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Thanks for the responses. A lot of my clients are very successful in their social media efforts across the likes of Facebook and Twitter, however many are struggling to see the benefits of Google+. It's hard not to regularly hear about Facebook and Twitter throughout the media and in general conversation, however you don't often hear about Google+, at least not in comparison to Facebook and Twitter. So my clients naturally question it, and naturally assume that implications for rankings is involved as a reason for using it, given it's a network created by the leading search engine. I definitely agree that clients shouldn't use a social media channel purely for SEO, but when you tell clients to ignore or not approach it with SEO implications in mind, it's hard to see the point of Google+ compared to the likes of Facebook and Twitter. Furthermore almost every client I have has complained at the confusion and complexity of Google+ (and I don't blame them!), in particular with having multiple Google+ pages. Some of my clients for example have a Google+ profile associated to them as an individual, then a brand page, and then a local page! They may all be linked, but it still leaves me wondering whether they should be posting to all three. I think the entire Google+ model, quite frankly, is flawed and confusing. Hence why when you take SEO benefit out of the equation, it makes it very hard to persuade clients as to the benefits of bothering with it at all, if even there is any.

What are people's thoughts on posting between a Google+ profile page, and then an associated brand page? I have a client who has both, and they're not sure whether they should be posting to both or not, and if yes, should the content they post be different? My client isn't sure, and quite frankly neither am I! On a similar note, what are people's up to date thoughts on encouraging clients to use Google+? Especially in light of Google recently removing authorship photos and bylines from organic search? A lot of my clients are reluctant to use Google+ as they feel that it is largely US based - unless of course there is SEO benefit to using Google+? I'd be interested to know whether people have experienced first-hand any significant SEO benefit in themselves or clients actively using Google+.

Hi Jason, yes it does become increasingly difficult to monitor keywords on a page across a larger site. Thanks for your insights and thoughts on this topic.

Can anyone advise on the best approach please for setting up Google Analytics goal tracking for enquiry forms which are opened and posted using AJAX, all without any URL changes? I could use an onclick Goal event to track clicks for the Submit button, but then this would also count those who might've had a validation issue when clicking the button. To me it seems the ideal approach is to tweak the setup of the forms to make it post to a separate URL for the success/thank you message - that way I can then track form submission volumes effectively in GA Goals. Before I go down this rather time consuming route (as there are amy forms that would require this), does anyone have any alternative suggestions please?

Thanks for clarifying Jason. My reasoning behind finding some sort of tool to provide any advice or recommendations per page or sitewide in terms of keyword density is for when working in particular with larger websites and/or where the client is in large part adding/editing a lot of content themselves via the CMS. The benefit of such a tool would be to contribute towards informing and educating the client as to whether they are using a keyword too much, or not enough within their content. Also from the clients perspective, who generally view their content visually as opposed to investigating the source code, might have difficulty identifying what the H1's and H2's are across their site. Furthermore, such a tool would save time on having to identify opportunities manually, so that more time could be spent on actually implementing any revisions required.

Hi Jason, what do you mean? I'm not sure what your comment is in response to.

Just wondering what people use, or could recommend for checking keyword density on a page, or across a website? I know there are lot of tools out there that generally advise 5-7% for use of a keyword on a page (correct me if I'm wrong!), but I'm looking for any tools which are a little more intuitive for detecting underuse or overuse of a keyword.

Hi, I have a website which is built bespoke i.e. not WordPress or any off-the-shelf software. The enquiry forms are getting an amount of spam. There is anti-spam prevention in place which I expect is blocking most of it, however there is still some coming through. Sometimes it's one a day and or one every few days. Is there any off-the-shelf form out there which would anyone can recommend as being the best for eliminating 99% of spam? Even if it is a paid solution.

Hi Barry. I agree the seo@companyname.com or something @companyname.com would look more professional. But what do you mean by making sure this has "the feature of gmail"? Is there a feature about Gmail that is advanteagous for link building on behalf of a client? Why do you say Gmail "useless" for link building compared to using Outlook or Yahoo?

Ha ha, this sounds soooo familiar! Have to say I'm in favour of requesting each client to set me up a standalone mailbox (e.g. myname@clientwebsite.com). That way: 1. Spam/marketing emails are isolated to this email 2. I know that all emails to this account are for the business listing specific to the client 3. I can setup, verify and manage listings using this email and without having to hassle the client 4. The email makes me look part of the company (and not some 3rd party person)...provided the client is happy for me to act on their behalf in this manner 5. With a standalone mailbox for each client, this avoids any duplicate email registration issues when setting up listings for my client base Only drawback with the above that I can foresee, and as you pointed out, is that not all clients will permit granting me a mailbox associated with their website, and/or the ability to act on their behalf in this manner. Some for example might have an IT company that would fall of the chair at the mere thought of it!

I thought about a gmail account for all of them, however it might be hard to keep track of which emails relate to which business listings. And if you try to register with the same email for each business, a lot of the directory sites would likely prevent you from creating multiple listings using the same email (most directory sites I've encountered don't allow multiple listings under one account.

Hi, I'd be keen to know what people's approaches are for link building on behalf of a client, for example: Do you advise the client on link building, and make recommendations, but then leave the actual requests and submissions to them, or ...do you request and acquire links on behalf of the client... ...if yes, do you use your own email address/contact details, the client's or do you setup a standalone mailbox/email/contact details specifically for the client's link building purposes As an example, I want to submit my client websites to credible business websites like yelp.com, however I want to minimise spam, promo and sales calls/emails for the client, and so I'm considering a separate mailbox on behalf of the client, so that I can do any/all link building efforts specifically via this mailbox. However, this then could pose an issue as some clients won't feel comfortable setting up a mailbox for me to have access to, say for the purposes of security. So what's your approach? How do you manage and acquire new links for your client websites?

I'm looking to detect the location of a website visitor (presumably by IP), and then whatever their detected country is, I want this to then be the selected option within a <select> dropdown when specifying their Country of Residence. Save them having to choose it from the long list of country options! See visual below. Does anyone have any ideas/recommendations please on any plugins that would enable this?

Can any please point me in the right direction - I'm looking for a demo/snippet/etc. for multiple <select> dropdowns in which one dropdown is disabled until a certain option has been chosen from the previous. Also the options in the 2nd dropdown will be different depending on what was selected in the 1st dropdown. I hope this makes sense?! If anyone knows please of any script/demo/etc. that does this which I can use, that'd be great.

Can anyone please advise, or point me in the right direction please in knowing what is the legal and correct approach for enewsletter subscriptions on a website, for example: Can a business subscribe and send out enewsletters to a customer that has enquiried and/or purchased from the website? Can businesses only legally send marketing/promo emails out if the customer has specifically requested them? Can the website legally decide for the customer to specify if they want to opt out, and otherwise opt them in by default? Or does the customer HAVE to opt-in in order for marketing/promo emails to be sent to them? It seems there is a big grey area with this, and so many websites out there, even the big ones, vary in their approach. More often than not, I find I get subscribed automatically just by enquiring or ordering, regardless of whether or not I had the option at the time to opt-in or out. Any insight on the matter would be most appreciated. Thank you.