Analytics question

[freebetsfreetips]

Hi

On GA, checking the stats for organic searches, the vast majority are listed as Keyword: (not provided). Does anyone know what/why that is?

Cheers
Bob


edit - done a little looking around via a well-known search engine and got some answers but if anyone has anything to add would still be appreciated. Ta.

[AceOdds]

Hi freebetsfreetips,

It means the user was signed in to google when they clicked the search result.

Google says it hides this information for user privacy reasons.

http://analytics.blogspot.co.uk/2011...accessing.html

[F-L-C]

It sucks and there is nothing much you can do about it! I miss seeing all the keywords

[thebookiesoffers]

Hi

On GA, checking the stats for organic searches, the vast majority are listed as Keyword: (not provided). Does anyone know what/why that is?

Cheers
Bob


edit - done a little looking around via a well-known search engine and got some answers but if anyone has anything to add would still be appreciated. Ta.

often wondered that myself, and the answer is now below. cheers

[freebetsfreetips]

Right, cheers. Have seen a few suggestions for ways round it but none seem that good. So there just isn't a way round it then? As Google continues to get more and more logged in users, which seems fairly likely, the stats are going to become less and less useful. Feckers.

[sharmawebsolution]

Hi Bob,
Organic searches are the results of the search engine spiders crawling and indexing the web. When someone visits a search engine and searches
for something they are given a list of sites. Some are paid advertisements and some are "organic" search results.

[F-L-C]

Right, cheers. Have seen a few suggestions for ways round it but none seem that good. So there just isn't a way round it then? As Google continues to get more and more logged in users, which seems fairly likely, the stats are going to become less and less useful. Feckers.

I remember when they first changed it, everyone was trying to think of 'ways round it' but I am yet to read a decent one

[baldidiot]

Unfortunately there's no way around it as the information isn't passed in the header. Annoying, right?!

You can try and have a guess based on the landing page, but that's about it.

[casinorecommender]

There is a tactic for removing that phrase and making the keywords visible but you have to again Google to over-Google it !