Iam completely lost. Maybe Im using the wrong tools. I checked Yahoo Site explorer along with some other webmaster tools. Ive done like 4 directory submissions, 90% of my links were approved. This is within the last 3 months, I know for sure the sites have been crawled. Why are they not showing up as backlinks?
Maybe try finding the page that your site is listed on in each directory and pinging the search engines to spider that page. Not sure if that would work, but it might be worth a try.
Directories take some time to get indexed but 3 months might be too long. You can try google webmaster tools as well.
Don't waste time checking to see if you're backlinks have been indexed . . . . you'll never get anywhere like that . . . just keep building them Keep going, and don't just rely on directories, you need links from allover!
I have had zero luck from submitting sites to directories. But anyways there will always be a delay in the results when they're shown on Yahoo site explorer. Why don't you put your site as a signature link? That's a quick way to get some links up and going.