Learn more about your Wordpress readers with a GlowDay poll!

Whether you use it to promote your business or just to keep an online diary, wordpress is one of the most customisable and popular blogging tools around. Whilst GlowDay is great for having fun comparing your tastes and interests with your friends, it could also be a very useful marketing tool for finding out more about your blog readers and what posts they like to read.

Create a poll for your wordpress blog

• First sit down and have a think about how many questions you'd like to ask then click 'start' at the top of the screen to select your survey widget's size.
• You can enter your online poll's question and possible answers on this page, or customise the entire widget from scratch by selecting the 'Advanced' option.
• Once you're happy with your survey widget box click 'continue'.
• The widget designer screen is where you have all sorts of options for customising your online poll - you can add text, images and even YouTube videos so it grabs your readers' attention. Simply drag and drop the box of the feature you'd like to add to your online poll, and then edit it in the properties box.
• To add an image, drag and drog the 'Image' box onto your survey widget. In the properties box you can add an image you've found online simply by entering its web address in the 'Image URL' box. Or you can search through Photobuckets 1000s of user submitted images simply by typing in a keyword.
• Remember to add a 'Vote Button' for your readers to click on so that GlowDay can record their answers.
• When your survey widget is ready to go, click on 'Publish'.

Publishing your Wordpress survey widget

• GlowDay provides two easy options for publishing your online poll - you can copy the code into Wordpress or click on the Wordpress 'quick post' button.
• The Wordpress editor for writing posts will be familiar to any keen blogger. Simply switch it to code view mode and then paste the code provided on GlowDay's 'Your Widget is Ready' screen. Click 'Publish' and your online poll will immediately be posted onto your blog and sent to all your subscribers.
• If you'd prefer to use the 'quick post' Wordpress button simply click on it, enter your username, password and what you'd like the title to be.* After a few seconds your online poll will then be posted straight into your Wordpress blog, ready to start taking votes.
• GlowDay is the perfect tool for livening up your Wordpress blog. Adding free surveys, polls and YouTube clips for readers to vote on will not only teach you more about the content people want to see, but will also make your blog more entertaining and attract more readers as a result.
• Start creating your own Survey!

* GlowDay is committed to providing a secure, safe to use service and will not share your login information with any third parties.