How to get people to VOTE and take part in Quizzes?

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   Lovelli Fuadposted 6 years ago

   To get people to engage more with my articles, I have used the quizz and vote capsules. Yes or no answer to questions related to the topic, asking for reader opinions, and just a general quizz about the content.
   
   I'm not getting any vote at all or any answer to these quizzes. But I see some random articles are generating tons of quiz answers and poll results. Is there a way to effectively promote quizzes? How do you get people to actually vote on your polls on HP?
   
   Should I include the keyword "quiz" in my title or summary, or add it in the introductory paragraph? I'm not confident enough to experiment with these, but I'm actively browsing through hubs to learn how other hubbers do it. I'd love to learn from any best practices or anything et al that may have worked.

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      charlesnuamahposted 6 years agoin reply to this

      I was going to say it's highly dependent on how engaging your article is but checked your profile and saw you have been awarded the engaging writer accolade and so there is a high chance that isn't the problem.
      
      I think most people online are quickly searching for answers and so only a few will invest their precious time to take part in a poll. It ultimately comes down to the amount of traffic the article receives considering its engagement isn't compromised.
      
      For instance, if an article receives around 400 views a day, there is a high chance that at least 2 nice people will take part in its poll every day. On the other hand, if an article receives around only 20 views per day, there is less chance of finding those nice people.

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         Lovelli Fuadposted 6 years agoin reply to this

         And it's not like hubbers have a record of each and every quiz taker, right? So if I go to a hub and took part in a poll or submitted an answer, the hubber would not be able to know it's me and might not be able to reciprocate either.
         
         So relying on external visits from nice people, which is what I've been doing for 4 years...
         
         How do I get near 400 views a day, though?

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            DrMark1961posted 6 years agoin reply to this

            About 10-20% of your articles will provide the majority of your views. If you are not up to 400 page views in any of your articles you need to write more. (20 articles and only 10% doing well. Not much chance to do well there.)
            You have been on here a long time but have very few articles. There is a small chance of being successful with a few articles, but you should not count on it. The only way you are going to start doing better is if you work a lot more on this site and write something that is going to be successful.
            (Your profile points out that you are a freelance writer, so this may or may not be worth your time. If it is, then you will get more responses to your quizzes, as the other posters have pointed out.)

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               Lovelli Fuadposted 6 years agoin reply to this

               I don't know how you got that number DrMark, but that does seem to be the deal with my current set of articles   . I have 22, and about 4 to 5 articles are generating the most views on a normal day, according to HP stats. At least since October.
               
               Some of my hubs on niche sites perform *as if* they were published on HubPages.com (0 to 1 views daily). They'll stay within that range if I don't share on any social media network - I usually share on Twitter, Pinterest, Facebook, etc.
               
               If the majority of my hubs are going to behave as such, then I need to publish hundreds more to make it.

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                  DrMark1961posted 6 years agoin reply to this

                  Sorry I cannot recall the name of that rule. It has been discussed a lot in some other forum posts on writing but for some reason the name does not stick with me. (I like to believe that it has been replaced by more current info. The other alternative, that I am just getting old and forgetting things, is not so good!)
                  I too have plenty of niche site articles that only get a few views a day. Since I have almost 300 articles though I have about 30 that get lots of traffic, the best of them getting close to 1000 a day. It is impossible to predict (in my opinion) which articles is going to do so well, so you just have to write more and be willing to accept that some of them never take off.
                  (I have pretty much stopped sharing on social media. When I did, there was sometimes an improved number of page views but not a corresponding increase in impressions or income. I do not think it is worth my time anymore.)

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   eugbugposted 6 years ago

   Maybe bribe them somehow

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      Lovelli Fuadposted 6 years agoin reply to this

      Good thinking. What do you suggest I try?

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         eugbugposted 6 years agoin reply to this

         I only have quizzes on one technical article. The questions are set problems based on the content of the article and readers have to work out the answers. I suppose the reward they get is satisfaction in getting the answers right. Maybe if there was a roll of honour and people with the highest scores could enter their name (like on some game sites), it would be an incentive to participate in quizzes.

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            Lovelli Fuadposted 6 years agoin reply to this

            Yeah, like the points, badges and ladder (PBL) used in gamification! That's a nice idea, eubug. That would certainly appeal to gamers and some of the students will get an extra kick out of completing quizzes online.
            
            I've been thinking about doing some sort of contest, like.. um, email the author if you reached 100 percent on the quiz and get a free digital freebie emailed to you. Send proof (screenshot) of your amazing score via email, with your name, and email to so-and-so and get a link to download the prize. (Only the first 10 will be rewarded, so this has to be a quick one)

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