How to Use the Google Blogger Poll Gadget

By Susan Gunelius

Use the Google Blogger Poll gadget to make your blog interactive. You can add a survey to ask your blog visitors anything you want by simply adding this gadget to your blog. Polls are fun and a great way to get visitors who may just be lurkers to come out of the woodwork and actively participate in your blog's community. Create a multiple-choice poll:

Open your Blogger account.

Your Blogger dashboard appears.

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Select the Layout link on your Blogger dashboard.

The Page Elements page opens.

Click the Add a Gadget link.

The Add a Gadget window appears.

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In the Add a Gadget window, click the plus sign (+) to the right of Poll.

The Create a Poll window opens.

In the Question text box, type your poll question.

Make sure you type a multiple-choice question.

In the Answers text boxes, type the various answers you want your blog readers to choose from.

If you have fewer answers than boxes provided, click the Remove link next to empty boxes to eliminate them from your poll. Alternately, if you have more answers than boxes, click the Add Another Answer link to add more answer boxes to your poll.

If you want your blog readers to have the option to select more than one answer to your poll, select the appropriate check box.

The check box is labeled Allow Visitors to Select Multiple Answers.

In the Poll Closing Date and Time text boxes, enter the date and time you want your poll to close to new responses.

If you want your poll to have a specific end date, enter it here so that visitors no longer have the ability to cast votes or answer your poll question after the expiration date and time.