Do you have a blog that you run contests on or one where you just want to know what your readers want to know more about? Or maybe you want to create a personality type quiz for them to take – think something like you would find in Cosmo?
Did you know that you can embed a SurveyGizmo poll directly into your survey and ask your reader’s a question and give them the results right away?
Maybe you want to ask them more than one question — that’s easy too! All you need to is create a survey with multiple questions and insert into your blog (this is how you would do the Cosmo-esque personality quiz.)
So how do you actually do it?
First, you’ll want to decide what type of questions you’re going to ask. If you only need to ask one question, then use a poll because it’s simple and the poll results graph is already included on the thank-you which results in less work for you.
For everything else, go with the regular survey option. Add all your questions, if you’re wanting to create the personality quiz, you’ll want to use this tutorial to do it.
Once you’re done creating your survey, just hop on over to the Publish page and click on the embed code you want to use (We recommend the JavaScript embed code because it is the quickest option.)
Then all you have to do is be sure that you’re in your blog’s code editor, and not the WYSIWYG editor, and copy and paste the embed code into your blog post. It’s as easy as that! I’ve added a quick poll to this post, so you can see what it looks like.
As always, if you’re using polls or surveys in your blog, we’d love to hear about how you do it.
Please note – If you’re using a community blog portal (meaning you didn’t install the blog software into your website on your own or you’re not allowed to turn off the WYSIWYG editor), that blog portal will strip the “script” tag and will not allow you to embed the survey into your site.
If you’re using a free blog, your best bet would be to put a link to your survey on your site and then format your survey to look like your site. That way you will create an uninterrupted flow from your site to the survey.
