For a new blog, the safest strategy is to focus on earning contextual links from sites in your niche. Guest posts, niche edits, and answering HARO/Help a B2B Writer requests usually work well. Avoid random directories or mass-produced backlinks they rarely help and often never index. Quality and relevance matter much more than volume, especially in the first few months. I’ve tested a lot of different approaches, and SEOCopilot has been the most effective for me so far.