Haha the Pinterest surprise is real, mine did something similar after a random repin spree and I panicked over monetization overnight. Went down the same rabbit hole with domain authority stuck at zero no matter how many guest posts I begged for. A friend running an outdoor gear blog pointed me toward Rule Your Rankings  when she hit the same wall, said it saved her months of cold emailing that led nowhere. Tried it mostly out of curiosity since manual outreach was eating my evenings, and the placements felt way more natural than the sketchy PBN stuff I almost fell for earlier.