
CBD Link Building
CBD SEO Statistics (2026): Original Data From 100 Keywords and 46 Page-One Results
Most CBD SEO statistics pages recycle the same market-size numbers. And it's quite obvious. You can't do a fresh research everytime. It takes real…
Author · Founder, CBDSEOXperts
Khushboo Gairola founded CBDSEOXperts in 2022 to do SEO only for cannabinoid brands. The agency has since worked with 35 CBD, hemp, cannabis and kratom brands, and Khushboo writes its research, its guides and its case studies.
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About
Founder of CBDSEOXperts, an SEO and link building agency for CBD, hemp, cannabis and kratom brands.
Khushboo has a B.Tech in Electronics and Communications, which she completed in 2020. She then worked in cannabis SEO, and in 2022 she founded CBDSEOXperts.
Khushboo leads every strategy call and reviews every free audit herself, with a written reply within 24 hours. The agency's clients include Exhale Wellness, BudPop and GoldenMonk.
She writes the research on the CBDSEOXperts blog, on link building, AI search, digital PR and cannabis SEO, and the agency's case studies are published under her name.
Khushboo also writes as Sara Sharma in our outreach emails.
She works from the CBDSEOXperts headquarters in Dehradun, India, with Anamika Bagwari, Head of Link Building, and Archana Kala, Head of Content. Meet the team or read about CBDSEOXperts.
Expertise
The services Khushboo leads at CBDSEOXperts. Each one is sold on its own or as part of an SEO retainer; see packages and prices.
Editorial links from real publishers that accept cannabinoid brands. See CBD link building
Get cited in ChatGPT, Perplexity, Gemini and Google AI Overviews. See CBD AI SEO
Placements in "best of" lists on DR 50+ publishers. See cannabis listicles
Coverage in cannabis-friendly trade and consumer press. See digital PR for CBD
Map-pack visibility and Google Business Profile recovery. See CBD local SEO
Crawl, speed, schema and indexation fixes for store platforms. See CBD technical SEO
Compliant category, product and blog content that ranks. See CBD content writing
Posts
Research and guides on CBD and cannabis SEO, newest first. All topics are on the blog.

CBD Link Building
Most CBD SEO statistics pages recycle the same market-size numbers. And it's quite obvious. You can't do a fresh research everytime. It takes real…

Cannabis SEO
Marijuana businesses run with one hand tied behind their back. Google Ads won't take your money. Meta bans your products. Billboards face state limits…

Digital PR
CBD has a trust problem. In a 2026 survey, 22% of people said they don't trust CBD products, even though 68% of users say…

CBD Link Building
HARO died, changed owners, and came back to life while most SEO guides weren't looking. Half the articles ranking for this topic still tell…

CBD Link Building
Most cannabis keyword lists online are old. The top-ranking one right now still says "2024" in its headings and doesn't show a single search…

Cannabis SEO
Every growth channel in cannabis has a wall around it. Google Ads says no. Meta says no. Many publishers say no. And the marketplaces…

Digital PR
Most "top cannabis blogs" lists have a dirty secret: they recommend dead sites. We checked 30 blogs from popular roundups against live Ahrefs data…

Listicles
Here's what we found when we fact-checked this article before writing it: CBD media is a graveyard. We ran 26 well-known CBD sites through…

CBD Link Building
Here is a fact that should give you hope. The page that ranks #1 on Google for "cbd link building" has zero backlinks pointing…
Case studies
Link building studies with figures from Ahrefs Site Explorer: the first month against the last, the links built and, where the client allows, the budget. See all case studies.
Started at domain rating 0, with about 100 sites linking to it. Read the Exhale Wellness case study
An established store, already with 1,216 referring domains and 216 page-one keywords. Read the BudPop case study
Started at domain rating 9, up against seed banks rated 70 and higher. Read the Hypno Seeds case study
Links went to pages already ranking 11 to 50, for a store with 414 page-one keywords. Read the GoldenMonk case study
Started with about 1,000 monthly visits and no referring domains. Name withheld at the client's request. Read the Cannabis retail case study
Book a call
Tell Khushboo what you sell and where your site stands, and she'll tell you which service fits and what it costs. Pick a time that suits you.
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Rather email? sara@cbdseoxperts.com or khushboo@cbdseoxperts.com