Read about our latest announcements and best advice

A New Metric To Track Likes On Your Page

February 21, 2020

Today we are introducing a new metric on the Stats page that will help you track the increase of Likes on your Page. The app records the number of Likes when the poll is linked to your page and will stop monitoring after the poll closes or once it's unlinked from the Page. This will give you a good overview of how your fan based increased while the poll was running. This is especially helpful if you added a Like button to your poll and want to track the impact on your Page Likes.

Search And Filter Your Polls

December 19, 2019

Polls for Pages is almost 10 years old and we have many long time customers that created hundreds of polls over the last few years. We heard from these customers that it can be difficult and frustrating to find old polls. At 5 polls per page, it requires a lot of patience to browse back through all previous polls. Today we are happy to finally make it easier to search and filter polls.

How We Protect Your Polls From Cheaters

December 06, 2019

If you run a popular online voting contest where there are prizes to be won, then there is a risk that cheaters will try to rig the results in their favour. A quick Google search shows just how easy it is to buy contest votes off the internet. In this blog post, we explain the different mechanisms that we put in place to detect and prevent fraudulent votes.

Introducing the Smart Quality Score

July 05, 2019

It's hot summer here in Canada and we're hard at work adding new features to your favorite Facebook poll app. Today we are proud to announce the launch of a new tool to help you build better polls. We call it the Smart Quality Score.

Promoting your Poll To Get Better Results

May 22, 2019

When you use Polls for Pages, we give you the tools to share a poll with your friends and fans on Facebook. But sometimes you need to target a larger or more specific audience to get right results. In this blog post, we will show you how to use Facebook advertising tools to give your poll an extra boost and turn it into a success.

Introducing New Image Upload Options

March 19, 2019

Today we are excited to introduce a new image upload dialog that you can use to upload pictures from different sources (Facebook, Instagram, Google, etc.) directly into your polls. You now have the option to crop your images to the right size so they fit perfectly in your poll or on Facebook Timeline.

Track Your Ads Performance With The Facebook Pixel

February 05, 2019

Boosting your poll with a promoted post is a great practice to increase its visibility. This lets you target a specific audience and reach people outside your immediate circle of fans and friends. But how can you track your campaign performance and know how many people actually answered your poll as a result of seeing your ad? How can you re-engage with participants in order to promote your business?

The answer to both these questions lies in the Facebook Pixel. The pixel allows you to track participants so you can assess the effectiveness of your ad campaigns and then target these same participants as a Custom Audience in your next campaigns.

Bulk Import Options for Multiple-Choice Questions

January 11, 2019

When adding a multiple-choice question to a poll, it can be tedious to create each option and type in the different choices. Today we are introducing a new feature to make it easier to import many options at once. When creating a question, look for the "+ Bulk Import" link. When you click that link, a popup opens with a text box where you can type in or paste many options at once.