Adding Polls To Your Site

Hosting a poll on a site offers extra incentive for visitors to return. Visitors will participate in polls, review results and also take a look over the content provided on the site.

There are a few easy options to create a poll, like using BuzzDash.com or a wordpress poll plugin. There is also another highly-customizable service called PollDaddy, which allows you to create free polls to place on your site, blog, Friendster, Myspace and share it in many other places.

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PollDaddy stands out from the rest because of its unique options to display a poll using Javascript, a direct link, widget, RSS or Flash. The RSS option is quite unique as it allows you to follow an interesting poll closely by just subscribing to it. BuzzDash has just released a similar option but it only gives you the option to look a random “buzzbites” from iGoogle.

In comparison to other poll services, some of their other features are golden:

  • It’s never too late to edit a poll
  • Multiple choice answers are available
  • The option “Other” allows users to enter their own answer
  • Choice to turn or off the poll on PollDaddy’s site

Customizing the look of PollDaddy to match and blend into your site’s design is very nice. If PollDaddy likes the ways your customized poll looks, they may even approve it for public use.They’ve just recently won a top 10 spot in their publishing category with CNET and now serving over 14,000,000 polls per month.

5 Comments;

  1. Melissa Fish
    6:05 am on September 26th, 2007

    Susan,
    Thank you for the comment on my blog. I thought I would take a peek at yours in return. I love it! What a great suggestion, adding a poll to the blog! I am going to check into that right now. Thanks again, enjoy this lovely day.

  2. Catherine Lawson
    1:18 pm on September 26th, 2007

    Hi Susan - thanks for the great info. I’ve been thinking of adding a poll to my blog for a while now and PollDaddy sounds like a good one to go for.

  3. Zmoney
    9:09 pm on September 26th, 2007

    Polls are really cool indeed. My last 50cent v Kanye got 298 votes :) now my latest whose your favorite family character is on its way pass 20 votes. You don’t have to have the news post concentrated only on the poll just have it related. I got the idea after seeing TMZ’s polls.

    I use wp poll plugin.

  4. Lisa
    8:28 am on September 27th, 2007

    Susan, these BuzzDash.com polls are awsome. I have been using them for my blogs and even for some statistics, because it offers off beat, random and quirky data on almost all subject matter, which I can’t find anywere else. And I’ve noticed they are now offering customized polls, different color and graphics for the bloggers to “match” their blog’s “wallpaper” and it is totally awsome.

  5. david
    10:25 am on September 27th, 2007

    I tried using wp-poll but to no avail! I’m still new to coding and is it because my sidebars are too small?

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