Tips on creating surveys

Surveys are a great way to add interaction to your site/blog, and to find out what your client base is thinking.

Listed below are a couple of things I’ve learned from experience.

• You can put a survey in a post or a page. [Post if you email out to subscribers and want them to see it - Page if you want them to see it only when they visit your blog.]
• Surveys don’t like punctuation.  Use ‘do not’ instead of don’t.
• You can create more than one question and it adds a ‘next’ button automatically.
• Plan your survey on paper first, thinking through the ‘if you answered yes…’ , ‘if you answered no’ and test it first.
• If you only have a single question use a poll instead of a survey.
• Difference between a poll and a survey is the results.  Anyone can see the poll results.  Survey results are private and stored in admin.

I hope this helps you. Today’s challenge is to create a survey or a poll.  I will have more blogging challenges as we go along this journey together.

Marian