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Why does my blog suddenly have popups

March 11th, 2008 by Rose DesRochers · 14 Comments

Kill the popups and no I’m not talking about the online game. This is something that many of you may not be aware of. Recently in the blogger help group I have seen a few bloggers complaining about pop-ups on their blog. Each of these blogs installed code from rankwidget.com.

Once they removed the code the popups went away. This isn’t surprising. Rankwidget has hidden code for advertising that allows them to run popup ads on your blog. If you are looking to paste the rankwidget code into your blog, you might want to give it a second thought.

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14 responses so far ↓

Sy // Mar 11, 2008 at 6:00 pm

I wonder who thought that annoying pop-up ads would be a great idea and that the internet community would enjoy them? I almost always refuse to go back to a site with a pop-up window.
Mewie // Mar 11, 2008 at 9:47 pm

pop-ups is a great indicator for me to stop visiting that site.
DrowseyMonkey // Mar 11, 2008 at 10:04 pm

ahh…excellent advice.
dar // Mar 11, 2008 at 10:17 pm

thanks to drowsey monkey she sent me over here to hep me remove my pop ups…..ok , so how do i do this can you give me a step by step?……thanks
Rose DesRochers // Mar 11, 2008 at 10:45 pm

Dar remove the RankWidget.com Google PageRank script. Send me an email through my contact form if you can’t get it.
Eric "Speedcat Hollydale" // Mar 11, 2008 at 11:13 pm

When did you find that it was rankwidget dot com? I am not sure if this is the only widget causing problems, have you heard of any others?
Steve Reichard // Mar 11, 2008 at 11:25 pm

Ah the dreaded pop ups seem to happen everywhere. They need to be killed permanently.
Rose DesRochers // Mar 11, 2008 at 11:25 pm

A couple of days ago. If memory serves me someone was getting unwanted popups with Altra Visel Babble fish.
invadesoda // Mar 12, 2008 at 2:37 pm

So it turns out that Rank Widget is aptly named.
dar // Mar 15, 2008 at 2:02 pm

Rose i would like to thank you so much for the help with the removal of the pop up on my site..as i did what you said and WHHHLAAA…its gone, smart cookie you are….ever so greatfull….
Darlene
dar // Mar 15, 2008 at 3:11 pm

oh i have something for u….please come see….
Bob // Mar 17, 2008 at 7:00 pm

Thanks for the advice, you always seem to be willing to help, great that you have so much knowledge you are willing to share.
kochels // Mar 28, 2008 at 6:32 am

Hi, may I know how to remove RankWidget from my blog? It seems like there’s something within my template that is causing the problem.
Jeffrey // May 1, 2008 at 1:51 pm

On of the most insidious kinds of “bots” that can be installed– illegally– on a site by a hacker are pop ups. The pop-ups can then do malicious things in a bot-net with the user IP.