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CBD ecommerce marketplace · United States

Organic traffic nearly tripled off the December floor.

A CBD marketplace carrying thousands of products in a category most publishers refuse to link to. The job was to rebuild authority through placements on sites that would actually accept the niche and still pass a quality bar.

Link building

The result

What the data shows, and where each figure came from.

+186%

Organic traffic from the December low through to May

Ahrefs estimateDec 2025 (3,699) to May 2026 (10,592)
DR 53

Domain Rating

Ahrefs estimateMeasured 1 Aug 2026
3,235

Live referring domains

Ahrefs estimateMeasured 1 Aug 2026

What else was running

The context you need to judge these numbers fairly.

Every figure here is an Ahrefs estimate, not the client's own analytics. We do not hold Search Console or GA4 access for this domain.

The window shown is the recovery from the December 2025 low through to May. Traffic has since eased back to roughly 7,500 as at August 2026, and the site remains below its 2024 level of around 15,800. We are showing a recovery, not an all-time high.

We delivered the link building on this account through a partner agency rather than contracting with CBD.co directly.

Links are one input among several, and other work on the site during this period was not ours.

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