Quibblo.com Has Polls and Quizzes for Your Blog or Website!

by Joi on June 13, 2007

I find the best sites and products through sponsored advertising! That’s, of course, where companies pay bloggers, like me, to review them. They aren’t paying for a thumb’s up or a thumb’s down, per se…they’re just paying for use of our thumbs. Where we point them is pretty much up to us.

Fortunately for all involved, if someone’s willing to pay someone to review them, they’re confident in what they have to offer - and, experience has taught me that this confidence exists for a good reason. What they have is good, and they know it.

So, yes, the following is a sponsored review post about a website - but it’s also a website and a service that I’m more excited about than any I’ve seen in a while.

Why the Hubbub, bub? Quibblo.com is just what I’ve been looking for….and if you have a blog or a website, it’s what you’ve been looking for, too, even if you don’t realize it.

You sign up with Quibblo - which takes under 2 minutes - then you’re able to create a poll of your own. You select the question, the answers, and even decide if your visitor gets to select one or more than one answer. It’s not only fun for you as well as your visitors - it lets you get in and poke around inside their mind. You could, conceivably, ask them which part of your website/blog is their favorite, what they’d like to see added to your website/blog, what topics they’d like to see you discuss, what subject they’d be interested in seeing another blog about, etc.

I have actually put up two polls already! I put one on my Self Help Blog, Self Help Daily. I’ll keep an eye on the answers and will be able to tell how I can most serve my visitors. If they want more information on Relationships, for example, I can then work twice as hard reading more about and researching this particular field. I can get inside their minds and see what they’d really like to know more about…..rather than just giving them what I assume they want to know more about.

I’ve also put a poll on one of my Celeb websites - Keira Knightley Fans . We’re always on the look-out for new celeb sites to put up, but we have a limited knowledge about which celebs fans would be the most interested in - which celebs they’d frequently visit a website for. By putting polls up on the websites we have……websites with great traffic from fans who have proven their interest level and loyalty…. we can, again, get inside their minds and find out what they’d be most interested in - and most likely to visit!

Then, when we have the website ready to launch, we can post a message on that particular website (in this case, the Keira site) and say something like, “Here’s the website you asked for!….” The fans instantly feel a kinship with this site - after all, they’re responsible for it’s launch!

If you have a website or blog about, say, dogs in general - you could ask which breed your visitors would be most interested in reading more information about. Then, if, say…. Bulldog won, you could either:
1. Write more posts/articles about this handsome breed of dog - and one of my alltime faves, btw. I have an invisible bulldog named Duchess, but I don’t like to brag.
2. Put up a blog devoted entirely to bulldogs with a group of visitors you can count on.
3. Or…you could start making some extra Christmas money by preparing an e-b00k all about Bulldogs. (Duchess is available for interviews - but her rates are ridiculous.)

Of course, you could simply use the polls to provide a little extra fun for your visitors. You could put them on your MySpace or personal blog to gauge your visitor’s views and opinions on anything from Paris Hilton to Global Warming.

Check out Quibblo.com and make a poll or quiz today - or, do like me and go completely wild. I’ve only just begun….so, yes, watch for one on this blog later today!

Joi

P.S. Again, the above was a sponsored post - but all of the raving and exclamation points were purely mine.