Trying to increase my vocabulary and one of the methods I am using is flash cards. My question is, should I look up the Kanji for each word and put that on the card or start with the phonetic pronunciation spelling in hiragana first and just let the Kanji get linked to the pronunciation as I work on Kanji?
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I only mark as “good” in Anki if I got right both the spelling and meaning
Directly do kanji. A lot of kanji can be read exactly the same way, so your plan to later “link kanji to the pronunciation” is not going to be as easy as you might think. Japanese in general has a huge number of homophones (entire words with identical kana spelling). You will basically have to go back and learn the same words again, this time with kanji.
I recommend kanji without the reading given alongside. Helps learn the kanji and the pronunciation at the same time
Get your vocabulary from native content, and drill however it appears in the subtitles. There are plenty of words that have kanji yet they are more likely to be seen as hiragana. And you won’t know unless you see it being used by a native.