The Link Building Book
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Planning your activity over the next few months

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Now that you’ve prioritized your link building techniques, you need to plan the time to actually implement them. This is particularly relevant for those of you who operate in an agency where your time may be split among a number of different campaigns. So planning is crucial.

From another point of view, it’s important because you need to set the right expectations with your client or boss about how long it may be before they can see some results. If you have sold a contract where the client is only paying you for one day out of a month, you may struggle to put together a big piece of interactive content without going over budget.

I can’t explain enough about the importance of having a plan. It helps you, sure. But clients love to see plans. It helps make them feel reassured that you know what you’re doing, even if the plan changes.

When it comes to planning, keep it as simple as possible. A simple Excel spreadsheet or Google Sheet that looks like this can do the job:

Simple can work fine. You can break each of these down into more concrete steps and actions, but, broadly, this can work fine and make sure you stay on track.

More advanced tools for project management

If the project is more complex, you may want to look at a project management tool instead such as Asana, Trello or Teamwork. No matter what though, don’t over complicate things and keep it as simple as you can.

Google Docs is another tool that can be used for project management. It can also be as simple or as advanced as you’d like but the key for me is that many people can collaborate on a single Google Doc.

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