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Alittle of topic but FYI, It's free atm to add your blog to botw Blogs http://blogs.botw.org/
So if you have a blog, add it. I added mine and get listed within a few months.
They also have strict submission criteria which means they are still a quality directory.
Firstly how long have you been waiting? You can expect waiting times of up to 6 months or more.
Secondly it’s possible a competitor is the editor for that directory but pretty unlikely, it more likely they have a big back log. Or they don't have an editor / active one for that section. You can always try and apply for the editor position yourself (although I've had no luck with this).
DMOZ can be a really powerful link, but it really depends on the section you are trying to get, and how many other listings are already there.
I would submit once and then forget about it and focus on content creation and other areas. Add yourself to BOTW and dir.yahoo.com.
Never hear of these “Submission services” but they sound like waste of money and time.
As stated by Tom, creating useful helpful and interesting content and adding it to your website Is the best long term strategy for link building. Over a long period of time useful articles are highly likely to receive some links. What's often not mention is the value you gain from blog traffic. Even if no one links to your blog you will gain more traffic to your website. I've had many resulting sales due to our blog traffic. Not to mention you will be able to post your blog on blog directories (so you will at least get these links)
You could also create valuable content by building tools/widgets for your industry. Infographics are great to add to your blog and are often popular to share.
Other techniques you could employ is bog commenting (although comments must be relevant and add value to the conversion).
Hold a contest, you will be able to submit to contest website which will link to your contest.
Donate to charity. (often tax refundable, so if you have the budget It can be a win win for the charity and you)
Here's some links to some ideas for link building.
http://www.seomoz.org/blog/8-ways-to-buy-links-without-buying-links
http://pointblankseo.com/link-building-techniques
There are heap of other techniques but you should spend most of your time building or buying valuable content. Think of high quality content as assets. While other techniques are often just expenses.
Does having links without or with irrelent (such as your name on blog comments) anchor text improve your SERP ranking?
This is my favorite, Very helpful ideas!
http://www.seomoz.org/blog/8-ways-to-buy-links-without-buying-links
They updated Linkscape every month, https://seomoz.zendesk.com/entries/345964-linkscape-update-schedule
You can added it to your calendar https://seomoz.zendesk.com/entries/345964-linkscape-update-schedule
You should worry more about your SERP. If you are improving your results then your doing the right thing.
Yes, I believe it does. I find if one of my article gets retweeted, digged, etc.. my blog post gets on to the first page of google. It also get crawled by google way faster.
Read this article... http://www.seomoz.org/blog/facebook-twitters-influence-google-search-rankings
Could SEOMOZ make a tool that Crawls Internal Links that's connected (or crawls) directly from Webmaster Tools? (So link metrics on our domains would get updates more often) This would eliminate the cost of crawling the entire internet.
I hate having to wait a month to see updates on my domain metrics and links. I would like to see updates regularly on my own domain.
I understand you can just look at Webmaster tools to see your latest links but they don't have any link metrics. So it’s difficult to see your best links.
If this already exists please refer me? Otherwise please show your support for this being developed?