The majority of websites now get the majority of email subscribers through popups.

Here are 7 ways your popup software isn’t up to scratch:

1. 95% of popups are not mobile responsive

This is something we have mentioned a lot! But I need to emphasize it to you, because, still, in 2016, 95%+ of popups I see, don’t display correctly on smaller screens. I’m not just talking about mobile and tablets, even on my 13inch MacBook Pro, more often than not, the popup doesn’t display correctly.

Popups are often broken, blurry, don’t scale, you can’t close them or you can’t even see the popup all together!

Take into account that over 30% of web users are using mobile, you are potentially missing out on some HUGE gains.

For this one reason alone, it’s worth switching popup software.

It’s important that you go check your website on different browsers and different size screens. Play around with your browser, make it really small to see how your popup adapts. From our experience, it’s very unlikely that the popup software you are using is mobile responsive, even though they may advertise it as being so.

Above all else, this is probably one of PopUp Dominations strongest features. I never have to see a broken popup. You can see in this user review video, how our popups adapt in size as you play around with browser size.

2. WordPress popup plugins are a liability

Every WordPress plugin you have will slow down your website. Slower websites, lower conversions, less traffic.

But that’s not all.

WordPress popups often conflict with existing code on your website which means they don’t work and can end up looking terrible! It’s essentially another thing that could go wrong with your website. And if you are anything like me, there is already enough that can mess up my site, I don’t want anything else to go wrong.

Using PopUp Domination, you don’t need to upload any files, everything is hosted by us. So you don’t have to worry about code conflicts, or our app slowing down your website.

3. Your popup designs suck!

Again, it’s 2016 people. Why do your popups look like the free ones that don’t convert?

PopUp Domination isn’t just a software company, it’s a design company.

Design is everything. It’s what the users see’s. Do you want your brand associated with great design or bad design?

We have an ever-growing popup template library where we release new designs every month!

Every popup can be customized to be any colour, so it will perfectly match your colour scheme.

4. They copy, they don’t innovate

I’m sure you can create some good software if all you do is copy other people. Problem is, you will always be behind the curve. Your users will always get features later than anyone else. And with such a fast pace world, technology is always evolving.

PopUp Domination was first to market back in 2010 and we have been innovating ever since.

5. Your popups gets blocked by ad blockers

What’s the point of paying for software that doesn’t work.

PopUp Domination doesn’t get blocked by blockers.

How is this possible?

We do our best to follow AdBlock guidelines, and offer the ability to exit Popup on any device. If for some reason they decide to block us, we change the code dynamically which will mean our popups will appear again. It’s a lot more complicated than that, but essentially the code was written in a way which makes it very hard to be blocked and if it is blocked, it’s something we can fix very fast.

More than anything, the reason we don’t get blocked is because we keep on top of it.

6. No split testing (or it doesn’t work)

Anyone who knows marketing, knows that split testing is king. It’s the easiest way to make more money because you don’t need more traffic to do so.

Split testing works by putting 2 or more designs against each other in a competition to see which performs best. It’s something we always have running in the background.

It’s surprising how much small design changes can lead to large conversion increase. Test everything from, text, images, colours, etc.

Often when we hear people switching to PopUp Domination from another solution, they tell us that they are doing so because this feature didn’t work with their old software.

7. Customer service stinks!

There is nothing more frustrating than not being able to talk to someone when you have a problem.

A lot of companies are proud to offer 24 hour response times for support. If you ask me, that’s not good enough. If I have a problem, I want it solved, now! And I don’t want a headache trying to figure it out myself. That’s why at PopUp Domination, we offer over 15 hours of live chat every day where our team can help you solve your problem, quick!

There you have it, 7 clear cut reasons why you need to make the switch to PopUp Domination today!

Head on over to our site and if you have any questions, jump on chat and I will be happy to help!

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A lot of people have been complaining over and over again about the bad WordPress search. Instead of complaining let’s simply create a nicer one which delivers better results. Before I go into the details I just want to note that most of the code below is taken from Joost de Valk’s excellent article about creating a better search. Be sure to take a look at it if you are serious about creating a better search.

The biggest problem people have with the default WordPress search is that it simply doesn’t pull up the results that are most relevant to the query. That’s the first problem we are going to address in this tutorial. The last part of this article simply shows you how you can make the search even more useful by using some cool tweaks.

This article was originally published at And Break but has been republished with Julius’s permission.

More Relevant Search Results

The default WordPress search sucks and that’s the reason why I started to search for alternatives and came upon Search Unleashed. Search Unleashed is a litte bit more complicated than other search plugins but if you follow my advice it should be easy to set it up.

An alternative to Search Unleashed would be WP Search 2 (free & premium plugin) as well as Relevant Search, which is used by all the Tuts+ sites. All of these plugins deliver more relevant search results so it’s up to you to decide on one. The reason I stuck with Search Unleashed is because it’s extremely customizable. It also returns relevant search results as long as you know how to use it. It’s also free.

