Oh man, if only there was an easy answer to this question...

It's difficult to say based on the limited information you provided, as link generation SERIOUSLY differs between industries.

If you're in fitness, many blogs are run by inexperienced (in SEO obviously) people, so a well-written, friendly outreach message should be more than enough to get a few backlinks.

If you're in B2B, then you will only build backlinks through backlink transfers or partnership

If you're in Gambling or VPN, then it's just a budget-war. You either pay or backlinks or lose, cuz your competition WILL pay.

So, if I were to give you advice on what strategy should you choose, it would be:

1) Outreach is overused. You can't just read a Backlinko guidebook, copy an email template and expect results, because everyone is already doing that. Instead, develop your own style, make it sound like if you were writing to your friend, and be DIRECT.

2) Build real relationships with influencers and bloggers in your niche. I know, this is time consuming, but from all strategies available under the sun, this is possibly the best one. Engage with their content, write on their forums, share their post, comment under their stuff, ask them good questions, stroke their ego and just make them your friends.

3) Have a history of creating awesome content. You can pick the best link building campaign type, create the best plan, hire the best VA to find the best prospects, hire the best copy-writers to write the best copy and do a ton of other expensive shit, but if you try to get high-quality backlinks without a history of creating great content, you're wasting your time.

Create a ton of quality, linkable content (Guidebooks, Case Studies, Crowdsources Manuals, Checklists, List Posts, Industry Studies, Original Fresh Research, Infographics and Unique Tools) and THEN do all of those other things. People are much more likely to link to content that already is great.

Hope it helps.

Backlinks. The key to getting your website to rank high again are backlinks. Technical SEO is important, but It won't increase your ranking near as much as backlinks. Things like meta descriptions and title tags will really only influence your CTR.

So, create high quality content for your blog, build relationships with bloggers in your industry and take a stab at getting backlinks

I would suggest fixing the broken links or redirecting to actual, existing pages.

Then, think about focusing on writing for backlinks. This includes 1) using certain content frameworks (like guidebooks, industry studies or detailed checklists), 2) implementing share triggers (3000+ words, custom graphics, original research if possible, storytelling) 3) getting in touch with other bloggers through outreach, stroke their ego a little bit, and possibly get them to share your content

There ain't no ranking without backlinks. However, you seem to have started getting some since April 3rd

From three to six months apparently, even with good content and great SEO optimization and management. Clearscope made a good article about this.

But if you want to make it as fast as possible, then yes, Backlinks are the secret sauce. When it comes to backlinks, the quality is a lot more important than quantity. Bad backlinks can even have negative value - they can mess up your ranking. So:

1. Create content in your Linkreators in mind (aka. bloggers in your industry, cuz they're the ones who have the power & facilities to link to your website)
2. Use proven topics: basically research the hot topics, the 'new best thing' and write about it
3. Write in good content frameworks: these are Guidebooks, Checklists, Extended Lists, Industry Studies and Crowdsourced Manuals
4. Opt for medium-tail keywords: for example, 'content marketing' is too broad, and 'how to increase traffic to websites about paint colors' is too narrow. 'content promotion strategies' would be a medium-tail keyword
5. Use a lot of infographics to make people remember your content and use them in their articles

Hope it helps :)

Yes, plugins like Yoast SEO, All in One SEO and Rank Math are great tools for that. Each one has options for both creating and accessing the robots.txt file and XML.

And the problem with accessing the XML sitemap may be because your robots.txt is disallowing it, so make sure you put this:

Sitemap: /example.com/sitemap.xml

in your robots.txt file to help crawlers access the xml sitemap