When summer closes in, most people have their vacations coming up. During these times, many of them are thinking about where to go, making it an excellent opportunity for any website. Using a simple web poll, it is easy to attract interest and present your visitors with a highly relevant ad from a travel affiliate program.

Affiliate marketers mainly use affiliate programs in their own niche, simply because their visitors are likely to be interested in those kinds of products. But what if you could present visitors interested in something completely different with a highly targeted ad? That should convert very well, shouldn't it?

The hard part is, of course, to find out which visitors are interested in a certain type of product and to make it possible to present only those visitors with that particular ad. This is where a web poll comes in handy; it is a great way to see what people are interested in.

Consider a question such as; 'Are you going on vacation this summer?' with only Yes and No as answers. Those answering yes are very likely to be converting well if presented with a vacation or travel affiliate program.

A more specific question may give you even more information as to what products to promote; 'Where would you want to spend your vacation?' would give you an excellent opportunity to present them with an ad for the destination they would LIKE to spend their vacation at. It is hard to find ads more targeted than that.

For websites with high volumes of visitors, this type of poll can easily be changed every so often to make sure as many visitors interests are covered.

This method can be used in many different ways ? not at all limited to travel affiliate programs. Asking people questions about their favorite things will give you the possibility to present them with just the right product.

To make a web poll suited for your website, you can try a simple search on google for 'web poll' or similar, or try polldaddy.com for easy and customizable web polls. Not much knowledge about HTML is needed, it's pretty straight forward.

Making different web polls for different areas of your website will further increase the chances of someone being presented with the right banner or text-ad, intriguing them enough to check it out.

Another very good side effect of using polls as a way to gain affiliate commission is the huge amount of information gathered. Every time a visitor answers a poll, you gain a little more insight in the mind of your general audience.

This information is a perfect tool for choosing affiliate programs for the entire website. For every poll you launch, you will come one small step closer to presenting ALL your visitors with at least one perfect ad.

Once you have the web poll figured out, it's easy to find new ways of utilizing it; the simplicity of the visitors interaction makes it useful for feedback on your website, on a specific topic or to figure out what your visitors are interested in.