A Gmail Productivity Linkbuilder configuration (with email awareness from 4 Linkbuilders Industry)

Link building is difficult because we are all looking for ways to make the process less painful and more effective our outreach. I constantly struggled with how to make my work more effective when working in-house, and since his arrival in distilled, I had to become even more of a productivity ninja to maintain the rapid pace of an agency.

The purpose of the message today is to teach you some ways to ninja that will significantly increase the speed of sending e-link building, and help provide a context for them with the aim to increase your answer.

A quick note: This advice I'm showing now apply to people who use Gmail as their email provider. There are probably similar tools available for other programs like Outlook. So take the principles applied here, their suits your needs, and then share the knowledge!

Gmail Shortcut 
Gmail shortcuts is the best friend of a productivity ninja linkbuilder or email. Once activated in Labs, you have a whole host of shortcuts to use so you never have to touch your mouse, unless you need to edit the text or something like inserting a canned response (see below). You'll find that shortcuts tend to eliminate many unnecessary steps, and when used in combination with other tools mentioned, you can greatly speed up your processing time messaging.


The most important shortcuts are, in my opinion:

C - compose a new message
E - archive a message
G then I - return to inbox from a message
R - reply to a message
A - reply all to a message
F - forward the message
J - when in your inbox, move to the next message
K - when in your inbox, move to the previous message
X - when in your inbox, mark an email. Most useful when processing out emails that don't require any attention (such as daily emails).


You should think about shortcuts as "revenues" of all kinds. Use them in combination, like Tab + Enter to send, J + X + E for archiving messages in your Inbox, or R + message + enter + tab to respond to a message. The chain, and you will be more impressive.

Canned Responses

Canned answers are something that our sales in New York Exec Ron Garrett has recently introduced me. Another tool Labs, you can save email templates to use for that you are not always cut and paste from one source to another, which might make a mistake.

As you can see in the picture below, it installs a "right answer remains" button below the Subject field. This is where you can save drafts of canned answers for quick access.

Here is how a canned e-mail might look like if I was sending an email to Tom Critchlow:

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