Is It Out of Scope? — Web development
Is building backlinks for a new product line out of scope for a web development project?
Yes. Backlink outreach has no technical component the dev team would own, regardless of building the product-line pages themselves.
Similar to the design case, a dev client building out new product-line pages might ask about backlinks as if it's a natural extension of the build — it isn't; outreach and technical build are unrelated skill sets.
Is it out of scope?
Yes. Backlink building is outreach, unrelated to building the pages themselves.
Clause typically implicated
Clause typically implicated
Exclusions clause→ — The engagement covers development work — backlink outreach is excluded as an unrelated discipline.
Example contract wording
Example contract wording (illustrative, not legal advice)
Building backlinks isn't development work — that's outreach, outside this engagement. I can make sure the new pages are well-structured for SEO purposes, but getting other sites to link to them needs a different specialist.
How MarginFlow flags it
MarginFlow flags backlink-building requests outside_scope on development contracts, consistent with how it treats other outreach/SEO-discipline requests on this contract type.