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 like InterServer have included many poll and survey software as part of their hosting plans. After logging into your control panel look for Fantastico / simplescripts / Softaculous script installer. If you are using Joomla, Drupal or wordpress blog etc 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
Fantastico , Simplescripts and softaculous all are 1 click installers that help you install popular software with minimal hassle. Most of the popular web hosts already have included following these installers as part of your web hosting control panel. Once you login to your Cpanel, you can install following poll software using these installers with minimal hassle and it is quicker. InterServer web is a very good example for this. You can install following popular poll scripts in Interserver web hosting plan.
- 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
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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.
InterServer, an award winning web host , has poll software integrated into its shared hosting packages. Signup for InterServer and take advantage of this integrated feature