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What is a Polling Booth Page?

This feature lets you post multiple choice questions that your visitors can answer online. The answers are automatically graphed on a web page that can be accessed by anyone. You can add several different polls on your page. The newest poll shows in full while older polls are archived but still accessible for voting.

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Great way to get feedback from your visitors.
Allows visitors to interact with your site.
Good way to get input on various issues.

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Overview

Adding a Polling Booth Page
Editing Your Page
Adding a Poll
Layout Options
Editing or Deleting a Poll
Viewing the Results of Your Polls
Editing Your Title Tag, Meta Tag and Header Info

1. Adding a Polling Booth Page

Under the 'Edit Site' tab, click 'Add Page'.
Click 'Polling Booth'.

Name your new page. This name is what will be shown in your navigation menu.
Enter a 'Page URL'. This creates the individual webpage address for that page. TIP: Use keywords or words that reflect the content that will be on that page.

By default, the 'Check to show this page in your navigation menu' box is checked. If you do not want the page to show in your menu, uncheck the box.

Click 'Add Page'.

You'll then be on the editing page.

2. Editing Your Page

Any time you want to make changes to your page:

Click the 'Edit Site' tab.
Click 'Edit' beside the page you want to edit.

Or, if viewing the page you want to edit, click 'Edit Page' on the toolbar.

You'll then be on the 'Header & Footer' section of the editing page.

Text that you put in the Title and Subtitle fields will be displayed at the top of your page, with the Title text also being automatically used as your Title Tag. For more information about Tags, please read Page Title, Meta & Head Tags.

The Header and Footer appear above and below your polls once they're added. To edit the header and footer, add and make changes to text using the text editor and click 'Save Changes' when finished.

3. Adding a Poll

Within the editing page, click 'Add Poll' on the left.
Enter your info and then click 'Add'.

NOTE: You can use html code in the 'Answers' text boxes to insert images if you like.

4. Layout Options

You can choose whether to hide the poll results from a visitor until they've answered the poll. You can also choose the color of the bars in the results bar graph. Within the editing page, click 'Options' on the left. Make sure to save your changes.

5. Editing or Deleting a Poll

Within the editing page, click 'Edit Polls' on the left.
Click 'Edit' or the red 'X' to the right of the poll you want to edit or delete. If editing, make sure to save your changes. If deleting, confirm or cancel deletion.

6. Viewing the Results of Your Polls

Both you and the visitors to your site can see the poll results by going to your Polls page and clicking 'See Results' button.

The results display in a horizontal bar graph. The number of votes is shown in brackets for each answer.

7. Editing Your Title Tag, Meta Tag and Header Info

To help with search engine ranking you can customize your title, description, and keyword tags for individual pages. Advanced users can also place code between the <head> tags. This feature is available through the editing page under 'Internet Marketing'. To learn more, please read Page Title, Meta & Head Tags.

Alternatively, you can apply the same description and keyword tags site-wide, which is great if you don't yet have time to do them for individual pages. To learn how, please read Marketing Your Site: Meta Keywords and Meta Description.