Where is the 'poll' part?   I see an article with seven sections, each referencing another post, but I don't see any user interactivity where members can select a choice and hit a 'Submit' button.

The link to the previous post utilizing a poll is on the words "how interested".  For now members of our community can write posts with questions to create their own polls. However, adding poll options in our posts could be a possible future feature. Thanks for clarifying!

Still don't see it, and I inferred 'Try a post with a poll' to mean that EE posts now have polling functionality, and not that an EE post has a link to go to an outside page with a poll.

Also, any chance you guys can spend more time optimizng Google search results to include EE questions and articles to attracting more members, rather that participating in social justice?  I'm practically falling asleep in my zones from the low volume of questions.

Hey Jim on the off topic concerns, we are seeing an increase in traffic overall based on our efforts. See more information here
http://blog.experts-exchange.com/ee-blog/community-update/

I looked at the stats for the My SQL Server topic and the questions asked, excluding deleted, were up year over year for April and May but saw a decline in June. I'll see if I can find further indications why this is the case.

One thing I use that you may find useful is Google Trends. It can help you see how in general search terms are trending.

https://trends.google.com/trends/explore?date=2015-06-12%202017-07-12&q=%2Fm%2F0120vr

We are very interested in the health of topics, feel free to message me if you have some further insights or concerns.

(reading for the first time)  Nice article.  Gotta like that action.  I suppose it's difficult to interpret results and do a cause-and-effect to what EE initiative led to the increase(s) in volume.    

It was very unexpected when Gene agreed to sponsor my SQL Saturday last year, to include free memberships, and was disappointed when that didn't translate to signups.  Perhaps I need to rattle a few cages in my local SQL community.

One thing I never really understood (keep in mind I'm not an SEO guy) is why tags were discontinued from articles in place of the question title.  Last year I tried doing a Google search for keywords that should have resulted in my articles in the search results (SQL Server GROUP BY, SQL Server CASE, etc.) and results were not that hot.  

For some reason my two Requirements Document Template articles get significantly higher views then the other articles.   Maybe I just nailed the title correctly.  A Google search for 'requirement document template reporting' shows my article as #2.