Some of you are probably thinking: Why polls? Whether you have a tech site, news site, entertainment site, travel site or any other niche site, polls are such a great way to interact with your audience. It is an excellent way to get quick feedback from your audience and a fast way to create audience participation and thus generate organic content for your site.
In fact, some of the best web hosting companies included many poll and survey software with their hosting. After logging into your control panel look for Fantastico / simplescripts / Softaculous script installer. If you are using Joomla, Drupal or wordpress blog ect there are plugins and extensions available for free for adding poll feature. Here is a list of PHP / ASP.NET / AJAX poll and survey software for your website.
Fantastico / simplescripts / Softaculous Poll Scripts
- Advanced Poll – polling system which allows you to create free polls and place them on your website, email, blog, MySpace, hi5, Friendster, Xanga, etc. Main features: create multiple polls, change templates, IP-Logging, IP-Locking, cookie support etc.
- phpESP – a PHP/MySQL-driven application that let you create complex and advanced surveys, view results in real time, and carry out advanced analysis ect.
- LimeSurvey – is an open source PHP application that allows you to develop, publish and manage surveys. If you do not have Cpanel hosting, get LimeSurvey here.
- CJ Dynamic Poll
- EasyPoll
- LittlePoll
- Simple PHP
- Aardvark Topsites
ASP.NET Poll scripts
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- ASP.NET Online Quiz with use of XML
- ASP.NET WEB QUIZ Price: $149.00
- ASP Poll System
- PollPro Polling Software Price: $69.00
AJAX Poll scripts
With Ajax poll script, you can vote and display the polling results asynchronously without interfering with the display and behavior of the existing page.
PHP poll script
- PHPPoll – Price: $9.95. You can create text polls, image polls or text and image polls. 3 Types of Polls: Single answer radio buttons, multiple answer check boxes and drop-down menus.
- DreamPoll Price: $26.97. You can create as many as polls you like. It prevents multiple votes from the same computer and from one IP address. It has a powerful and easy-to-use Admin Control Panel.
Hosted Poll services
- MyKuiz.com – Free flash-based poll widget for your sites. Create and share unlimited amount of polls, with comment posting functions.
- 99Polls – Free Remotely Hosted FLASH Poll Service.
- LuckyPolls.com – Add a free poll to your web site without any programming and script installation.
- Simple Polls
- MakeSurvey Price: $9/month. MakeSurvey can process internet and email surveys.
- LetsGoVOTE – SMS-Based surveys, polls. Price:$39/month. Users can participate in pools by sending email or SMS.