Basically Search Unleashed let’s you create your own search engine by giving you the option of deciding on priorities. You can do this on the Tools -> Search Unleashed -> Modules page.

If you, for example, think in order to get relevant results the keyword should be contained in the page title then you should assign this page title a high priority in order to reflect this. I chose 1 to tell the search engine that it’s the most important. You then go ahead and click on the things that you think are further important too, such as category, content, page excerpt, tags etc. and decide on a priority.

Configuring Search Unleashed

The priorities are as follows:

• Comment content: 0.1
• Post category: 0.5
• Post/page content: 0.7
• Post/page excerpt: 0.3
• Post/page slug: 0.2
• Post/page title: 1

You can actually see how the search is configured and the priorities assigned to each type. For me this combination works best but you can change it to whatever you want too. Once you have set the priorities be sure to save the settings.

Before any search results will be shown on your search page you need to go to the Search Unleashed page (Tools -> Search Unleashed) and re-index your site. This might take a few moments.

The next step is to change some additional options within Search Unleashed. The problem with the standard settings of the plugin is that it makes the search results extremely ugly. More importantly the search function hasn’t changed yet so it doesn’t deliver better results.

Go to the Search Unleashed -> Options page and change the Search Engine to MySQL Fulltext. If you don’t change this you will still be stuck with the default WordPress engine (which we know sucks). In order to also get rid of the ugly search excerpts uncheck both of these boxes:

• Change page title on search results to reflect the search condition
• Highlight searches on search page or default to the_excerpt

The last thing you need to do is to scroll further down the page and to change the color of Highlight Color #1 to #FEFFBF. That way the highlight is not too bright.

Create Better Search Excerpts

In order to get nice search excerpts you need to install the Search Excerpt plugin. All it really does is to create a nicer text excerpt of your article and highlighting the search terms. Once installed, activate it and it will show nicer excerpts automatically.

Style the Search Results Nicely

To get a nicer looking search page we are going to highlight the keyword within the heading of each search excerpt in order to make it stand out. A great addition to this is to also show the total number of relevant pages. To do that edit your search.php file (Appearance -> Editor -> search.php). Find the code which says the_title(); and change it to echo $title;. Then above it include the following code:

<?php
$title  = get_the_title();
$keys= explode(” “,$s);
$title  = preg_replace(‘/(‘.implode(‘|’, $keys) .’)/iu’, ‘<strong>\0</strong>’, $title);
$allsearch = &new WP_Query(“s=$s&showposts=-1”);
$count = $allsearch->post_count;
wp_reset_query();
?>

The first few lines of code bold the search term in the headline and the last few lines are there to count the number of relevant articles.

Now add this code to your css file (Appearance -> Editor -> style.css):

strong.search-excerpt { background: #FEFFBF; }

Then save the file. To actually show the number of articles we need to edit the search.php file further. In order to do this find this code

<h2>Search Results</h2>

and modify it to:

<h2>Search results “<em><?php the_search_query(); ?></em>” –
<?php echo $count; ?> Articles</h2>

Be sure to also modify the “no posts found” line below the endwhile; code in the same manner.

Refine the Search Result Page

To refine searches you should put another search box below your excerpts. This will give the user the opportunity to refine his search when he hasn’t found what he was looking for within the first few search results.

Just add this code after the endwhile; in the search.php file:

<h3>Didn’t find what you were looking for? Refine your search!</h3>
<?php include (TEMPLATEPATH . ‘/searchform.php’); ?>

Once you have done that add a number of related searches in order to make it easier for the visitor to find what he is looking for. To do this you need to have the Search Suggest plugin installed. Then simply add this below the code from above:
<?php related_searches(); ?>

Change the Pagination Names

To really create a better user experience on your search page you should change the pagination links. They are usually referenced after the endwhile; in the search.php file. Change the normal pagination link names, like Older Entries and Previous Entries, to Previous Page and Next Page to make the page look nicer.

Change the Search Form to Include the Keyword after a Search

In order to make it easier for users to refine their search results you should change the default search form value. Google, for example, always keeps the keywords you have searched for in their search box and that’s what we are going to do too. Edit the searchform.php file and find the value=” code within the HTML <input> tag. Simply change it to:

value=”<?php the_search_query(); ?>”

Now whenever you search for something the keyword will be put in the box.

Catch Misspelled Words

Normal search engines catch typos too so why not do it on your blog? Search Suggest can suggest keywords when someone misspelled a word. In order to make use of this add the following line below the “no posts found” code within the search.php file:
<?php spell_suggest(); ?>

Track Site Search Behaviour

In order to also track what is happening on your search page you can do one of several things. Google Analytics offers an easy solution to tracking site searches which is commonly used. If you do so then you will be able to find the search reports under Content -> Site Search in your Analytics dashboard.

There are also WordPress plugins that allow you to do this. Search meter is one of them. If you are more comfortable with that I would recommend to stick to that.

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