How To Create A Free Opinion Poll

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Opinion polls are a good way to do market research and can make your site or blog more sticky. In fact because they're so popular most blog hosts like Blogger and WordPress have a widget or plugin for adding them.

And because they're so popular there are lots of places to get free and paid-for software to create polls.

However if you want to create a poll and

• You don't want to register
• You don't want to invest in either purchasing the software or paying a monthly fee
• You want your poll in an blog post and not in the sidebar

Then here are a couple places you'll want to check out.

For creating polls for your website you can use js-kit.com. You can create multiple polls however they will all look like the 1 I've got at readerspoll.htm and you have to host the page with the poll on your own hosted space.

If you don't have a website and you would like to create a poll you can use anywhere like inside a blog post or in your blog's sidebar you can use pollcode.com. You get a choice on how the poll will look and you can place it inside a blog post like I've done here:

Which do you think is better?
	blogger.com
	wordpress.com
	another bloghost
	a blog hosted on your own domain
	none of the above
pollcode.com free polls

If you'd like to create a poll where people can leave comments like the one below you can get a free one at shout-boxs.com. They host the poll on their site however you will have to register to use the service and you are limited to 1 poll unless you purchase more.

	Poll
Shout-Boxes.com Chat Rooms

Because all of the above are free services you will have to live with some advertising since they're providing the service to make money. When you're ready to start using some professional polling software where you can make money One Minute Poll is a good choice. One Minute Poll has been providing polling services since 2002, it's easy to use, it hosts the polls and the costs are reasonable. You can see everything it provides and get a 30 day free trial at oneminutepoll.com.

Everybody had an opinion about something so why not add a poll to your site and find out what your readers think.

To Your Success,
Susan

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