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Polls are good to have on your website. They help give you insight into the thinking and rationale of those respondents. Even a small box with three answers in a sidebar is a fairly reasonable solution to your current situation.

Polls are very simple to make and maintain. And those poll developers are getting better every day. Let me point out a number of companies that offer free polls online and offline: PollDaddy makes a customizable plug-in for WordPress bloggers. Next would be the plugin (to WordPress) called WP-Polls. It’s also a reasonable plugin to have up and running on a sidebar on your site. Right now unfortunately there are no clear leaders when it comes to the poll developers, though PollDaddy and WP-Polls are quickly rising

However, and this is perhaps not the right forum to bring this up but, I’m finding that while all the bloggers say that the WP-Poll for WordPress is extremely easy to customize, I’m not seeing that. Easy for me is a document in Word. You want bold, you get bold. You want underline and doublespace, it’s fairly straightforward. Perhaps I’m missing some widget that makes all of that happen, but I just don’t see it yet.

Also on the online poll arena is Ilovepolls.com, Snappolls.com, and Misterpoll.com are three different online polls. Vizu makes a very good poll and poll generator, though it’s difficult to find out exactly how much their professional version really costs. Punch in “online poll” on Google and you’ll come up with over two million hits for that term alone! Wander through the first few pages, and you’ll find the perfect poll for you and your site. You don’t have to go far. After 500,000 or more, you’ll wish you never heard that word “poll” before.

Just as polls are easy to install, many are free. I like free and most reading these free articles also like free. The more robust polls will charge you but even so, they’re pretty reasonable.

The beauty of it all is that polls are everywhere! Politicians live by polls. As I mentioned 2.1 million hits later and you’ll find a poll that’s right. You’ll find one long before you go through ten pages of websites.

As the internet expands, polls will become better and more popular. For absolutely no cash up front, you can’t beat the trio of everywhere, simple.