I mentioned that I have more than ten blogs and websites and a friend asked me how I could manage them all. Well, filling them with original content is not that difficult. The difficult part is building readership, comments and most of all, link popularity.

Sometime back, I read that submitting our URL to as many web directories as possible will improve our link popularity. As you know, I am so busy working that I do not have the time to submit all my sites manually. Of course, I know there are many automatic link submitters but none that I tried worked well enough.

I also thought of engaging the services of companies that offer web submission services for a fee but my friend had a bad experience and that put me off from paying for my web submission.

Just now, I was told of a human edited web directory called Max Directory that is free for us to submit our blogs and websites with a reciprocal link back. However, because this is a human edited directory, we would have to pay $5 for the review process and get Standard listing or pay $10 for the cost of review AND Express listing. Naturally, if you have selected Express listing, your listing will appear above those with Standard listings.

If you think that it is not worth paying $5, consider this: Human edited web directory is of better quality than web directory that do not have a human reviewer to review their listings hence all and any links could be listed, bringing down the quality of the web directory as a whole.

Navigation of the site is really very user-friendly however, the only improvement I would like is to make submission easier with a prominent link on the top bar to a submission form instead of having to browse to a most appropriate category and submit from there.

I just realized that although I have written more than five thousand posts since I became a blogger slightly more than two years ago, I have not once posted a poll on my blog for my readers. I didn’t feel the need to do any survey or make little questionnaires.

Just now, I was given the chance to check out a website that offers free polls for blogs and websites. The good thing about this poll service is that we do not require any HTML technical knowledge or coding. We just need to sign up for an account and input our questions and select options to create polls which we can then embed on our site.

I did not sign up for an account but I can see that there are many color options to select from to match the color of our site and these polls are not only free but also easy to use.

I know that this company is the same one that offers free web counters that I wrote about last night so I expect these polls to have a link back to a poker site again. However, you just have to ask yourself if you mind linking to a poker site and if your readers mind that too in exchange for free use of a web tool.