I stopped building more links and ranking improved

Hey everyone,
Something strange happened on one of my projects. For months i was actively building link and tracking every movement. Then i got busy and stopped all link building for a while. Instead of dropping, several keywords actually moved up.
Has anyone else experienced this? Do you think some sites benefit from letting things settle rather than constantly pushing new signals?
Interested to hear what others have seen.

tbh i’ve seen this too, sometimes things just need time to settle after too much active link building

yeah seen this too, too many links too fast can look unnatural and google needs time to actually trust/process them

Its normal sometimes the effect take several months to see results from the previous work.