If you participate in any SEO competition and you have to give only 5 best links in all. Where you will have to post your 5 best links?
DMOZ, Yahoo Diretory and 3 in-incontent links on some old, established domains related to my niche Enough with dreams, now back to work!
If you will promote your site in dmoz, yahoo and other how will you get approval quick it may take 2-3 months and more. Then what about competition.
People never refuse money for some small favors Get in touch with some of the moderators and see what could be done.
My choices would be: Digg Squidoo (create lens) feedage (submit rss feed) feedfury (submit rss feed) feedbite(submit rss feed)
I can't see a single site in any competitive niche ranking high thanks to backlinks from Digg & Squidoo
To get listed in search engines fast i do * Web CEO ( Submitting site to search engines ) * Google Webmaster Tools ( Google sitemap is very essential ) * Digg and some social bookmarking sites. * DMOZ and i get listed in 2-3 days This is the best way
Google Webmaster Tools, digg, DMOZ, Yahoo Diretory, and same related (high pr and aged site)site for link building.