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If you are anything like me, once you start diving into a project, it can be difficult to stop. Doing SEO feels like dealing with a never-ending set of tasks. Setting boundaries is essential for managing expectations and caring for your well-being.
When I tell people what I do, they often envisage me tapping away at the keyboard into the early morning hours, pizza boxes and half-drunk mugs of coffee littered around me. Owls are hooting, bats are swooping, and a dim light barely shows the outline of the dark bags under my eyes.
There is a perception that anyone working in this world doesn’t really do anything except work. In reality, it can sometimes feel like that. We love what we do, and often, our hobbies include, well, SEO. (Show me an SEO, and I’ll show you a side hustle!)
Regardless of the extracurricular, having boundaries at work is vital, even more so for an almost never-ending role. So how do you do it?
Setting boundaries with colleagues and clients
There are things you can do from the moment you work with a new client or on a new project.
It’s always best to start setting boundaries straight away because, as time goes on, it can be challenging to reset expectations.
Make it clear that SEO is a long-term strategy. This must be understood from the outset to ensure expectations are set immediately.
Education is key here, helping colleagues and clients alike to understand that significant changes in search rankings and organic traffic are the result of consistent effort over time.