How To Embed A Google Form Into Your Website + Better Alternative

Online forms, including the popular Google Forms, are highly effective tools that can be utilized for various purposes like gathering data, understanding the preferences of your audience, and capturing potential leads.

While Google Forms are known for their user-friendly interface and cost-free use, they do have their share of constraints, particularly when it comes to embedding these forms onto a website or other platforms.

So, here is a step-by-step guide on how to embed your Google Form onto your website. Additionally, we will have a look at some of the limitations Google forms have and how to overcome them using our involve.me tool.

In brief, involve.me is an excellent tool that allows you to easily create interactive, engaging content for your desired purpose. Most importantly, it makes embedding forms as easy as one could wish for. Stay tuned, we will get to it later in this article.

Let's start!

How To Embed Google Forms in a Wordpress Website

To embed a Google Form just follow these 9 simple steps:

1. Go to the top of your screen, and click the button that says ‘Send'.

You will then get to a screen which gives you three different options for embedding your form.

The first option allows you to send your form in an email. Simply enter the email addresses that you want to send the form to and it will do that for you.

The second option allows you to copy and paste a URL to embed your form as a link to different places.

2. Click on the < > icon. Here you get an iframes code that you can copy and paste into your website. You can also change the width and length of the form in this window.

3. Copy the embed code displayed.

4. Head over to your Wordpress website.

5. Either create a new page or click on the + button at the top left corner of your screen.

6. Once in the editor, press the + button that is on the page.

7. After pressing the + button, a pop up window will appear where you will need to select custom HTML.

8. Paste the iframes embed code you copied from Google Forms into the HTML text box.

9. Click on ‘Preview’ to see how your form looks on your Wordpress website.

So now when you publish your post and you view it, you will see your Google Form embedded in your Wordpress.

It's quite simple to do this, however Google Forms has its limitations because it doesn't have a lot of design features which makes it look very generic. It doesn't stand out and capture people's attention.

Additionally, it doesn't allow you to change the size of the iframe. This might create a very unpleasant user-experience. The contents of your form might be cut off and your users will need to scroll in the frame offered which can be quite challenging and also doesn't look visually appealing on your website.

Furthermore, Google Forms lacks responsiveness meaning it will look different in different browsers. A Google Form that looks spectacular in Google Chrome might look like a messy blob in another browser like Safari. This also means that Google Forms isn't the most mobile-friendly either.

The good news is, there are professional form builders, like involve.me where you can create unique, personalized, and responsive forms where you get more flexibility in design and functionality.

And the most incomparable feature of involve.me is that you are able to mimic a conversation with your customers more than a Google Form can.

While Google Forms only allows you to list your questions, involve.me guides you through a set of questions with the ability of having multiple pages in your project. This creates more of a conversation with your audience rather than a long list of questions.

The Best Way To Embed Forms Into Any Website

involve.me not only allows you to personalize your form to a much greater extent than Google Forms, but it also allows for greater flexibility when it comes to embedding it onto your website. It is 100% mobile-friendly and it is consistent across all browsers.

This fantastic tool will help you excel in 3 very important aspects of online forms which will hopefully help you get more leads!

1. Keep It Responsive

Your form receives traffic from many different sources. Social media platforms, emails or just organic traffic to your website attract audiences on every type of device. And you wouldn't want them to click away because your form isn't loading correctly.

A responsive form looks beautiful and works flawlessly on desktop as well as on mobile devices. Basic form builders like Google Forms are rarely optimized to adjust to various screen sizes.

involve.me automatically generates the size of the iframe that would fit the purpose of your form, however if you don't like the size it automatically generated, you can always customize the size as you would like it to be.

2. Keep It on Brand

Your form is often your audience's first touch point with your brand. Having your company colours, fonts and logo in your forms will increase brand recognition. Branded form design creates unique and memorable customer interactions instead of just data submissions.

Using involve.me instead of Google Forms, may just be the right alternative for you. To start off, involve.me has over 200 templates that you can use for whatever purpose you need it for.

3. Keep It Smart & Personal

High-conversion form techniques like the one-question per page approach get astronomically better results. As opposed to regular forms 10% conversion rate, one-question per page forms get a 63% conversion rate. By using involve.me you get more leads from the same amount of traffic.

One-question per page also allows you to decide what happens after specific answers are selected - different follow up questions can be asked or skipped thanks to logic jump. Or an entirely different part of your website can load thanks to custom redirects.

involve.me is overall a more personal, branded conversation with your audience.

How to Make a Branded Form Without Coding?

Just head over to our Templates Hub . For this guide, I will use the Hello Yellow Sign Up Form .

involve.me allows for a variety of personalization features.

You have design options ranging from the background image, font size, style, and color all the way to how many pages you would like on your form, different question types, inserting images and videos, and several additional features which makes involve.me super flexible in design and functionality.

You can even upload your own fonts!

We have several playlists on YouTube with videos all about the attractive features available on involve.me, so if you want to get to know the platform a bit better definitely check those out.

How To Embed an involve.me Form in Wordpress

You have 6 options when it comes to embedding your involve.me project into your Wordpress. You can either do it in a standard form, as a full page, as a pop up, chat button, side panel and side tab.

Here I will show you how to do it in the standard way.

Once you have created your form using involve.me’s pre-built form templates, locate the form's unique embed code in the 'Share' or 'Embed' section and copy it.

Now, switch to your WordPress site and use the WordPress block editor to insert the form code snippet. Switch to the text editor mode, click on the 'Widget' tab, select 'Custom HTML', and paste the code.

Then, when you preview or publish your Wordpress page, your involve.me form will look bright, unique, and majestic.

As you can see, involve.me is a much better tool to use if you are looking for more customized design features as well as a more responsive platform that is easier to embed into your website for different types of purposes.

You can be sure that your contact forms will look incredible no matter what browser or technology you are viewing it from. Most importantly, it will stand out and capture your user's attention! and it doesn't require any coding skills from your side!

Now it's your turn, start creating now an interactive form with involve.me!