CBD backlinks are contextual links from publishers that have agreed to a hemp or cannabidiol commercial URL — not “health content with a product link.” Search ads, social ads, and a large share of editorial calendars treat hemp-derived cannabidiol as a restricted category. Remaining vendors either run farm blogs or pretend a wellness guest post will survive legal review. We enquire, we ask the publisher, we quote. There is no public DR menu. Typical TAT about two weeks when hosts cooperate; specialised hemp can overrun because refusals are common. Replacement if the link drops.
How CBD SEO links actually get placed — and refused →
Hemp publisher outreach, not a wellness content mill
A CBD backlink on this desk is a contextual link from a live page whose publisher has agreed to a hemp or cannabidiol commercial URL. That agreement is narrower than “health and wellness.” Many hosts will take magnesium or protein and will still refuse CBD because their ad account, their medical disclaimer policy, or their insurer treats cannabinoids as a drug claim waiting to happen.
Advertising restrictions are the reason the inventory collapsed. Google Ads and Meta restrict or ban a wide range of CBD promotion depending on product, claims, and country. Publishers who depend on those networks copy the restriction into their contributor guidelines. Directories and guest-post marketplaces copy it again. What is left on the open market is often expired “cbd review” blogs created to sell links, which is the opposite of a profile you want next to a regulated product.
We do not give medical or regulatory advice. We will not write that CBD treats a disease. We will not pretend THC-containing products are identical to hemp-derived CBD isolate. If your catalogue mixes ingestibles, topicals, pet products, and vapes, say so — those are different publisher conversations, and in some geos they are different laws. Our job is placements, QC, and replacements, not a certificate of compliance.
Worldwide Backlinks was founded in 2022 in Richmond, Victoria. 10,000+ backlinks placed, 15+ languages, 40+ countries, 100% manual outreach. DataForSEO for QC. Ahrefs and Semrush on reports as metrics only. ~500 owned sites exist in the company; they are not a hemp PBN we use to dodge the fact that independent publishers are scarce. CBD is quoted because the yes-list does not support a public price grid.
Who this hemp page is written for
CBD and hemp brands
Retailers and manufacturers who need referring domains that look like publications, not a cluster of cannabinoid review sites registered in the same month.
Agencies with one client in hemp
You can fulfil the rest of the book on English guest posts. This client needs a specialist enquire. White-label reports are available once we quote.
In-house SEO under advertising pressure
If paid social and search are already constrained, organic citations from hosts that still allow hemp matter more — provided those hosts are real.
From enquire to a hemp URL a publisher will keep
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Product, geo, and claim discipline
Tell us what is on the landing page and where you sell. We need to know if copy must stay in “hemp extract” language, avoid ingestible claims, or stay out of a country entirely. Guest articles do not include a clinical study we cannot cite.
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Find hosts that still take hemp
That list is shorter than it was in 2019. We ask. A site that took CBD three years ago may have banned it after an ad-account warning. Marketplace checkboxes are how you buy a takedown.
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Write inside the host’s policy, then QC
Unique article, manual outreach. DataForSEO before approval. If the outbound neighbourhood is already a CBD farm, we pass — even when the DR looks convenient.
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Live report and replacement
Typical TAT about two weeks when the publisher set cooperates; 20-day maximum on standard work. Specialised hemp can overrun because refusals are common. If a placed link drops, we replace it.
What an Enquire Now CBD campaign includes once quoted
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Quoted fee — not English GP ($125–$450) and not iGaming
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Manual outreach to publishers that currently accept hemp/CBD URLs
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Copy that will not fabricate medical claims
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DataForSEO QC; Ahrefs/Semrush metrics on the delivery report
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Live URL + DR / traffic / anchor
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Replacement if the link drops
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No monthly minimum
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In-language outreach if the ranking page is not English (15+ languages on the wider desk)
The advertising wall, in practical publisher terms
When a publication’s revenue is display ads, a single CBD outbound can be enough for the network to reclassify the site. Editors therefore default to no. Marketplaces default to no. That is rational. It is also why a vendor who still has “unlimited CBD DR50” in a shopping cart is not buying the same thing you think they are.
Country rules are not one bucket. A US hemp brand, a Canadian cannabis-adjacent brand, and an Australian scheduled-vs-hemp conversation are different briefs. We are an Australian company (Building 1, 658 Church Street, Richmond VIC 3121) and we will not pretend TGA, FDA, or EU novel-food questions are a line of copy we can solve. We will match the pitch to the destination you actually operate.
Directories that still list CBD exist; many are paid dumps. Directory submissions as a service are a separate enquire on this site, not a shortcut around publisher outreach. If the brief is “get us listed in 200 hemp directories,” say that plainly so we can refuse the spam version.