There are several software options available for highlighting particular products, third party websites, or specials to the visitors who come to your website. In the pioneering days of the Internet, banner ads were the popular choice. The problem is that they quickly led to banner blindness with most websurfers.

To the rescue came the first generation of popup generators. These worked by invoking a framed second browser session either over or behind the webpage that your visitor was busy reading! Unsurprisingly, most people found these highly irritating, and the counter-attack came from popup-blockers, which soon became commonly installed on browser toolbars and the most popular browsers.

Then a new generation of dhtml popups came into existence. Rather than opening a new browser window, these would overlay a popup note, hover ad, or fly-in ad within your existing browser session. They are less irritating and far harder for popup blockers to detect and zap. They also come in many varieties: from sticky note popups designs, to fade-in lightbox overlays, to slide in and fly-in windows. They can be attractive to look at as well as very versatile, allowing you to embed audio snippets, optin forms or a video right into the popup.

Software continues to progress of course, and the newest generation of attention generating programs allow you to add peel ads to the corners of your webpages. These are far less intrusive than even the newest evolution of popups, and yet they garner a good response rate from visitors. An example of a peel away ad can be seen in the corner of the following page about real estate investor Hans Jakobi, promoting the Success University website.

There are numerous webpage peel ad creator programs on the available. Some are better than others. The more rudimentary ones only allow you to show a small 500px squared peel, and when clicked, they open a new browser window by default.

The more fully featured ones allow you to choose between 500px squared and larger 600px by 800 ads, allow you to choose whether they will open a new browser window or not, and will allow you to add scrolling text over both your small animated peel in addition to your large peel away ad. The most affordable program which has all of these advanced features is version 2 of PeelAwayAds.net. At only $17, it is actually a package of four scripts. One for 500px squared dog ear ads, one for rotating and split testing your dog ear ads, one for affiliate promotion, and the version 2 script for the 600px by 800 peel ads with scrolling overlay text options.

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