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CBD ecommerce · United States

Organic traffic recovered 67% from its January low.

CBD is one of the hardest niches to build links in, because most mainstream publishers will not touch the category at any price. We built placements through relationships rather than broker inventory, across a period when the whole category was under pressure.

Link building

The result

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

+67%

Organic traffic from the January low through to May

Ahrefs estimateJan 2026 (25,519) to May 2026 (42,693)
DR 71

Domain Rating

Ahrefs estimateMeasured 1 Aug 2026
9,051

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, so these are third-party estimates of traffic rather than measured sessions.

The window shown is the recovery from the January 2026 low through to May. Traffic has since eased back to roughly 33,600 as at August 2026, and the site remains well below its mid-2024 level of around 92,000. 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 CBDfx directly.

Links are one input among several. We do not claim credit for revenue, and other work on the site during this period was not ours.

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