I wanted a second popup to say "Thank you for voting! Please enter your email address on the next page to receive your prize." and after they click ok there, I wanted it to pop the new window with the offer.

Problem I'm having is I was doing it like this:

<a href="offer url" target="_blank" onClick="popup message code">

and of course that pops the message - but also pops the new window at the same time, which obscures the original popup and they never see the on-exit message I put in.

I just think adding some instruction before they go to the offer page would raise conversions. I suppose I could do the same with a javascript alert, so it refocuses on the PPV Lander instead of the offer page, but then the offer page might get obscured in the shuffle.

If I'm still not making sense I apologize. I've been cranking out landers for two days and only slept a handful of hours last night.

Here ya go

 <script type="text/javascript" src="javascript/jquery.min.js"></script>
  <link rel="stylesheet" type="text/css" href="javascript/msgbox/jquery.msgbox.css" />
  <script type="text/javascript" src="javascript/msgbox/jquery.msgbox.min.js"></script>
<script>
	function dostuff(){
		$.msgbox('Hey Hey!', {}, function(buttonPressed) {
		  	newwindow=window.open('http://google.com','google','height=1200,width=900');
				if (window.focus) {newwindow.focus()}
		});
	}
	
</script>
</head>

<body>
<a href="#" onclick="dostuff();" style="color:white;font-size:24px;">Click here</a>

I am terrible with code so this is probably a dumb question is there a way to make the text in the message box a link?

Originally Posted by bbrock32

Here ya go

Code:

 <script type="text/javascript" src="javascript/jquery.min.js"></script>
  <link rel="stylesheet" type="text/css" href="javascript/msgbox/jquery.msgbox.css" />
  <script type="text/javascript" src="javascript/msgbox/jquery.msgbox.min.js"></script>
<script>
	function dostuff(){
		$.msgbox('Hey Hey!', {}, function(buttonPressed) {
		  	newwindow=window.open('http://google.com','google','height=1200,width=900');
				if (window.focus) {newwindow.focus()}
		});
	}
	
</script>
</head>

<body>
<a href="#" onclick="dostuff();" style="color:white;font-size:24px;">Click here</a>

hey is there anyway some one could get this to work on page load because every time i tried it doesn't work in IE but it works in FF and chrome
i tried putting <body onload="dostuff();"> but this doesn't work in IE so it doesn't work for LI since all the users use IE

any suggestions

I could swear I tried that, but thanks so much for your help works as it should. I have been trying for a few hours using various scripts to get the time and date to work but not having any luck.

I hate to keep having to ask for help, but once I get it working I won't need to ask again.

Looks interesting. Is this still allowed on TrafficVance?

I'm using this script with the java below and the box pops fine but there is no message. I have sent a support ticket 3 days ago with no response. Any ideas?

Thanks
Mike

Any idea whey the text is not showing the the popup. I cannot get a response from the programer.

Thanks

Have you checked if Javascript/Popups are enabled on the browser?

Does anyone know how to make sure the black fade does not appear? Thats what LI is falling over, without it, its allowed and fine

Whoa, I downloaded this and I tweaked it! I added color to the text , bold, I changed the default images to a animated gif. CTR+ !

Originally Posted by bbrock32

For a long time on PPV I've used intro pops on nearly all my landing pages.

I've found they can make a HUGE impact.

Typical results are campaigns going from breaking even to 30%-50% ROI.

If you dont know what intro pops are , here is a screenshot :



Basically it's an alert box that loads when users enter on the page.

It has 2 basic benefits :

1 - "Presell" the visitor. An exit pop for a free iphone would be :
"Site.com visitor , you have been randomly selected to win an Apple Iphone 4. Read more on the site".

2 - Users are forced to read your message because they can't close the pop without clicking the "Ok" button.

The problem is the no.2 benefit.
Since users cant close the popup immediately , most CPV networks dont allow intro pops.

Despite that , I used to do this for a long time turning on the alert after after approval.
However I got caught a few times and was told that I can't do that anymore or I'll get banned.

So yesterday I started looking for alternatives and found a very cool javascript library that can do some sick stuff.

And the best part it doesn't block users closing the window so it's allowed to use on all CPV networks.

You can get it here , http://codecanyon.net/item/jquery-msgbox/92626 for 5 bucks.

Here are a few screenshots of what it can do :

Alert Box :



Error Box :



Info Box :



Question Box :




And the best is that it comes with an easy code generator so you dont have to code a line.

