Is It Out of Scope? — SEO & marketing
Is redesigning business cards out of scope for a SEO / marketing project?
Yes. Print collateral design has no connection to organic search work and isn't covered by an SEO retainer under any framing.
Like other design requests that drift toward whichever agency contact the client talks to most, this one has essentially nothing to do with the SEO team's actual work — there's no overlap between print collateral design and organic search, not even the loose adjacency some other off-topic requests have.
Is it out of scope?
Yes, cleanly. There's no SEO angle to a business card redesign, and the retainer doesn't extend to graphic design work of any kind.
Clause typically implicated
Clause typically implicated
Exclusions clause→ — The retainer covers organic search work — print design falls outside it with no adjacent overlap to lean on.
Example contract wording
Example contract wording (illustrative, not legal advice)
This one's outside what we cover — business card design is a print/graphic design need, not an SEO one. I don't have much to add here beyond pointing you toward a designer.
How MarginFlow flags it
MarginFlow flags this outside_scope on SEO contracts with high confidence and a short explanation, since there's no plausible SEO framing to weigh — one of the more clear-cut classifications in the library.