Don’t burn your budget on outreach before your site is actually ready to rank....

https://seo.edu.rs/blog/the-reality-of-link-building-roi-why-your-6-12-month-projections-fail-11050

Don’t burn your budget on outreach before your site is actually ready to rank. You need a solid technical foundation—crawlability, clean internal linking, and stable Core Web Vitals—to make those backlinks count