Google’s “Not Provided” Referrals Growing In Percentage?

[snakeair]

This change just stink's. It was so easy to check my stat's without having to do extra work to get the real details. Check out this blog post if you have a few minutes.

Last month, Google announced that it would begin encrypting search queries with SSL (Secure Sockets Layer) as the default experience at Google.com for users who are logged in to their Google accounts.

As a result, there is a lot data that was once available in Google Analytics for webmasters is now hidden. “When a signed in user visits your site from an organic Google search, all web analytics services, including Google Analytics, will continue to recognize the visit as Google ‘organic’ search, but will no longer report the query terms that the user searched on to reach your site,” said Amy Chang on the Google Analytics blog. “Keep in mind that the change will affect only a minority of your traffic. You will continue to...

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[bogs]

hmm, i still can't think of any reason why they don't want to count those query terms. Still important..