If you had to start link building from scratch today...

jonesarcher · Jul 9, 2026

Imagine you launched a brand-new site with no backlinks.
What would be the first thing you'd focus on during the first 30 days, and what would you avoid completely?
There are so many different opinions, so I'd like to hear what has actually worked for people here.

Steptoe · Jul 9, 2026

I'd start with every free entity/citation platform, with an aim to get my site recognised as a proper entity. Then some broken link outreach, and work on link bait opportunities (tools/data etc). No tiering for the first few months, then hit the citations I built earlier.

alwaysrank · Jul 11, 2026

I'd focus on social sharing in the first 30 days to get some initial visibility and bring real visitors while publishing quality content consistently.

Nikolaos · Jul 15, 2026

jonesarcher said:
Imagine you launched a brand-new site with no backlinks.
What would be the first thing you'd focus on during the first 30 days, and what would you avoid completely?
There are so many different opinions, so I'd like to hear what has actually worked for people here.

I would focus on proper content creation and getting high quality guest posts from day 1.

RyanCrawls · Jul 15, 2026

i wouldd spend the first month figuring out which pages are actually worth building links to. I've made the mistake of putting links into pages that were later merged, rewritten, or changed. Now I wait until the content has settled before investing in backlinks.

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