You often hear SEOs and content marketers talking about how backlinks matter. But it usually comes with a bunch of vague case studies too.
Here's a really tangible one from me.
In May this year, we had a major growth in backlinks – all earned legitimately obvs. Caused by this rare event – in case you were wondering.
We went from 198 backlinks to 313 within one month.
And it had a huge impact on our search performance.
Here's the graph showing the impact of May's boom in backlinks:

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