CASE STUDY — SAAS MANAGEMENT PLATFORM
A blog-focused link building campaign, paired with a bigger content calendar on the client side, grew Zluri’s organic traffic by 544%.
By Sheikh Shadi Shuvo, Founder · Service: SaaS Link Building · Campaign length: 14 months · Updated October 2026
Zluri is a SaaS management platform that helps companies discover, manage and optimize their software stack.
They came to us with a frustrating problem. Despite real SEO investment, growth had flatlined at around 8,700 monthly organic visitors, and rankings for their most valuable keywords would not move.
Our starting audit estimated that about 95% of Zluri’s organic traffic landed on blog content, not on the homepage. Yet the existing link profile, 124 referring domains, barely supported those blog pages.
The plan was to point authority where the search demand already was.
About 90% of the 370 backlinks pointed at blog pages targeting Zluri’s top 20 commercial keywords. The other 10% used branded anchors pointing to the homepage, to keep the anchor profile balanced.
Every link came from a DR50–DR93 SaaS or industry site. About 90% were niche edits and 10% were guest posts.
Two link types were used. Niche edits are links added to articles that already exist on a publisher’s site; guest posts are new articles written for that site. In both cases the site’s editor reviewed the placement and could refuse it. Our fee covers the outreach work and any placement fee the publisher charges.
On our recommendation, Zluri’s team scaled to 30+ new SEO articles per month. More content meant more pages to link to, more internal linking paths and more keywords in play.
Where we could, we chose host articles that already had search traffic. More than 50 of the links sit in articles that were already getting meaningful organic traffic, so they can send referral visitors as well as authority.
| Domain | DR | Monthly organic traffic |
|---|---|---|
| hubspot.com | 93 | 9,376,873 |
| atlassian.com | 92 | 5,958,741 |
| opencart.com | 92 | 35,643 |
| wpastra.com | 92 | 101,008 |
| zoho.com | 91 | 8,268,798 |
| fortune.com | 91 | 2,558,377 |
| aol.com | 91 | 11,967,352 |
| entrepreneur.com | 91 | 357,038 |
| envato.com | 91 | 3,918,964 |
| webex.com | 91 | 659,206 |
| buzzsprout.com | 91 | 152,034 |
| flippingbook.com | 91 | 105,987 |
DR and monthly organic traffic are Ahrefs estimates for each whole domain, as listed when this case study was published in July 2026. They change over time.
The plateau broke in the first month, and traffic kept rising for the rest of the 14-month campaign.
Traffic, ranking-keyword, Domain Rating and referring-domain figures are Ahrefs estimates, measured at campaign start and end. Ahrefs traffic is a modelled estimate of organic visits, not the client’s own analytics, so treat the numbers as directional.
This campaign used our SaaS link building service. Package and per-link prices are on the pricing page. More results:
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