How can we know the Keywords visitors use to land on our website through search engines?

by saadi123

Posted: 7 years ago 16 replies

I may be a bit late on this but I realized that Google has ceased providing information about the keywords that organic visitors use to eventually land on our website in Google Analytics.

So I want to know what are the free alternatives to get this information?

Thank you.

#engines #keywords #land #search #visitors #website

yukon Banned 7 years ago

You won't be able to get all the keywords because Google Search uses https to block some traffic/keywords.

I use an old Wordpress plugin (STT2) on my admin pages that I've edited which shows me a lot of the keywords my Google traffic used to land on my public pages. I've maxed the plugin out at 2,500 keywords (Google traffic) so the Wordpress MySQL database doesn't get bloated.

Again, I don't get to see every single keyword but 2,500 keywords per domain keeps me busy.
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- saadi123 7 years ago
  
  Hmmm...! STT2 then. And what if the blog/website is not powered by Wordpress?
  
  Thanks for the reply BTW.
  
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Arvind Kumar 7 years ago

You can find the list of keywords in google webmaster tool, where it will share the list of keywords getting traffic for your blog...just visit search traffic-search analytics, you will get all the details their
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- saadi123 7 years ago
  
  Google Webmaster tool...!? Really. I didn't know that.
  
  Thanks for letting me know. I'll definitely check that.
  
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  Stephan Eijer 7 years ago
  
  Not all info is shown there, stats are way too low
  
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fratt55 7 years ago

Hey there

great question

the answer is ... google keyword planner tool created for people like u and i to answer this question
so
go to google keyword planner then TYPE
in your :"keyword"
then
hit keyword ideas
The search engine will use all or one of those keyword ideas to visit the website

ok
talk soon
sam f
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- saadi123 7 years ago
  
  Thanks for the reply however, I feel may be I didn't make myself clear in the question:
  
  What I wanted to know that I could be able to see that what keyword a particular user/visitor used to land on my website. Didn't mean to ask how to generate keyword ideas. Anyways, thanks for your input.
  
  I appreaciate it.
  
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paulgl 7 years ago

You can't find them from google, and anyone that says you can is just out of it. They are seriously in need of an update.

Anyway, you have to use logic and reason as to how they got there.

What pages are they going to via google?
What is the title of the page?
What is the h1? h2?
What words have you bolded?

It's not really a secret if you know what google uses.

Paul
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- yukon Banned 7 years ago
  
  Originally Posted by paulgl
  
  You can't find them from google...
  
  Not entirely true.
  
  Google does not use https on 100% of their traffic. It's more like they block 75% (ballpark) of their traffic.
  
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  paulgl 7 years ago
  
  Originally Posted by yukon
  
  Not entirely true.
  
  Google does not use https on 100% of their traffic. It's more like they block 75% (ballpark) of their traffic.
  
  Sure, they block "only" 75%.....but look at the other 25%.
  
  1) Why would you rely on 25% of data?
  2) Since google would skew the results of that 25% with location, time, date, etc. etc. and of course, etc., you are maybe down to about 5% of truly "bare bones organic" traffic.
  
  So one is going to put all their effort into shmoozing 5 percent of traffic?
  
  Even if that were not true, you still are working with only 25% of data...
  
  And since the overwhelming majority of people coming to you from google are hidden....
  
  What purpose would that even serve?
  
  There is no true plain jane pure organic search anymore, except by seo wannabes who are trying to see where they rank....using a method that the vast majority of google users are not even a part.
  
  Paul
  
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hynds

7 years ago

You can check at Google Analytics, at acquisition section -> Search Console -> Query

Or you can check directly at Search Console -> Search Traffic -> Search Analytics

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paulgl

7 years ago

Originally Posted by hynds

You can check at Google Analytics, at acquisition section -> Search Console -> Query

Or you can check directly at Search Console -> Search Traffic -> Search Analytics

Completely useless info, and an exercise in futility.

Google results are encrypted for just about everyone now. You will get shinola from google.

And for good reason.

Organic search results are basically nonexistent in 2017, and have been for half a decade.

Google uses time, date, news, location, login, personal habits, etc. to give results to searchers.

It would make no sense to give you a search term without that data, and since google aint giving you that data (or anyone else) they have decided to make those results a secret.

The best you can do is to find what pages google is sending people to, and do some deductive reasoning.

I did forget to mention one more thing: Your description.

I am not a fan of boondoggling a description, so if you have a concise one, you might be shouting, "Bingo!"

Paul

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dave_hermansen 7 years ago

I think it is more like OVER 90% of the traffic data is blocked by Google, but regardless, you won't find much usable data from Search Console or Google Analytics other than what "paulgl" suggested - which is making educated guesses based upon the data you actually CAN see.

You CAN actually see all of the keywords people are using if you are running ad campaigns. You can see all of the search terms people have used to land on the results page where your ads appeared, see all of the search terms that led to people landing on your website and, of course, see all of the search terms that led to a conversion (keeping in mind that only 30% of the time, people buy what they clicked on).

You can also use Bing Webmaster Tools, which DOES show all of the search term data and multiply that number by 4 to guess at what it probably is from Google.
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Web Settler 7 years ago

Register your website on webmaster tools there you will be able to view your search engine rankings, clicks, and search queries
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- saadi123 7 years ago
  
  Thanks for the info. It did work to some extent however, it does not give you the information that which visitor used which keyword to access your web. Instead, it shows the list of keywords on which your website is showing up in the SERP.
  
  Any ways, that's a lot of help.
  
  Thanks.
  
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The Leader 7 years ago

I think its pretty sneaky for google not to show instant search results so you can see the search words that bought someone to you site. Google Webmaster Tools will still give you that information just not live.
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