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Trying to figure out backlinks

Hi everyone,

I have a website that I just created a little over a month ago and I've been working on my SEO. I've ran an audit scan and I'm scoring 88% overall, but one very important factor I seem to be missing is backlinks. My audit says I only have a few backlinks and 1 referring domain. I am by far not an SEO expert, I'm just an accountant trying to figure out SEO on my own and 3 weeks ago I never even heard of a backlink. I managed to bring my backlinks score up a whole 5 percentage points after doing several things in an attempt to get backlinks, but I'm still scoring poorly in that area at 30% and I'm honestly not sure what I did to get those added percentage points. No amount of research has helped me figure out the backlinks. I have my website linked to several places...Facebook, LinkedIn, reddit, my business YouTube page, yelp, Google business profile, Bing places, webwiki, thumbtack, crunchbase...I am also waiting for BBB to approve my listing request and one other, I believe it was yellow pages. I believe I read somewhere that yelp doesn't have dofollow links but I don't know about the others. Am I missing something? Am I doing this wrong? Is this even the right thread to ask this question?

Thanks in advance for any advice. And please, no attempts to sell me services for this. Just looking for a little advice from others who had success figuring it out.

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