Great idea to get Firefox signups!

Ok, look at what I'm doing. First look at it in internet explorer and then look with firefox!

Tell me what you think!

Oh yeah, its at this website: http://www.slickcoupon.com

If you think this is a good idea, you are more than welcome to use it on your website! (however, if this helps you a lot, please just a linkback to my site would help alot; I don't get much traffic )

Thanks and enjoy!!

 

can you please email google and ask them if its ok with the TOS ? then please post here their response thanks

 

Interesting. Any results yet?

 

Yes I will do that.

 

At the borderline.. but again, most people have FF already so it's still tough to get signups..

 

Interesting and nice idea. Hope Google OKs it.

 

IE still has a 80%+ lead over all other browsers.

 

86% of my traffic uses Internet Explorer 6. :-/. Stone Agers.

BTW, I see no difference between IE and FF, but I assume you are showing the code to only IE users.

 

Well, I mean that's why this is great. The people who have firefox don't get bothered with this irrelevant ad. However, people who don't have firefox will see this advertisement!

Also, according to w3schools.com only about 32% have FF and about 60% have IE, so there are still plenty of people to convert!

 

Also, if anyone wants a copy of the simple javascript code that I'm using to do this, please send me a pm and I'll be more than happy to send it to you!

 

I don't see a difference between the two?

 

When you go to http://www.slickcoupon.com through internet explorer, it should redirect you to http://www.slickcoupon.com/getfirefox.php

However, if you visit http://www.slickcoupon.com through firefox, it should redirect you to http://www.slickcoupon.com/index.php

 

Nice idea although I'm not sure if its okay with TOS

Anyone can confirm this?

 

****UPDATE****

I e-mailed them back asking to clarify because I was not sure as to what this e-mail meant!

 

Thanks for posting their answer, it mean its againt TOS, you cant do that its really clear

 

I remember this script is from a site called Browser Hijacker or somehting of that sort.

 

No, i don't think so, because you can still view the site using internet explorer, so it's not requiring you to get firefox using referall to view it.

I think the email sort of says it's a grey area and their not too sure. I would keep the technique, but maybe use it with a javascript countdown that auto redirects after 10 seconds? That way you're definately not requiring users to download firefox to advance on the website.

 

Its not 100% clear, by my own opinion this is against TOS, damn google can never give a clear response, this email is 100% Copy/Paste.

 

i see the difference, but it would be against the tos

 

Yeah, I think I will do that, except redirect in 30 seconds.

Thanks for the feedback guys!