Do pop-unders affect ranking?

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Biz, from the USA asks: "We got rid of a profitable pop-under ad (since we thought it the concept was user unfriendly), but then pages-per-visit and time-on-page dropped - along with our rankings. Does Google reward or penalize for a pop-under, directly or indirectly?



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