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If so, is there a general standard/range for the number questions and/or type of info that folks are likely to complete on a poll page?
But it is not just the poll, but also the nature of the question that is important. Think about your audience and then use language suitable for them and frame questions in a way that you would get most and honest response.
You can use poll for many reasons::
1) Feedback. (like is the good, bad or ugly?)
2) Opinion of about new features that you plan to add on your web site.
3) You can learn a lot about your audience and tailor your web site to gain even more traffic.
4) Ask them what they want, and you can even serve ads.
But do make sure that you don't turn your poll into survey, surveys are good too, but we will stick to poll here. If possible keep the question short and don't show too many options - maximum 10 options should do. Also, dependeing upon the question if the options are "Yes" or "No", you might also wanna add the option " Don't Care" or "Not Sure" it helps to get better picture.
Hope this helps.
NeedScripts
Example :
Was this post useful to you?
1) Yes
2) No
3) I don't do polls
4) Not telling you
Just a page called thanks.html which you call with the feedback tagged on the end. The results will show up in your logs.
Something like:
Did this page help you?<br>
<a href='thanks.html?y'>Yes</a><br>
<a href='thanks.html?n'>No</a><br>
1) Yes <--------------- :)
2) No
3) I don't do polls
4) Not telling you
Thanks needscripts.
Hmmmmm.... maybe I should have asked about surveys. Gotta think about that a bit.
dmorrison; Thanks. I have used that method for a very simple one question yes/no poll. The results were pretty interesting, but the response was lower than I had hoped for, about 5%.
