You've Created A Website, Now What?

Scenario

You've created a website within a niche that is semi-difficult. Your main keyword has a difficulty of around 40/100 with some reasonable players in the SERP, but nothing unachievable. You have built the site, optimised On-Page, Content etc, now it's time to get the site ranking through Links, Citations etc.

What do you do? Tiered Links? Redirects?

Would your process dramatically change depending on budget, say client 1 with no budget but client 2 with loads?

Currently looking to fine-tune my process a bit, get rid of the BS and become more efficient.

Of course, I'm not looking for industry secrets here, just wondering more about how others would approach it!

before jumping into link building make sure that the money pages of your website (the pages you wish to rank for, and make money off) are indexed. If they're not indexed it makes no sense to build links to them.

After that - and since your website is new - go slowly with link building. Only build a few links per month for a few months and increase their number gradually as time goes by until your money pages rank where you want them to rank. Now, since the niche is "semi-difficult" (whatever this means), you will probably need a fair amount of backlinks (quality ones, too), so going straight for quality PBNs and / or guest posts is the best approach. You will still want to throw some social media, profile and forum links in the mix, though, just to diversify your backlinking profile so that it looks natural (a new website that's interesting to people gets mentions / links from all sorts of weird places, not just from guest posts, which is why you want to get a diverse array of backlinks).

Many people here talk about redirects when they ask
Where have you obtained the info that redirects are a good idea? Can you cite your sources?
I'm just curious about this.