Webdev,
You hit the nail on the head with your comment about you were offering something useful on your php site. Do something different that other PHP tutorial sites aren't doing and people will link to you voluntarily just because your site is different.
I get e-mails all the time from people thanking me for providing something no one else does. That is key. Be thorough in whatever niche you're targeting and present the content in a way your competitors aren't. People will gladly link to you voluntarily.
Stumbleupon has brought my fitness site an AMAZING amount of traffic and I had never even been there to register until recently. I remember I hadn't even heard of the site but kept seeing it show up in my referrer logs.
As you said Webdev, it's a combination of so many factors. I think if you work at building them all, Google will eventually show you love. And DMOZ is so overrated now. 5-6 years ago it was a must-have link and a guaranteed Google listing, now you can get in with the many strategies we've discussed here.
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