I tend to disagree however you can be punished for back linking by link building you are best off using a SEO optimizing tool to break links with the harmful back links
https://monitorbacklinks.com/seo-too...cklink-checker
Sites with great content and no back links do not receive more traffic from google than other pages that maybe their best intentions but you will have splash pages with more hits than content pages. Keep building those links is still my advise you may wish to tune them up with software.