Our Top 10 Game-Changing Link Building Case Studies That Prove What Works
Stewart
Co-Founder
Since we launched in 2016, we’ve helped hundreds of clients build high-quality, authoritative backlinks to their sites. These backlinks have allowed us to drive authority, boost clients' search engine rankings, and signal to Google that our client’s sites are trustworthy and credible.
We are a team of 43 dedicated link-building experts with over 250 years of experience among us. Drawing from this expertise, we develop tailored link-building strategies for our clients that drive massive results.
But we don’t just talk the talk! Below is a roundup of our top 10 case studies that prove that our powerful strategies can deliver the backlinks your business deserves.
🚀 Case Study One: 14,852% Organic Traffic Growth for an Employee Transparency Platform
Our client was a new employer review website that aimed to provide transparent opinions and information to employers.
This project was challenging because the career and job landscape is competitive, with major players and websites that have been around for decades.
When we started working with our client, they had zero backlinks and a low-authority site. After working with them for a period of 12 months, we were able to get their website to rank for a massive range of high-difficulty keywords, increase their organic traffic, and earn links from over 1,500 sites.
As a result, we helped them skyrocket their domain rating (DR) from three to 53.
📈 Monthly traffic increase: 14,582%
🔗 Links built: 551
⏰ Time span: 12 months
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🚀 Case Study Two: 6,098% Increase in Organic Traffic for Global Employee Relocation Service
Our client is an industry-leading corporate relocation service. When we worked with them, we took their traffic from nearly zero to over 23,144 monthly visitors.
Thanks to our content optimization efforts and building links in the careers and HR sectors, they are now ranking for some of the industry's most competitive and expensive keywords.
We ensured we only built links from sites with substantial organic traffic to safeguard against any future Google updates.
📈 Monthly traffic increase: 6,098%
🔗 Links built: 262
⏰ Time span: 24 months
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🚀 Case Study Three: 5,329% Organic Traffic Growth for Powerhouse Site
Our client’s website was outranked by over 10 other major competitors in their sector, including some well-established sites that had been active for years.
Initially, our strategy was focused on building a foundation of strong branded links to our client’s homepage over a few months to increase their site’s authority.
From there, we built more targeted links to landing pages that visitors would find for more specific searches.
As a result, our client’s website has seen a dramatic increase in organic traffic, going from around 5,000 organic visitors per month to over 300,000.
📈 Monthly traffic increase: 5,329%
🔗 Links built: 179
⏰ Time span: 28 months
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🚀 Case Study Four: We Helped A Children’s Educational Platform Go from Zero to 1.5k Monthly Visitors
Our client provides digital learning solutions for children, with programs designed to focus on lifelong learning while supporting diverse educational needs.
Their website had minimal traffic until we started building 27 high-quality backlinks per month for them.
Our challenge was that there were limited link opportunities as website owners in the education sector often ignored our outreach.
However, by targeting the right niches, guest posting, and securing link insertions, we built 135 backlinks for our client in just five months.
📈 Monthly traffic increase: 1,400%
🔗 Links built: 135
⏰ Time span: 5 months
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🚀 Cast Study Five: 1625% Organic Traffic Growth for a Law Firm
Our client is an intellectual property law firm based in Canada. We aimed to increase their organic traffic through a sustainable white hat link-building campaign, helping to drive highly specific clients to their site.
We analyzed key competitors, developed solid outreach campaigns, and built a combination of links for key service pages and supporting informational pages.
As a result, we’ve built links from over 250 domains and achieved number-one rankings for high-value commercial keywords in Canada.
📈 Monthly traffic increase: 1,625%%
🔗 Links built: 491
⏰ Time span: 48 months
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🚀 Case Study Six: 595% Organic Traffic Growth for Metalworking eCommerce Brand
Our client is an eCommerce company that sells high-ticket metalworking machinery. They asked for our assistance with boosting their site authority and increasing traffic.
They had significantly low authority, so we aimed to get as many high-value links as possible.
We targeted hyper-relevant niche sites, built links from broader category sites, and used HARO to secure high-authority homepage links.
At the peak of our campaign, the site received over 6,700 organic visitors, and it’s still receiving massive monthly increases.
📈 Monthly traffic increase: 595%
🔗 Links built: 287
⏰ Time span: 22 months
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🚀 Case Study Seven: 556% Increase in Traffic for a Database Performance Solution
This client is a software company that offers database performance solutions. The goal was to increase their traffic by identifying key pages across their site that would see a positive return on investment (ROI) from link building.
Our strategy included looking at pages and keywords that were underperforming but important to the client’s key business goals.
As a result, we improved the authority of these key pages and significantly increased the value of the site’s traffic.
📈 Monthly traffic increase: 556%
🔗 Links built: 410
⏰ Time span: 23 months
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🚀 Case Study Eight: We Helped This Design Software Provider Generate Organic Traffic to Service Pages
Our client provides a popular creative platform that allows users to edit photos, videos, and designs. The tool includes customizable templates AI-based features, and caters to everyone from casual creatives to professionals.
Although the company was a market leader, many of its service pages struggled to get traction against their competitors.
Our strategy was to reposition the client’s service pages as valuable tools and solutions, and we offered site owners content collaboration opportunities to secure links.
We were able to build over 1,800 backlinks, help our client rank for high-difficulty keywords, and grow their organic traffic to 6,463,410 monthly visitors.
📈 Monthly traffic increase: 204%
🔗 Links built: 1,840
⏰ Time span: 23 months
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🚀 Case Study Nine: How We Helped A FinTech Challenger Increase Traffic By +107.6% In 16 Months
This client is a fast-growing fintech company that was up against some of the biggest names in banking.
We secured links for keywords with high search intent, grew their authority by earning links for professional finance queries, and targeted high domain authority sites in the finance and tech sectors.
Google designates industries such as finance as your money or your life (YMYL) content. Websites like our client’s must meet strict standards, which meant our strategy had to build deep trust with the search engine.
We achieved this by generating content written by industry experts, articles that linked to expert authors’ online profiles, and targeting high-authority sites in the personal finance industry.
During their time with us, our client’s DR increased from 79 to 81, and we built over 15,000 backlinks in our initial period of work with them.
📈 Monthly traffic increase: 107.6%
🔗 Links built: 2,150
⏰ Time span: 16 months
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🚀 Case Study Ten: 563% Organic Traffic Growth for Linkbuilder.io
Of course, no roundup would be complete without including how we’ve built links for our own brand!
We have to practice what we preach, which is why we leveraged HARO, indirect link exchanges, guest posts, and broken link building to secure over 130 links in just two years.
Using these strategies has enabled us to achieve continuous traffic growth every year since we launched, with a whopping 62,102 website visitors per month by the end of 2024.
📈 Monthly traffic increase: 563%
🔗 Links built: 137
⏰ Time span: 24 months
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These case studies prove that strategic link-building isn’t just about numbers—it’s about driving real growth, boosting authority, and outperforming the competition.
Whether you’re starting from scratch or looking to dominate your niche, we have the experience and expertise to get you there.
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