I took the plunge with ahrefs... my start point is first to fix all the seo issues reported, you know the basic stuff like title, H1, meta bla bla.
I also got scrapebox and GSA SER....
Use Ahrefs for competitor scraping of backlinks, try to build tier 1 manually.... then create web 2.0 links for tier 2 . use scrapebox to scrape my niche keywords and blog sites.... blast them with gsa ser with the web 2.0 links and hopefully it will pass juice to the Tier 1 then on to the money site.... at least that is what looks safest in my eyes for now and long term seo.... any input on that strategy ?
p.s. both articles and comments will be manual, no spinning