Why does my blog suddenly have popups
March 11th, 2008 by Rose DesRochers · 24 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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Wrote: 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.
Wrote: Mar 11, 2008 at 9:47 pm
pop-ups is a great indicator for me to stop visiting that site.
Wrote: Mar 11, 2008 at 10:04 pm
ahh…excellent advice.
Wrote: 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
Wrote: 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.
Wrote: 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?
Wrote: Mar 11, 2008 at 11:25 pm
Ah the dreaded pop ups seem to happen everywhere. They need to be killed permanently.
Wrote: 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.
Wrote: Mar 12, 2008 at 2:37 pm
So it turns out that Rank Widget is aptly named.
Wrote: 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
Wrote: Mar 15, 2008 at 3:11 pm
oh i have something for u….please come see….
Wrote: 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.
Wrote: 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.
Wrote: 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.
Wrote: Nov 1, 2008 at 12:25 am
Hi dear, you are absolutely correct. I had installed page rank widget on my blog. Now, I have removed it and to my surprise, it has really helped me in getting rid of those unwanted popups.
Thanks again for your great advice !
Wrote: Nov 11, 2008 at 10:50 pm
Hi! I don’t have any rank widget, only alexa rank display here: kei-freegames.blogspot.com
Can you tell me please what should i do to get rid of pop-ups? Google will ban me if I don’t do something. Help!
Wrote: Nov 11, 2008 at 11:41 pm
Kei, I went to your blog and viewed it in both Firefox & IE. No popups were loading?
Wrote: Nov 11, 2008 at 11:48 pm
Oh yeah! I removed the visitors online status flash widget from widgeo/compteur.cc just now. It works then! Thanks for the quick reply and pointing it out, Rose!
Wrote: Nov 11, 2008 at 11:58 pm
Glad you got it.
Wrote: Nov 17, 2008 at 10:18 am
I’m suddenly getting popups in my blog and don’t know why. Surely there must be some kind of app that can scan a blog to show what’s causing the popups.
Jim
Wrote: Dec 3, 2008 at 6:57 pm
I have just found out I have been having the same problem and I noticed someone removed the widgeo/compteur.cc widget and the problem was solved, I think I know what I need to do.
Wrote: Mar 6, 2009 at 8:02 am
I don’t experience popups but others who visit my blogger blog do. Not just popups but they say their computers get hijacked and crash. I’m oblivious to all of these problems. I’ve had my code checked and rechecked several times. I’ve taken off most of my javascript widgets, one being FEEDJIT which McAfee SiteAdvisor showed that there were problems with adware, spyware etc. So if you have FEEDJIT installed you might want to take it down. Just my opinion. But even after removing it from my blog, visitors are still complaining about my site hijacking their computers.
Wrote: Apr 15, 2009 at 10:47 am
Hi rose, can you help me to remove my pop up advertise from my blog, the case just like Kei. pop up from widgeo.net. Thank you for your help
Wrote: Apr 30, 2009 at 3:27 pm
I removed FEEDJIT from my blog…. but still getting the popups.
Wish I knew what to try next.