No risk, no fun.
learn from your mistakes that is the best way.. noone here will make you rich you must learn test your self. Thats what i know from my experience. Although in my beginning i wished people to hand me methods too cuz it was really hard. But u must pass through any tough spot to become the king.
Yeah you can't be afraid to test link building methods. As a matter of fact being scared is the #1 thing that will hold you back from success. Build 5 sites with 10 pages of unique content, test one diff. link building method on each of them, and scale the one that works best. You'd be fucking amazed how few people actually do this, and just spend all day reading and learning instead of taking action.Dont be scared, set up multiple sites, and use a few to test the waters out.