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Finding out what your users think about your content (or what they want from your website) can be a challenge. Analytics tools can provide you with most of the metrics you need, but sometimes numbers alone aren’t enough to figure out the problem. You could, however, ask your audience directly if you set up a WordPress poll.<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n

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The benefits of setting up a poll on your WordPress website \ud83d\udcdd<\/h2>\n\n\n\n

An online poll poses a question to an audience, and provides them with enough options to give you a relevant response for your research. Through a poll, you get to know your audience better and create consumer profiles based on the answers that you receive. Depending on the question, you might need more than a simple “Yes” or “No”, for example:<\/p>\n\n\n

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While a simple “Yes” or “No” might suffice in that case, adding more options can provide you with more accurate results. The same applies to all online polls in general. If you make a point of asking the questions your audience cares about (and provide them with a decent set of options), they’ll reward you with some excellent data.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Once in your hands, you can use the gathered survey results to tailor your content to your visitors’ interests. That way, you can turn a simple WordPress online poll into a long-term engagement boost.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In general terms, there are several types of polls<\/a>, ranging from the simplest (‘Yes\/No’<\/em>) to those that pose several questions successively (i.e. surveys). For this article, we’ll be dealing only with basic multi-option online polls, and how to set them up using a WordPress poll plugin<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n

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How to set up a WordPress poll in 3 steps \ud83d\udcca<\/h2>\n\n\n\n

In this guide, we\u2019ll show you how to set up a WordPress poll in just three simple steps using the YOP Poll<\/a> plugin. It\u2019s lightweight, beginner-friendly, and gives you everything you need to create, publish, and track polls in minutes. Let\u2019s get started.<\/p>\n\n\n\n