Hi @Stephanie Wilson ,
Have a try to follow that site, as per my experience, it will show up on "Following" and "Frequent sites" section after then. Also, you can ask for help from the SharePoint Onilne administrator or M365 global administrator to add featured links to the SharePoint start page.
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