To make things easier for you I split tested the Alert , Question and Info boxes to see which one did better on my Iphone landing page.

The clear winner was the Info box with a 15% improvement.

Now for you that are curious how did this compare to the real javascript alert , I tested that too.

It performed slightly worse but at least this one is compliant.

So give it a go and let me know how it performs for you.

awesome share.... so it shouldn't have any issues getting approvals cuz its not interfering with the user exiting the page eh?

How can I get this script to go to my offer when the "ok" button is clicked? Users shouldn't have to click OK and then click on my CTA to get to the offer.

A simple and very simple trick:
Instead of the default icons, try to add a Facebook proven picture and see your CR skyrock.
If you push credit offers, split test a few financial trust icons!

Anybody know why after placing the Script for the jquery the COUNTDOWN TIMER doesn't work? been at it for a while and can't figure out :-( Anybody?

Hmm , have you tried putting this after the countdown script ?

Originally Posted by z6marketing

Copy the files from the archive onto your server - they recommend in the same directory as the page that will use it but realistically you could put it in its own folder and change the url to call it from there. For now just put it in the same folder to make this easier.

In that folder, load up "generator.html" - type in your text and hit the button - it will spit out the code you need to call the popup. Copy and paste that into a text file to save for later.

Now head over to "index.html" and copy the code that goes into the header (its near the top of the page.)

Paste that code into your lander between the <HEAD></HEAD> tags (I like to put it just before the closed tag so its easier to find later.)

Now, if you want your jquery box to pop up when the lander loads, go to the <BODY> tag and change it to <BODY onLoad=""> and between the "" put the code you got from generator.html - this will call the box to pop up on page load.

Now you can get rid of generator.html, index.html and examples.html, and upload your landing page. The popup should show when the page loads.

If that doesn't make sense let me know and I'll make some screenshots or a video or something. It's fairly straight forward.

Originally Posted by bbrock32

Here ya go

Code:

 <script type="text/javascript" src="javascript/jquery.min.js"></script>
  <link rel="stylesheet" type="text/css" href="javascript/msgbox/jquery.msgbox.css" />
  <script type="text/javascript" src="javascript/msgbox/jquery.msgbox.min.js"></script>
<script>
	function dostuff(){
		$.msgbox('Hey Hey!', {}, function(buttonPressed) {
		  	newwindow=window.open('http://google.com','google','height=1200,width=900');
				if (window.focus) {newwindow.focus()}
		});
	}
	
</script>
</head>

<body>
<a href="#" onclick="dostuff();" style="color:white;font-size:24px;">Click here</a>

Ok guyzz.. I've resolved the issue of of using this jquery script with alert box script. Since, I'm a programmer so, it wasn't a difficult task for me. What you have to do this is put this javascript before closing the </head> tag

This one:

<script type="text/javascript">
function func1() {

// Your generated jquery code using the script generator goes here

}

// count down script, if you tend to use it

var sec = 23; // set the seconds
var min = 04; // set the minutes

function countDown() {
sec--;
if (sec == -01) {
sec = 59;
min = min - 1; }
else {
min = min; }

if (sec<=9) { sec = "0" + sec; }

time = (min<=9 ? "Offer expires in: 0" + min : min) + " min and " + sec + " sec ";

if (document.getElementById) { document.getElementById('theTime').innerHTML = time; }

SD=window.setTimeout("countDown();", 1000);
if (min == '00' && sec == '00') { sec = "00"; window.clearTimeout(SD); }
}

function addLoadEvent(func) {
var oldonload = window.onload;
if (typeof window.onload != 'function') {
window.onload = func;
} else {
window.onload = function() {
if (oldonload) {
oldonload();
}
func();
}
}
}

addLoadEvent(func1);
addLoadEvent(countDown);


</script>



It will work like a charm without any issue. I've tested it myself Let me know if you have any other issue


Cheers

Nice Tactics..!

hmm do you think it would be effective for financial products?

Not sure, it'd look like "You Won lottery today" - kind of amateurish for loan offers IMO

Originally Posted by mixteral

Not sure, it'd look like "You Won lottery today" - kind of amateurish for loan offers IMO

mm is it still relevent today? and does it load fine on mobile devices from your experience?

Hi bbrock32!

Do you know if this is allowed on ExoClick? I've just noticed "Popunder campaigns can not use any type of JavaScript forcing to pop over the active page." in their advertisers' terms.

I'm tempted to try it but don't want to get banned. Thanks!

very old post....